Production Manager

Teknor Apex Company • Full-time • Brownsville, TN, US • 4h ago

Responsibilities

Promote safety awareness and monitors safety programs and trends.
Ensures that safety meetings are conducted, investigates and countermeasures all safety problems and reports results.
Develop plans for improvements and maintain compliance with all environmental regulations.
Ensures fair and consistent practices, recommends promotions, salary increases, demoting, and transfers.
Manages Production Department staff.
Select and develop personnel and identify training needs.
Counsels and motivates the team and maintains a clean, safe, working environment.
Reviews, analyzes, and monitors daily and monthly production results and trends according to man, machine, material methods measured against plant goals.
Develop resolutions through troubleshooting which is corrective prevention.
Direct and lead all departmental activities consistent within plant goals, i.e., safety production, waste, scrap, and employee relations.
Counter measures adverse trends, obtains and deploys resources as necessary.
Maintain lowest costs for production.
Educates and trains team in standard practices, process capability, and downgrade defect analysis.
Promotes a high level of good housekeeping.
Audits SOP compliance, establishes plans, and controls points for achieving production requirements, communicates objectives to team.
Interacts and coordinates activities with support department, maintenance, technical support, and customer service department.
Directs resources to improve and correct deficiencies and initiate countermeasures.
Submits monthly reports that document results vs. monthly budget expectations.
Actively audit safe conditions and safe behaviors every shift while on the floor – uphold safety rules and policies and proactively addresses safety hazards and unsafe behaviors.
Actively model setting high Safety standards ( LOTO, proper PPE, no ear buds or phones on production floor, long sleeve shirts, dust masks, etc.)
Coach and drive 6S principles and improvements across the department and plant.
Drive Safety, Quality, Yield and Productivity Continuous Improvement and lead projects.
Coach, mentor & develop team to successfully operate their assigned production lines.
Work to ensure any needed training is completed on time and strong cross training to standard/work procedures is actively ongoing.
Be accessible to employees to create an open door and team-oriented culture.
Participate in meetings as needed and be responsive to e-mail & phone communications.
Be active in your own personal leadership development and attend scheduled leadership & management trainings.
Passionately drive continuous improvement culture.
Administer established policies for performance management, staffing, training, employee relations, and compensation management.
Performs additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Position has budget responsibilities of $5,000,000 to $20,000,000 and no sales revenue responsibilities.
Work requires the application of a variety of procedures, policies, and/or precedents used in combination.
Model positive leadership behaviors that align with our Core Values and build relationships and collaboration across the shift, other shifts and cross functionally.
This description is a summary of principal responsibilities and is not intended to include all duties that may be assigned.

Skills

Strong leadership skills with the ability to be a change agent
Good communicator across various levels of the organization
Strong Problem Solving, troubleshooting and communication skills
Ability to think strategically to prevent re-occurring problems
Critical thinking and Attention to Detail
Strong Analytic ability is needed to gather and interpret data where results/answers can be found after analysis of several facts
Ability to use computer and various systems required to perform role
Root cause analysis certification/training completed within 12 months

Experiences

Position requires between 6-8 years of production management experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Chemistry or Engineering is preferred

Physical Requirements

Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards
Must be able to stand for long periods of time, squat, bend, twist and turn as needed to perform the job.
Must be able to climb ladders and stairs multiple times throughout the shift.
Must possess good manual and mechanical dexterity to perform job duties.
Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds.
Must be able to wear required safety equipment.

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