Production Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled Production Manager to join our Manufacturing Operations team at our Assumption, IL facility.

The Production Manager is responsible for the safe, high-quality, and reliable execution of the production plan across assigned manufacturing operations at the Assumption facility.

This leader will establish clear expectations, develop production leadership, and create daily accountability for Safety, Quality, and Delivery.

The Production Manager will work closely with Supervisors, Cell Leads, Planning, Quality, Materials, Maintenance, Engineering, and Continuous Improvement to remove barriers and ensure the factory executes the schedule consistently.

A critical responsibility of this position is developing people.

The Production Manager will coach and develop Supervisors, Cell Leads, and production employees to strengthen leadership capability, improve problem solving, reinforce standard work, and build ownership at the point where the work occurs.

Your Impact


* Safety Leadership - Establish Safety as the first priority in all production activities by being present on the manufacturing floor and incorporating safety expectations into Gemba walks and daily production meetings, ensuring employees understand and consistently follow established safety procedures and work practices, identify and eliminate unsafe conditions and behaviors, hold leaders accountable for addressing safety concerns immediately, partner with EHS and Operations leadership on corrective actions and risk reduction, and encourage employees to identify hazards and participate in improving workplace safety.


* Quality at the Source - Establish clear expectations that quality is owned by the production team and built into the process, ensure operators understand product specifications and critical quality characteristics, respond quickly to defects and recurring quality issues, reduce scrap and rework, use structured problem-solving methods such as 5 Whys and Root Cause Analysis.


* Execute the Production Schedule - The Production Manager is accountable for turning the production schedule into daily execution by ensuring production teams understand what needs to be produced, when it is required, and the expected output, drive daily execution against the frozen production schedule, monitor schedule adherence throughout the shift and respond quickly when production falls behind, identify constraints that threaten customer commitments and escalate them through the appropriate process, maintain discipline around schedule changes and prevent unnecessary disruption to production, ensure labor and equipment resources are aligned with production priorities, and drive recovery plans when schedule performance misses expectations.


* Train and Develop Production Leadership - build stronger production leaders underneath them.

Responsibilities include: coach and develop Supervisors and Cell Leads, establish clear expectations and accountability thr...