Production Manager

The Production Manager is a member of the Operations leadership team and is responsible for establishing the direction and providing the leadership for the Production Department. This individual will be responsible for delivering a strong and robust Manufacturing Excellence Program through Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM), Total Quality Management (TQM), and Lean-Six Sigma manufacturing philosophy to ensure a balanced delivery against the strategic Quality, Cost, Delivery, Environmental-Health-Safety, and People pillars.

 

Primary Responsibilities

• Food safety is a key accountability for this position; report all food safety and quality issues to the immediate Supervisor and/or head of Quality and take immediate action as appropriate within the team as defined by Quality procedures
• Maintain safe and clean work environment to be audit-ready by educating and directing personnel on the use of control points, equipment, and resources
• Maintain compliance with established policies and procedures, and develop timely corrective actions for all non-compliant situations
• Supervise and evaluate the performance of production personnel: provide feedback, set goals, perform coaching or counseling, hold direct reports accountable, create development plans and record-keeping of attendance points, paid time off, training, etc.
• Maintain workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments
• Communicate and coordinate between the different departments (quality, R&D, warehouse, maintenance, and production).
• Collaborate with Operations, R&D, QA/QC, Procurement, and Planning colleagues to ensure an optimal schedule and then safe, efficient, timely delivery of the schedule.
• Ensure production meets or exceeds quality standards by adhering, but not limited to SOPs, FDA, HACCP, GMP, and OSHA regulations.
• Monitor operating specifications of each workstation; respond to and troubleshoot abnormalities in daily operations.
• Manage and monitor production budget and expenses; estimate costs and budgets.
• Determine the number of necessary resources: workforce, production supplies, raw materials, packaging, etc.
• Create maintenance work requests; prioritize work orders in collaboration with maintenance; prioritize and assist in defining maintenance requirements including spare parts, preventative maintenance, and work instructions.
• Regularly lead employee meetings for business updates, safety, quality, cost, and customer service performance and priorities with all production employees.
• Monitor employees' work performance and attitude and perform formal reviews as required by policy; conduct performance reviews of your direct reports
• Drive and empower employee engagement, training, and development to maximize safety, quality, and productivity.
• Troubleshoot to identify and assist in developing solutions for issues affecting production
• Lead continuous improvement projects and activities as required
• Utilize TPM, TQM, and Lean Six Sigma principles and tools; educate and train employees utilizing Lean principles.
• Participates in the capital process in the Production Department including identifying, developing, submitting, and implementing CAPEX projects; approve purchase of equipment.
• Implement production control systems consistent with lean material flow syste