Production Manager

This role is for the Production Department Leader (Production Manager) at Ecolab’s Manufacturing Site in Joliet, IL.

The Joliet Production Department Leader (Production Manager) is responsible for all metrics of safety, quality, production, cost, productivity, and people development and engagement for several production areas across all shifts.  This person displays ownership mentality to keep equipment healthy through a Total Productive Maintenance culture (TPM) and tool utilization and to develop and engage the production associates and area-level leadership through High-Performing Organization (HPO) methodologies to do the same.  This person shall act as the single point of contact for activities and work in the Department.   This person will analyze losses, develop strategic plans, and coach teams to improve these metrics through developing standards, work processes, staffing strategies, and maintenance strategies in a PDCA methodology.   This person serves as liaison to interface with support Departments and report results through daily operational meetings.

The Production Department Leader will directly lead the Department, including a team of Production Area Leaders and Production Team Leaders, and all hourly employees for the designated Department to make chemical products in this ISO 9000 certified facility. You will also lead production engineers and a maintenance planner with a dotted line reporting structure to you.   You will interact with Divisional Business Leaders, Global Supply Chain functional leaders, and peers on the Site Leadership Team to continuously improve and develop the processes in chemical manufacturing:  Engagement, Safety, Quality, Planning, Procurement and Distribution. 

What You Will Do:

• Ensure safe work practices at all times
• Create a healthy employee relations climate.  Support a team-based environment with engagement and communication at the forefront
• Create/improve Autonomous Maintenance standards
• Create staffing strategies to optimize the Operation
• Improve new Team Member onboarding materials and processes
• Set Clear Team Goals & continuously coach Team Members
• Monitor key metrics and use loss analysis to drive improvement projects

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years’ manufacturing experience
• 2+ years’ manufacturing direct-line leadership (supervisory) experience
• 1+ years’ experience in at least 2 operations functional areas, e.g., Production, Distribution, Planning, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, Compliance or HR
• Immigration sponsorship not available for this role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in an engineering related field
• TPM Experience
• 2+ years’ experience applying TPM / Toyota Production Principals in a Manufacturing environment

Benefits 

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Due to local mandates and customer requirements, applicants for certain customer-facing positions must be fully vaccinated (which in some situations requires a booster if eligible), unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab. 

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