Production Manager

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you!
 

Job Description

Job Title: Production Manager 

Job Summary 

IKO is a global leader in manufacturing roofing products with production facilities worldwide. We are currently seeking a Production Manager to join our team of skilled professionals based at our Bismarck, Missouri plant.  This plant produces granules for our shingle plants in a high speed, continuous, asphalt shingle manufacturing process environment 

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underline this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. 
  

Job Summary 

The Production Manager is a hands-on, leadership-driven role responsible for overseeing plant operations at the Bismarck, MO facility. The role fosters cross-functional collaboration across Quality, Maintenance, HR, and Logistics, emphasizing a culture of Safety first, continuous improvement, employee development, and operational excellence. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Providing leadership and coaching to production supervisors and employees to meet all safety, environmental, quality, cost and service goals and objectives. 

• Partnering with the Quality Control Coordinator to ensure that finished product meets all customer requirements through continuous improvement and utilization of the plant quality management system. 

• Partnering with the Maintenance Manager to ensure equipment reliability at optimal efficiency and cost. 

• Providing leadership and support to the overall reliability strategy, including the involvement of production employees in TPM. 

• Partner with the Shipping and Receiving Supervisor to ensure optimization of the manufacturing schedule and adjust as necessary to provide required levels of service to our customers in the most cost-effective manner. 

• Providing leadership to maintain a highly engaged workforce. Partners with HR in areas of performance management, employee involvement, organizational change, staffing, and employee development. 

• Providing leadership to drive continuous improvement through the application of methodologies such as Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, 5S, working directly with the production and maintenance teams. 

• Assuring employee training (Safety, Quality, Process) is effective and complete. 

• Mentoring immediate direct reports and establishing an effective team that is accountable and capable of achieving all performance goals. 

• Assuring plant housekeeping meets company standards, implements, and maintains a 5S program to sustain improvements. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree is a plus; re