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Senior Manager, Production

In this critical role, you will be accountable for the overall performance, efficiency, and stability of daily production operations. This role ensures manufacturing processes operate safely, consistently, and in alignment with established quality and performance standards. As a senior operational leader with broad influence across the department, this individual sets the tone for leadership consistency, ensuring supervisors and frontline leaders execute with clarity, accountability, and alignment. The perfect candidate will lead a cross-functional business team, establish clear expectations, and provide ongoing feedback to strengthen collaboration and eliminate operational silos. The Production Department Manager drives engagement and accountability across teams while coordinating production schedules, managing departmental staffing, optimizing processes to improve output, and maintaining strict safety and compliance standards. A key priority of the role is retention, with deliberate focus on creating a stable, positive work environment that fosters loyalty, performance, and long-term team development.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Working in concert with Plant Director and department executives, this role will have a strong emphasis on operational excellence, aligning execution with broader organizational objectives and strategic priorities within this major site. • Oversee Business Team 1 across all shifts to ensure efficient operations, adherence to established standards, and consistent achievement of performance targets. Developing relationships with teams and setting standards for clarity of communications and productivity. • Contribute as a core member of the broader leadership team, advancing strategic initiatives, strengthening collaboration, and driving continuous improvement efforts. • Provide structured oversight to shift supervisors, reinforcing operational standards, promoting team effectiveness, and sustaining consistency through feedback and accountability. • Critically establish clear performance expectations and reinforce accountability at all levels of the organization. • Model an engaging and supportive leadership approach that promotes motivation, ownership, and high performance. • Successfully direct daily production activities to ensure operational efficiency, product quality, and achievement of output targets. Drive process optimization initiatives through structured continuous improvement efforts. • Align production schedules with customer demand and operational capacity to reduce downtime and maximize throughput. • Evaluate performance metrics and operational data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement. • Maintain accountability for production results by proactively addressing performance shortfalls and implementing corrective actions while maintaining strict adherence to quality standards by identifying defects, addressing inefficiencies, and implementing corrective actions. • Uphold safety protocols and regulatory requirements to ensure a compliant and secure work environment. • Reinforce accountability across the team for safety, quality, and compliance outcomes, ensuring ownership remains within the department

QUALIFICATIONS: • Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related field • 7+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in managing large teams within a large-scale production environment is required. • Demonstrated experience and success in managing people effectively and leading operations function. • Proven success leveraging Lean Six Sigma to optimize processes, improve quality, reduce waste, and drive measurable performance improvements. • The right expert for this role will bring a mix of strategic and tactical skills and will be able to translate strategy into effective plans of action and flawless execution

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $118,000.00 - $167,000.00 per year

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