Production Manager

Production Manager

Kalman & Company is building a team for an anticipated Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Distribution opportunity. The contract will support warehouse and distribution operations in a sustained, audit-ready environment, including receiving, storage, inventory, issue processing, packaging, transportation, equipment support, and related mission functions. This position is contingent upon contract award, final funding, Government acceptance of the candidate, and completion of all required security and access actions.

The Production Manager will coordinate the Distribution Center's operational production divisions and use performance analysis, system data, and direct observation to align workload, staffing, storage, traffic management, and site-specific missions. The salary range is $80K/yr-110K/yr depending upon qualifications held.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage and provide technical guidance for coordination of Distribution Center production divisions and functional workflows.
• Integrate performance planning, systems management, stock positioning, storage operations, traffic management, workload, staffing, and site-specific mission requirements.
• Analyze operational performance through direct observation, reports, dashboards, transaction data, and collaboration with functional leaders.
• Apply statistical analysis and operational data to identify trends, constraints, bottlenecks, capacity issues, and emerging workload changes.
• Forecast workload and recommend or direct resource adjustments to maintain timely, accurate, and complete performance.
• Respond to complex operational problems and formulate, coordinate, and track corrective-action plans.
• Support root-cause analysis, performance recovery, audit readiness, internal controls, and continuous process improvement.
• Coordinate with the Site Manager, Alternate Site Manager, Supply Systems Analyst, Inventory Manager, Transportation Manager, Storage Specialist, and Government counterparts.
• Prepare operational analyses, staffing-impact assessments, production reports, schedules, and leadership briefings.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least three years of experience in warehouse operations and performing statistical analysis on operations comparable in size and complexity to the contemplated effort.
• At least two years of experience using automated warehouse management systems within the past five years.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze production performance, forecast workload, identify operational problems, and adjust resources.
• Experience coordinating multiple warehouse or distribution functions and resolving cross-functional issues.
• Strong analytical, systems, planning, communication, and leadership skills.

Security Requirements

• Must be eligible for access to a DoD installation and successfully complete the Government-required Moderate Risk Personnel Security Investigation and suitability process for a public trust or sensitive position.
• Must be able obtain and maintain a DoD Common Access Card (CAC), installation identification badge, PKI token, and controlled-area access, as applicable to assigned duties.
• Because the position is expected to use DLA WMS and other Government systems, must be eligible for minimum IT II access, including submission of required access forms and a favorably adjudicated T3 investigation, unless the Government approves an exception.
• Must safeguard classified information, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), proprietary information, Government systems, facilities, property, and mission data in accordance with DoD, DLA, CMMC, and local installation requirements.
• Must complete initial and recurring security training, including CUI, Antiterrorism/Force Protection, OPSEC, Counterintelligence, INFOSEC, and Combating Trafficking in Persons training.
• Must comply with visitor-control, key-and-lock-control, incident-reporting, suspicious-contact-reporting, and local force-protection procedures.

Key Personnel Availability Requirement

As designated Key Personnel, the employee must be available, upon notification, to meet Government personnel on-site within one hour during normal duty hours and within two hours outside normal duty hours, unless in an approved excused-absence status. The position may also require extended hours, alternate shifts, emergency response, continuity operations, holiday on-call support, and work during heightened force-protection conditions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with DLA WMS and/or DSS, QLIK or comparable analytics, DoD distribution, audit readiness, performance metrics, or multi-shift operations.
• Experience developing workload models, staffing analyses, production-control dashboards, or corrective-action plans.

Work Environment

Work is performed primarily in warehouse, industrial, transportation, and administrative areas on a military installation. The employee must be able to move safely through operational areas, comply with personal protective equipment and local safety requirements, work around material-handling equipment and vehicle traffic, and maintain performance during changing access or force-protection conditions.