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Production Manager
Lawton StandardUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Mar 2025
💰 $95,000/yr($80,000/yr – $95,000/yr)
About the role
Penn-Mar Castings LLC is looking for a Production Manager to join our team!
The Production Manager will be responsible for assisting in managing the day-to-day flow of operations throughout the foundry. Consistently leading operations that are focused on lean manufacturing as an enterprise solution and model those behaviors in day-to-day activities. The Production Manager is responsible for cross training as well as encouraging cohesive relationships between the operational functions.
What is the job?
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes Required:
The Production Manager will be responsible for assisting in managing the day-to-day flow of operations throughout the foundry. Consistently leading operations that are focused on lean manufacturing as an enterprise solution and model those behaviors in day-to-day activities. The Production Manager is responsible for cross training as well as encouraging cohesive relationships between the operational functions.
What is the job?
- Help Manage and direct all production and operation activity to ensure a safe work environment.
- Drive lean culture with a focus on continuous improvement and employee development.
- Mentor and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach: assign accountabilities; set objectives; establish priorities; and evaluate results.
- Working collaboratively with the safety department to ensure regulations and safety practices are a priority.
- Create measures to routinely document, review, & trend process performance targets & misses.
- Focusing on tactical decisions on all production processes and output
- Coordinating the workforce and resource allocation to ensure daily customer needs are met
- Ensuring Quality standards and expectations are met daily
- Passionate about lean as an enterprise solution and model the behaviors doing Lean in one’s own work.
- Set clear written expectations, regularly uses a process to track and follow up on actual accomplishment of assigned tasks.
- Eager to empower others in the area through structured ways to elicit and implement their ideas.
- Create measures to frequently document process performance and misses.
- Understand and ensure that all company policies and procedures are enforced.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree
- Experience: 5 or more years of working with Lean Systems and 5 or more years of managing supervisors in a heavy manufacturing environment.
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes Required:
- Passionate about lean as an enterprise solution and models the behaviors by practicing lean in one’s own work.
- Exhibits intense commitment and focus on explicitly defining processes as well as a disciplined adherence to those processes.
- Sets clear written expectations, using a defined process to track and follow up on accomplishment of assigned tasks
- Creating an environment to empower employees to improve their own areas through structured programs that are aimed at eliciting and implementing ideas.
- Strong attention to detail and well organized.
- Free training to upgrade your skills, including a tuition reimbursement program
- Medical, dental, vision within the first 60 days (first of the month following 30 days)
- Company paid disability & life insurance
- 401k (with match)
- Direct deposit
- PTO
- Paid Holidays
- Fixed weekly schedule
- Uniforms paid for by company
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