Production Manager

The Production Manager is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and resource stewardship for the manufacturing department at a high‑volume site in Streetsboro, OH. This role drives timely and impactful improvements to safety, quality, delivery, cost, and engagement, and leads cross‑functional strategies that execute the company’s manufacturing excellence roadmap.

• Ensure a safe work environment. Promptly address safety issues and ensure OSHA standard and applicable compliance. Monitor associate activities to ensure adherence to safety policies, safety initiatives and timely completion of required safety training. Identify and investigate incidents.
• Maintain and promote an organized work environment to ensure a safe, efficient operation. May serve as a facilitator or co‑leader on a designated Safety Team/Committee.
• Communicate EHS goals and expectations, standards, and issues/concerns throughout the manufacturing department. Will collaborate with other leaders on the same.
• As applicable, oversee management of hazardous waste programs in collaboration with Safety Team as well as taking preventive measures and waste minimalization where applicable.

• Ensure quality to standard. Establishes, maintains, and facilitates product quality specifications. Responsible for quality of all products and materials from designated areas of responsibility.
• Meeting all production specifications, implementation and sustainability of QC programs and providing relevant information to inform vendors and suppliers as it relates to them meeting our specifications of incoming raw materials.
• Proactively review practices for correct, quality workmanship and process flow, along with timeliness. Address and participate in the effective resolution of customer complaints.

• Ability to define problems, collect & synthesize data from various sources, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Use daily management metrics and control charts to conduct fact‑based analysis of current state and propose solutions. Ensure communication of results.
• Diagnose any potential areas needing improvement and identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency.
• Ensure and monitor manufacturing area is scheduling to plan. Use qualitative and quantitative approaches to forecasting labor demand and mix.
• Ability to manage multiple shift operation. Responsible for determining appropriate levels of staffing for production.
• Meet or exceed financial goals consistently by focusing on organizational and departmental goals in a way that is aligned with core values, vision, mission and behaviors & mindsets.
• Invest a substantial amount of time reinforcing our manufacturing excellence roadmap, holding themselves and others accountable for performance and leadership commitments.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives while aligning with employee engagement within the department.
• Partner with maintenance department to ensure effective equipment utilization and appropriate safety measures. Coordinate & collaborate with maintenance for scheduling downtime for equipment maintenance and repairs.
• Ensures complete and timely product delivery. Collaborates with scheduling department as it pertains to manufacturing scheduling activities and communicates schedules to direct reports accordingly.
• Prepares and distributes production reports.

• Drive simplification efforts within the department, particularly removing manufacturing activities “draining” the operations cost structure.
• Assist in preparation of departmental budget in collaboration with plant manager and finance.
• Continuously look for opportunities to reduce costs of goods measured as savings year to year including direct labor and overhead.
• Develop strategies for COGS reduction while managing growth and/or expansion.

• Proven leadership skills and the ability to effectively motivate others to perform to the best of their ability.
• Effectively communicate through verbal & written communication and interpersonal skills including public speaking skills and presence in meetings and training…