Production Manager

Summary/Purpose: Directly responsible to the Plant Manager and has complete responsibility to make decisions and take action so that established standards and practices in the Production Department are maintained.

Directs, manages and schedules the work of manufacturing personnel to maximize efficiency and meet shipping date commitments to customers.  This critical role will oversee (directly and indirectly) approx.

45 employees on three shifts.

Experience with medical device manufacturing is preferred, but not required.  8-10+ of manufacturing experience is required.

Essential Job Duties


* Day-to-day management and supervision of Production, develop, review, update, and implement Production Control procedures.


* Maintain day-to-day communications with Plant Manager concerning daily operations.


* Meet daily production goals.


* Coordinate all R&D and trial materials and process flows.


* Work with Materials Management/Production Scheduler to review and update controls for inventory functions with periodic cycle counts of inventories; determine correctness of physical and perpetual inventory; develop formulas for control of min-max inventories; maintain weekly perpetual inventory of material movement (as appropriate).


* Provide resources for and implement cycle count program and periodic physical inventory


* Establishes whether production dates are achievable, or alternatives to meet them, forecast future requirements for production and assist in scheduling processes as necessary.


* Monitors scrap figures and reduction programs, report on material losses on a monthly basis, and track daily.


* Manage employee performance and prepare performance evaluations.

Review employee performance periodically and in an objective fact based manner.

Handle corrective actions as needed.


* Responsible for the training and development of personnel


* Schedule staffing and follow up on timely completion work output.


* Interact and communicate with the Sales & Customer Service Departments on current running jobs.


* Ensures that data collection/reporting activities within the Manufacturing department are complete and accurate on a timely manner


* Generate reports based on production performance that align with site, BU and corporate KPI’s


* Works closely with Process Engineers and QA


* Oversees Shipping/receiving department to coordinate and insure timely shipments.


* Facilitates team improvement projects such as, but not limited to:
+ Safety awareness and system improvement
+ Increases in efficiency:
o Changeover time reduction
o Increase run speeds
+ Capital improvements
+ Quality improvement- implementation of data collection system
+ Waste Reduction
+ Work with QC Manager and Materials Manager on new products, samples, and issue resolution.
+ Actively participates and encourage...