Industrial Production Manager
Life As an Industrial Production Manager
Industrial Production Manager Job Description Plan, direct, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications.
Industrial Production Manager Responsibilities
- Review plans and confer with research or support staff to develop new products or processes.
- Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality.
- Negotiate materials prices with suppliers.
- Initiate or coordinate inventory or cost control programs.
- Institute employee suggestion or involvement programs.
- Prepare and maintain production reports or personnel records.
What Skills Do You Need to Work as an Industrial Production Manager?
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
Time Management: Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Related Job Titles
- Car Construction Superintendent
- Manufacturing Planner
- Food Production Manager
- Manufacturer
- Materials Coordinator
What Tools do Industrial Production Managers Use?
Below is a list of the types of tools and technologies that Industrial Production Managers may use on a daily basis:
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- SAP
- Microsoft Project
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Database software
- IBM Notes
- FileMaker Pro
- Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign
- Oracle PeopleSoft
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Minitab
- Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
- Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
- PTC Creo Parametric