Production Manager

Production Manager

Job Category: Manufacturing

Requisition Number: PRODU004487

Posted: May 22, 2026

Full-Time

On-site

Teknor Apex | TN Plant 751 Dupree Street Brownsville, TN 38012, USA

Description

Responsibilities

• Promote safety awareness and monitors safety programs and trends.
• Ensures that safety meetings are conducted, investigates and countermeasures all safety problems and reports results.
• Develop plans for improvements and maintain compliance with all environmental regulations.
• Ensures fair and consistent practices, recommends promotions, salary increases, demoting, and transfers.
• Manages Production Department staff.
• Select and develop personnel and identify training needs.
• Counsels and motivates the team and maintains a clean, safe, working environment.
• Reviews, analyzes, and monitors daily and monthly production results and trends according to man, machine, material methods measured against plant goals.
• Develop resolutions through troubleshooting which is corrective prevention.
• Direct and lead all departmental activities consistent within plant goals, i.e., safety production, waste, scrap, and employee relations.
• Counter measures adverse trends, obtains and deploys resources as necessary.
• Maintain lowest costs for production.
• Educates and trains team in standard practices, process capability, and downgrade defect analysis.
• Promotes a high level of good housekeeping.
• Audits SOP compliance, establishes plans, and controls points for achieving production requirements, communicates objectives to team.
• Interacts and coordinates activities with support department, maintenance, technical support, and customer service department.
• Directs resources to improve and correct deficiencies and initiate countermeasures.
• Submits monthly reports that document results vs. monthly budget expectations.
• Actively audit safe conditions and safe behaviors every shift while on the floor – uphold safety rules and policies and proactively addresses safety hazards and unsafe behaviors.
• Actively model setting high Safety standards (LOTO, proper PPE, no ear buds or phones on production floor, long sleeve shirts, dust masks, etc.)
• Coach and drive 6S principles and improvements across the department and plant.
• Drive Safety, Quality, Yield and Productivity Continuous Improvement and lead projects.
• Coach, mentor & develop team to successfully operate their assigned production lines.
• Work to ensure any needed training is completed on time and strong cross training to standard/work procedures is actively ongoing.
• Be accessible to employees to create an open door and team-oriented culture.
• Participate in meetings as needed and be responsive to e-mail & phone communications.
• Be active in your own personal leadership development and attend scheduled leadership & management trainings.
• Passionately drive continuous improvement culture.
• Administer established policies for performance management, staffing, training, employee relations, and compensation management.
• Performs additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Position has budget responsibilities of $5,000,000 to $20,000,000 and no sales revenue responsibilities.
• Work requires the application of a variety of procedures, policies, and/or precedents used in combination.
• Model positive leadership behaviors that align with our Core Values and build relationships and collaboration across the shift, other shifts and cross functionally.
• This description is a summary of principal responsibilities and is not intended to include all duties that may be assigned.

Skills

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to be a change agent
• Good communicator across various levels of the organization
• Strong Problem Solving, troubleshooting and communication skills
• Ability to think strategically to prevent re-occurring problems
• Critical thinking and Attention to Detail
• Strong Analytic ability is needed to gather and interpret data where results/answers can be found after analysis of several facts
• Ability to use computer and various systems required to perform role
• Root cause analysis certification/training completed within 12 months

Experiences

• Position requires between 6-8 years of production management experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Chemistry or Engineering is preferred

Physical Requirements

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time, squat, bend, twist and turn as needed to perform the job.
• Must be able to climb ladders and stairs multiple times throughout the shift.
• Must possess good manual and mechanical dexterity to perform job duties.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds.
• Must be able to wear required safety equipment.

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