International manufacture with a location in Newberry SC is looking to add a seasoned Production Manager. The Production Manager directs and supervises shift operations with overall responsibilities for safety, quality, delivery, and cost to meet designated production schedules.
Duties/Responsibilities:
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Manages the safety, quality, delivery, and cost of production.
- Ensure company and plant safety procedures are followed and enforced.
- Coordinate activities through labor and resource planning to ensure objectives are accomplished in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner.
- Provide leadership and training to shift supervisors as required to accomplish the production shift goals and objectives.
- Participates in plant and other meetings.
- Responsible for various functions such as assisting in taking periodic physical inventory.
- Encourage and promote a teamwork environment.
- Develops production schedules for area of responsibility, coordinates activity with other areas and forecasts inventory requirements.
- Formulates long and short-range business plans and goals.
- Ensure that all plant assets in area of responsibility are properly managed and safeguarded.
- Staffs assigned operations to meet production levels consistent with cost objectives.
- Ensures that employees are properly trained.
- Supervises activities directly or through supervisors and lead operators.
- Coaches and develops subordinates, evaluates performance and initiates corrective action as required.
- Establishes work center/operation efficiency standards.
- Monitors performance to established efficiency and quality standards and initiates corrective action as required.
- Ensures performance reviews are conducted in accordance with policy in area of responsibility.
- Ensures that yard conditions and housekeeping conforms to Company standards in area of responsibility.
- Monitors expenses for area of responsibility and initiates corrective action as required.
- Analyzes production operations and workflow and develops improvement recommendations.
- Monitors output, cuts/yields and scrap to ensure efficient resource utilization and initiates corrective action as required within area of responsibility.
- Manages inventory in area of responsibility, ensures inventory is rotated in accordance with operational policy, and participates in month-end inventory.
- Ensures that machinery in area of operation is properly maintained.
- Prepares various reports and logs as required.
- Participates in the Safety Committee process and ensures that assigned operations are performed consistent with Company and OSHA policies, practices and procedures.
- Ensures that operations are performed with Federal, State and local laws and regulations, and Company policy and procedure.
- Prepares various reports as required.
- Performs other duties as required.
- HS Diploma with an Associate’s or bachelor’s; degree preferred.
- 5+ years of manufacturing leadership experience as a production supervisor or manager.
