Production Manager

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Position Description:

As a pivotal figure in the production environment, the Production Manager is tasked with ensuring effective employee relations, coaching, and development. This role is responsible for making critical employment decisions and resolving employee issues through problem resolution. The Manager balances multiple priorities, including quality, productivity, cost, safety, and morale, to achieve positive outcomes in all areas. They manage departmental performance measures and provide regular updates to their manager.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensures effective employee relations. Provides employee coaching and development. Makes employment decisions. Resolves employee issues through problem resolution.
• Balances quality, productivity, cost, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas.
• Manages departmental performance measures, including visual controls and provides regular progress reports to manager.
• Manages department priorities.
• Directs operators with respect to production volume and quality.
• Stimulates maximum efficiency and productivity of operators. 
• Confers with the Plant Superintendent to establish working schedules for all departments connected with production. 
• In connection with other supervisors, establishes accountability and goals used for performance evaluation.
• Works to continuously improve in all areas.
• Recommends the hiring and releasing of production staff as required to maintain production schedule.
• Arranges to have appropriate production records prepared and given to the Plant Superintendent.
• Keeps records of departmental activity as required.  Assures efficient and economical utilization of materials, improvement of methods and elimination of wasteful practices within the department. 
• Maintains adherence to company policies and procedures.
• Comply with OSHA Safety and Health rules.
• Performs accident investigations.
• Tracks absenteeism and time-keeping.
• Maintains adherence to company policies, quality/safety/environmental standards as outlined in roles and responsibilities of ISO 9001/14001/18001 and the GSS integrated management system.
• Attends safety meetings and training and follows all safety guidelines.
• Participates in job and leadership training as organized by Management.
• Learns new systems and methods when necessary.
• Is responsible for all other duties as assigned.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience - will accept experience in lieu of education.
• Demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.
• An ability to think ahead and plan over a 30-day time span and prepare action plans to achieve results.
• Supervision, including employee hiring and retention, performance review and discipline.
• An ability to balance and achieve positive results in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, cost and employee relations.
• Systems and continuous improvement orientation.
• Quality orientation and attention to detail.
• Problem analysis and resolution.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• An ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret manufacturing documentation and reports.
• Microsoft Office experience.
• Strong team player.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.