Job Details

Job Description

About The Role

The Production Manager will be responsible for safety, quality, people management, area layout, and process control. Responsible for providing leadership and direction to assigned department(s), product line(s), and teams to meet production goals and meet customer specifications.

Responsibilities

Safety

• Adheres & manages all safety rules and regulations to assure a safe environment for all employees.
• Verifies that all assigned personnel have received all required safety training.
• Assures assigned personnel maintain a neat, orderly, and safe condition by deploying 5S.
• Participate in safety audits and incident reporting.

Quality

• Ensures personnel are trained to company quality standards and audits to the standard.
• Along with Engineering, Quality Control, and Service Dept, ensures that products meet company standards and are built to drawings or specifications using approved methods.
  
  • Follows all Engineering and Manufacturing memos.
  • Follows all routings set-up for parts.
  • Follows all cut sheets.
  • Consults with the Plant Manager and/or Quality Manager when any deviation is deemed necessary.

Production Areas

• Manages personnel in the assigned area.
• Assigns personnel to specific areas or projects.
• Plans production throughput to meet/exceed the production schedule in assigned area.
• Ensures work history file are being properly maintained.
• Participates in development and implementation of operational excellence best practices and elimination of material waste and inefficiencies.
• Establishes and maintains Continuous Improvement culture and practices for assigned Production Departments
• Ensures that the personnel have the required instruction, tools, parts, prints, etc.
• Responsible for approving Kronos and auditing to ensure teams are tracking time properly.
• Monitors production hours in assigned areas and helps personnel to meet/exceed expectations.
• Maintains excellent communication with all departments at all levels to ensure that products and processes meet company standards of Quality, Safety, Cost and Delivery
• Uniformly enforces and acts as a role model in the adherence to company rules, policies and procedures set forth by the company handbook and management.
• Continually evaluates the work of personnel in area.
• Prepares performance evaluations of personnel by qualifying and quantifying the skills, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses of people in the assigned area of responsibility.
• Keeps open lines of communication between all areas of the shop to help alleviate potential problems.
• Attend continuing education as directed by the company.
• Identify all critical type positions and ensure backup personnel is in place; send personnel for training as necessary and see backup personnel is rotated in position to maintain skills.
• Participate in interviewing potential candidates as needed.
• Performs additional tasks appropriate to the job as assigned by management i.e., but not limited to Lean Projects, Lean Enterprise Initiatives, and Cost Reduction Projects.

Performance Measurements

• Assures conformance to Personnel and Safety policies and procedures.
• Responsible for products meeting Trail King's quality, efficiency standards, and schedules

Candidate Requirements

Highschool diploma with minimum of 5 years manufacturing experience. 3-5 years supervisory experience preferred. Ability to lead and motivate others, develop talent for future success. Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to work with all levels of management and staff. Open minded and possess the skills to research and weigh all facts before coming to conclusions or making decisions. Strong problem solving and conflict-resolution capabilities. Self-motivated and an independent worker. Possess strong organizational and planning skills. Willing and able to work a flexible schedule, including all shifts, to cover any assigned work area. Familiar with Lean Enterprise/Manufacturing concepts. Experience with Microsoft Office products (Outlook/Word/Excel/etc.)

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employee is required to stand; walk; sit; climb; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. At times, must use ladders to work at heights of up to 12 feet.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to changes in temperature and humidity, exposure to dust, fumes and is near moving machinery.