Production Manager; 1st Shift

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Full Time Management Cincinnati, OH, US

5 days ago Requisition

Manages production line to assemble, align, and adjust fabricated parts in a manufacturing setting. Develops standard manufacturing procedures to meet product specifications and production targets. Plans and assigns production resources and workers to maintain desired output levels. Reviews daily assembly production records to identify trends or potential performance issues. Makes adjustments to teams and resources to maintain the required production rate.

Monitors quality metrics to spot problems with materials, designs, or work processes. May require a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to a director. Manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets. Has full authority for personnel actions. 1 - 3 years supervisory experience may be required. Extensive knowledge of the function and department processes.

• Lead the factory production and production support teams (direct line, including direct labour, indirect labour, and temporary employees) for daily execution of the production plan to maximise output and minimize cost.
• Ensure that the factory plays an integral role in maintaining supply (working with the supply chain team) to timely produce inventory at the right quality and lowest cost to meet customer/sales needs.
• Provide robust management and people leadership across the factory, including both those with direct line factory responsibilities and those without.
• Provide quality stewardship of our products, assets, and their quality attributes with efficient delivery to ensure customer satisfaction. Collaborate with Commercial and Technical/R&D functions to ensure product quality and service.
• Assist Plant Manager in effective Supply management evaluation and business inputs on staffing, cost, capacity, assets, and the supply chain execution to ensure a feasible “Voice of Supply” is reflected.
• Lead the Operations employees by coaching, mentoring, and training/development to ensure the deliverables of manufacturing are met.
• Ensure engaging morale‑building programs and robust communications to team members about the business and site performance.
• Provide direct leadership for the factory operating system, safety, discreet production scheduling, materials ordering and expediting, local raw and FGS inventory, shipping/receiving, and application/usage of business systems. Provide indirect support for QA/QC audits/inspections, finance cost controls, HR, business planning process inputs and local IT.
• Be a member of the Site Operations Leadership Team / the plant managers direct staff member.
• Identify and evaluate financial labour and efficiency opportunities and recommend solutions that will drive overall cost reductions and labour management to continuously improve the factory P&L by direct leadership and support of Production.
• Drive timelines for efficiency improvement, site projects and other initiatives for the plant and share/establish best practices across site for CI.
• Maintains factory staffing within cost/financial targets, standards and tracking for produced goods (waste/NQC, inventory and cash delivery, operational costs/tonne, etc.).
• Maintains factory KPI’s and cost roadmaps, including routine, periodic metric dashboards. Provide improvements to MES information systems to drive executional performance.
• Support and partner with local factory technical support engineers as part of the leadership team in support of production goals. Ensure asset maintenance for both current business and integration of new capital/capacity investments. Being a steward for all site assets (infrastructure and equipment).
• A partner in maintaining site safety employee and product controls and traffic systems to ensure both people and product safety, including site security and overall capability of the site.
• Maintain the daily factory operating…