Production Manager

Job Description

Job Description

JOB TITLE: PRODUCTION MANAGER                                                                       

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY: To direct manufacturing operations through a team of leads and supervisors, ensuring increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction while improving the efficiency and quality production of team members, materials and equipment and enhancing company profitability.

TEAMWORK

• Help each other succeed
• Communicate clearly and directly, listen well
• Encourage team mates
• Blameless problem solving

HONESTY AND INTEGRITY

• Honor your commitments
• Do the right thing
• Consistent in your attitudes and actions

LEAN

• Improve processes
• Open to new ideas
• Share information, and teach
• Expose issues

  NUMBERS FOCUSED

• Deliver results
• Analyze data for improvement
• Take ownership and accountability
• Work smarter, not harder

EXCELLENCE

• Exhibit passion in serving customers
• Contribute solutions
• Sense of urgency
• Be the best at what you do
• Seek knowledge

FUN

• Be positive
• Celebrate achievements
• Don’t take yourself too seriously

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES:

• Provide direction for production personnel including leads and supervisors
  • Coach and support, providing performance feedback on an ongoing basis
  • Build group commitment to department and company goals and objectives
  • Complete performance evaluations in a timely manner
  • Responsible for hiring and progressive corrective counseling as needed
  • Assess training needs, providing assistance as needed
• Assess shop equipment and automation needs in conjunction with Director of Operations; research and provide sound recommendations accordingly
• Formulate and recommend manufacturing policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and the profitability of the operation
• Develop the manufacturing plan and establish procedures for maintaining high standards of manufacturing operations to ensure that products conform to established customer and company quality standards
• Effectively resolve customer concerns and issues in conjunction with internal customer contacts
• Work with Director of Operations on major projects (e.g., plant layout changes, installation of capital equipment, major repairs, etc.)
• Participate in planning, utilizing expertise and creativity for smooth job flow
• Utilize problem solving techniques as needed for various manufacturing functions
• Identify, recommend and implement changes to improve productivity, reduce cost and scrap, monitor rework data
• Direct the establishment, implementation and maintenance of production standards
• Communicate and implement all policies and procedures of Future Form Manufacturing.
• Oversee Sheet Metal, Weld, Paint, and Shipping team activities, providing direction, motivation and feedback
• Assess shop staffing needs and coordinate with shop leads and Administration
• Represent Future Form Manufacturing positively and professionally in all internal and external customer contacts
• Participate in corporate business planning and administration
• Keep current on information and technology affecting functional areas to increase innovation and ensure compliance 
• Maintain the responsibilities of the ISO 9001 system in accordance with the requirements defined in the Quality Manual, and Procedure Level documentation 
• Participate actively and positively in Lean activities
• Participate in sales and marketing efforts
• Keep work area clean and organized
• Other duties as assigned

REPORTS TO:  Director of Operations 

SUPERVISES:  Shop production personnel including leads and supervisors

WORKS WITH: Customers, consultants, suppliers, Future Form Manufacturing Team Members

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS OF POSITION:

Follow all OSHA safety regulations and those set by Future Form Manufacturing

REQUIREMENTS OF POSITION:

Essential

• BA/BS in industrial, mechanical or Business Administration or an acceptable combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 5 years experience in manufacturing management, preferably in a process-oriented company
• Minimum of 3 years experience managing a significant segment of a large manufacturer or the entire operation of a smaller manufacturer
• Strong knowledge of all facets of precision sheet metal manufacturing
• Strong math skills: ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals; algebra, geometry and trigonometry
• Strong blue print knowledge including flat pattern layout knowledge
• Strong ability to counsel team members and to coach and train
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Good computer skills: Word, Excel and Internet use mandatory
• Strong ability to read, analyze and interpret written instructions.
• Ability to trust people to work smart

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Additional related education (e.g., engineering, metallurgy, management and business type courses, problem solving techniques, leadership development)
• Knowledge of CAD systems and of automated (robotic) equipment programming

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS OF POSITION:

Sit 5%, Stand 73%, Bend 5%, Lift 5%, Reach Above Shoulder 10%, Drive 2%.

Maximum (minutes): Sit 30, Stand 480, Bend 3, Lift 3, Reach Above Shoulder 120, Drive 30.

Must be able to lift 50 pounds on a regular basis.  Must have normal vision (with or without corrective lenses) and hearing (with or without corrective hearing aids).

Working Environment: Shop environment.  Moderate noise level.  Exposure to dust, heat and cold.

This will require drug testing per company policy.