Production Shift Manager II

As the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, H.B. Fuller’s (NYSE: FUL) innovative, functional coatings, adhesives and sealants enhance the quality, safety and performance of products people use every day. Founded in 1887, with 2024 revenue of $3.6 billion, our mission to Connect What Matters is brought to life by more than 7,500 global team members who collaborate with customers across more than 30 market segments in over 140 countries to develop highly specified solutions that enable customers to bring world-changing innovations to their end markets. Learn more at www.hbfuller.com.

Position Title: Production Shift Manager II

Position Overview: The Production Manager reports to Plant Manager and will manage daily plant operations to ensure that safety, volume, costs, and quality standards are met. He/she ensures that the resources are adequate to meet the facility’s safety procedures and that production schedules are met or exceeded. They will also implement company policies, ensures coaching, development and team building of the staff to ensure performance goals are achieved consistently. The Production Manager drives zero defect culture in safety, quality and productivity and is responsible for achieving monthly, quarterly, and yearly production targets ensuring safety, volume, costs, and quality targets are met.

Primary Duties

This individual will have a variety of responsibilities including but not limited to:

Ensure a high level of employee engagement.

Develop a cross-trained workforce at all levels in line with organizational development goals.

Hire, train, and provide feedback to employees.

Safely deliver products on time, in full with the highest quality at the lowest cost possible while providing a great place to work.

Direct or coordinate production of bulk materials and finished goods.

Review production schedules to make decisions concerning staffing requirements, job assignments while considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.

Develop, maintain and ensure compliance with standard work programs (5S, work instructions, etc.)

Develop, implement or interact with production tracking or quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, or other operational reports, to detect production problems.

Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.

Prepare and maintain production reports or personnel records.

Develop budgets or approve expenditures for supplies, materials, or human resources, ensuring that materials, labor, or equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.

Initiate or coordinate inventory or cost control programs.

Coordinate or recommend procedures for facility or equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines.

Develop skills to troubleshoot and remedy everyday problems (e.g controls, equipment failures, quality issues).

Support and own the step change and cultural improvements looking to instill a continuous improvement mindset.

This role is responsible to drive the output required to meet the SIOP plan with the budgeted costs from the annual operating plan.

Safety – Responsible for ensuring that all safety requirements as stipulated by regulatory and HBF environment, health and safety [EH&S] are complied with at all times by all production team members. Support and coordinate EH&S activities/programs within the Production and other Operation functional groups.

Quality – Responsible for ensuring all quality requirements as determined by H.B. Fuller quality assurance processes are followed at all times in our production processes. As a senior member of the management team, it is expected that the Production manager play a leadership role in creating and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement.

Productivity – Responsible for leading the production team, in collaboration with maintenance team, process engineering and planning teams, in ensuring high productivity without sacrificing Safety or Quality.

Manufacturing Direct and Indirect cost – Responsible for effective cost management and use of resources to support production demands, delivered at the efficient cost – Unit Cost of Manufacture per eaches.

Manufactured to Schedule – Responsible to ensure compliance in meeting planned production schedules in support of our business promise of high service levels to our customers.

Critical Programs – Responsible to ensure that critical programs including but not limited to employee engagement and training, 5S, Structured Problem-Solving Techniques/Root Cause Analysis and Corrective action and