Manufacturing Process Manager

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work, and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. In 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

The Process Manager is responsible for maintaining efficient and consistent manufacturing operations across all value stream production areas, shifts, and buildings. In this role, you will lead a team of supervisors to ensure safety, schedules, quality, and efficiency are maintained while resolving any roadblocks that may impede the team’s manufacturing goals. Provide strong leadership, promoting a culture of learning, accountability, and continuous improvement while driving operational excellence to ensure we are meeting our high standards of excellence.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

• Lead the Value Stream across all shifts, manage production processes, identify bottlenecks, and propose solutions to optimize productivity, process improvement, and minimize downtime. Resolve daily production problems with both short and long‑term solutions.
• Facilitate effective communication channels within the plant, ensuring information flow between different departments and shifts.
• Lead the development and implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) to maintain consistent quality and safety standards.
• Represent a balanced, customer‑centric, quality‑focused, service‑to‑others mindset.
• Provide accountability and ownership for supervisors and production team members.
• Analyze production data to guide headcount needs, estimate work requirements, develop staffing levels, and adjust personnel to meet production requirements. Manage staffing needs required for production, including forecasting and communicating needs.
• Coordinate with multiple shift supervisors and managers to ensure seamless flow of projects on all shifts.
• Collaborate with the leadership team to provide operational status and challenges.
• Maintain appropriate production records: work with buyers and planners, schedulers, and others to ensure availability and flow.
• Analyze data and identify production and process improvement opportunities and resolve workflow problems quickly and efficiently.
• Manage and lead production supervisors in motivating a diverse team of production team members, including training, performance evaluations, and development plans.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, such as engineering, quality assurance, project managers, and maintenance, to identify opportunities for enhancing product quality, reducing costs, and improving overall plant efficiency with the goal of improving productivity and margin.
• Oversee capacity planning within the Value Stream for the control of planned outputs.
• Create best practices within all areas of functional responsibility.
• Contribute to regular plant meetings, providing updates on production status, performance targets, and improvement initiatives.
• Ensure reports are prepared on KPIs, production metrics, and operational efficiency for MDI.
• Develop a qualified, well‑trained, and motivated staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, Operations Management or Engineering preferred.
• 5+ years of demonstrated people leadership experience in a manufacturing setting.
• Demonstrated organizational and time‑management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage operations within the manufacturing industry.
• Demonstrated ability to develop high‑performance teams to drive positive business results.
• Proficient with MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.
• Proficient with ERP/MRP systems.
• Previous experience with P&L responsibility is a plus.

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