Production Manager

Purple is a digitally-native vertical brand with a mission to help people feel and live better through innovative comfort solutions. To us, comfort means more than great products, it means empowering every employee to feel comfortable being themselves. We believe your career at Purple will be a one-of-a-kind “Career in Comfort” because our workforce is one-of-a-kind. We are committed to a culture of collaboration where every voice is heard and understood. As an innovation company at our core, we believe a diversity workforce brings better insights, solutions and products and serves as the backbone to bettering our company. Join with us as we add to our team of exceptional individuals who will help us take over the world — one mattress at a time.

Compensation

The compensation target range for this role is:

$80,800 - $95,000

Job Summary

This position is Thursday-Saturday from 7:00a-7:30p

The Production Manager is an important leadership role in Production. They are accountable for achieving performance goals for key metrics including Safety, Quality, Throughput, Cost, Uptime, and Work In Progress (WIP). They support the Line Managers, safely, obtaining the best quality and efficiency. They ensure employees are safe and wear personal protective equipment (PPE). They assist where needed, keeping roll sheets updated and ensure shift changes happen seamlessly. They support the Operation Systems Managers to drive and coordinate daily 5S and workplace organization activities and ensure operator equipment maintenance duties are performed. The Production Manager helps the team surface problems and implements process improvements. They work closely with the Operations Systems Manager to ensure that L2L data is collected accurately, checklists are filled out and all managers/operators are up to date with training.

Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Administrative Tasks 15%  

• Evaluates Mattress/Peak build plans to ensure we are producing the correct products.  

• Plans the most effective use of equipment and personnel to meet current and future production requirements based on sales volume and inventory (Kanban) levels  

• Assign work orders on the train schedule to support production flow.  

• Works with Line Managers to verify L2L data input is correct and done in a timely manner.  

• Systematically completes inventory moves when needed.  

• Audits Highjump production bins for accuracy.   

• Uses data to identify areas for improvement and coordinates improvement efforts to respected value stream.  

• Inspects attendance files for all Line Mangers for accuracy daily and ensures accountability policies are being followed.  

• Hold Line Managers accountable for inspecting attendance files for all Operators for accuracy daily and ensures accountability policies are being followed.  

• Updates Organizational Chart weekly and reports out to HR and recruiting teams.  

• Monitors quality and initiates actions to prevent product or process nonconformities  

• Ensures all safety related incidents are reported in Teams, Safety and upper management.  

• Ensures all HR violations are reported to HR and upper management.  

• Executes staffing plans and partners with HR in recruiting, selecting, and onboarding employees.  

• Facilitates 8:15 meeting, going over goals and issues for current days Production for assigned shift with all departments in attendance.  

• Reports throughput numbers, and goals to upper management for assigned areas.  

• Employee Engagement 85%  

• Be present on shift one (1) hour prior to start of assigned shift to set the example, assist Line Managers