Production Manager

Job Description:  Location - Minneapolis, MN

We are looking for a Production Manager who will be responsible for cost effective manufacturing of company products consistent with required quality standards, safe work practices, effective housekeeping and maintaining compliance with personnel policies. The Production Manager manages the production line, applying continuous improvement principles and methods and promoting participation related management techniques.

Specific responsibilities include:

·        Manage daily production operations through the Production Superintendent, production supervisors and/or production teams to maximize production efficiency including volume or product produced, run rates, raw material utilization, yield loss, downtime, and slowdown while producing high quality product in a safe manner. Ensure that standards and expectations are in place, routinely communicated, clearly understood, and consistently met. 

·        Provide formal objectives and measurements for plant personnel and is involved in machine trouble shooting, efficiency studies and capital improvements.

·        Ensure that production crews are well trained, involved and committed to meeting production, quality, and safety requirements. Assure that equipment and machinery comply with all outside regulatory agency requirements and those employees are adequately protected against safety hazards and that the plant is operated within environmental permit requirements. 

·        Meet daily production schedule and requirements. Work jointly with logistics and purchasing to ensure appropriate inventory mix is available, while balancing both production efficiency and raw material demands. 

·        Develop, implement, and track compliance to production department expense budgets. Control key cost elements to ensure achievement to ensure achievement of budget spending goals. Guide production supervision to     achieve a balance between production needs, machine reliability and overall repair cost. 

·        Provide leadership and direction to the production department. Responsible for maintaining an environment for good employee relations to prevent any union organizing attempts. Work closely with human resources and     supervisors to ensure appropriate staffing is maintained. Participate in hiring process to ensure we staff motivated team members. Ability to effectively communicate the Bonus Plan to all employees to maximize participation and impact on performance. 

·        Perform other duties as assigned. 

Responsibilities:

·        A bachelor’s degree in engineering, Chemical or Mechanical preferred, coupled with 4 + years of experience in manufacturing management with project management experience. 

·        Demonstrated experience in process and quality improvements, implementing strategy for production operations, hiring/training/coaching employees, and performance management.

Additional experience in a high-volume manufacturing operation, preferably continuous web process.