Production Manager

Socket.dev; Duluth (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Gibraltar Building Products seeks a Production Manager to lead injection molding operations across North American facilities. You will drive safety, quality, and efficiency, manage production scheduling, and develop teams for sustained performance.

The role emphasizes reducing bottlenecks, ensuring on-time delivery, maintaining equipment uptime, and enforcing corporate safety programs and continuous improvement initiatives. Up to 10% travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 5+ years in operations management in manufacturing.
• Experience leading teams in plastics or injection molding environments.
• Strong knowledge of safety, quality systems, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Monitors KPI’s and drives efficiency and productivity across production.
• Oversees molding operations to meet quality and delivery targets.
• Develops daily production schedules and coordinates resources.
• Ensures safety standards and equipment maintenance practices.
• Leads cross-functional teams to resolve bottlenecks and improve processes.

Skills

Operations management

Safety leadership

Process improvement

Team leadership

Injection molding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Job description

Summary

The Production Manager is responsible for the management of production teams and processes and ensures products are made efficiently, safely, and to quality standards. The Production Manager oversees the day-to-day operations of production, drives day-to-day results for production and continuous improvement activities. This role ensures the development of production teams and holds production teams accountable to an elevated level of standard for safety, quality, and the general maintenance of equipment and facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitors and drives company KPI’s and metrics to ensure high efficiency and productivity.
• Oversees the production process to ensure delivery of high-quality products that meet customers’ needs.
• Ensures appropriate production rate to reduce delivery delays.
• Collaborates with multiple departments to identify and resolve quality concerns.
• Identifies any bottlenecks or delays in production; ensures necessary labor, materials, and other resources are available to relieve production bottlenecks and delays.
• Develop and implement procedures to train employees in the safe and efficient operation of all assembly equipment.
• Creates and adjusts daily production schedule on molding machines.
• Uses production planning and scheduling to limit materials shortages.
• Ensures production machinery complies with safety standards.
• Collaborates with maintenance staff to manage planned downtime maintenance activities on equipment and servicing molds.
• Train personnel on injection molding machines to maintain high efficiency, including instructing and training employees on how to adjust auxiliary equipment on molding machines and processing adjustments for the parts being molded.
• Drive safety culture towards the goal of zero injuries and increased hazard awareness in the workforce
• Manage compliance to corporate safety programs for all manufacturing personnel.
• Conduct daily safety toolbox meetings and train lead personnel to conduct effective toolbox talk meetings.
• Investigate safety incidents, near misses, and complete appropriate reports and alerts.
• Monitors and drives continuous improvement activities and processes.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Oversees the day-to-day workflow of production staff.
• Follows timekeeping requirements for production staff.
• Conducts performance evaluations that are timely and constructive.
• Manages disciplinary action process of employees as needed and in accordance with company policy.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of operations management (plastics preferred) experience and leading others in a manufacturing environment or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3-5 years experience with injection molding.

Travel Requirements

Up to 10% or as needed.

About Us

Gibraltar Building Products is a leading North American building products manufacturer, with several manufacturing facilities across the United States and Canada. As the top supplier in the residential roof ventilation, drainage and roofing accessories markets, Gibraltar Building Products has extensive scale, top brands such asAirVent,Amerimax, Appleton Supply, Architectural Mailboxes, Award Metals, Berger, DOT Metals,Flamco, Florence,NorWesCo, Nu-Ray Metals, Millenium Metals, Quality Aluminum Products, SBC Supply, southeastern, and Verde. Our portfolio of Brands can be found in the nation's largest home center retailers and building product distributors. Gibraltar Building Products is a segment of Gibraltar Industries, Inc (Nasdaq: Rock) a leading manufacturer and provider of products and services for the Residential,Agtech, and Infrastructure markets. To learn more about what makes us #GibraltarProud, visit our website: www.gibraltar1.com

Gibraltar is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and gives all applicants for employment equal consideration regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, arrest record, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, transgender status, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Upon request and consistent with applicable laws, Gibraltar will provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities who need an accommodation to fully participate in the application process.