Production Manager

KB Sourcing; Edmond (OK); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

KB Sourcing in Edmond, OK is seeking a Production Manager to oversee production schedules, optimize capacity, and ensure on-time delivery while maintaining target inventory levels. This role requires coordinating with Quality, Engineering, and Customer Service to interpret orders, manage NCRs, and drive continuous improvement on plating, grinding, and HVOF processes.

You will supervise shop staff and participate in hiring, with a focus on ethical conduct, organization, time management, and

Qualifications

• Must read blueprints and interpret process steps.
• Experience in scheduling across production centers based on customer orders.
• Familiarity with plating, grinding and HVOF processes.
• Ability to communicate NCRs with Quality, Production, and Engineering.
• Knowledge of quality audits and customer visits.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain production schedules with scheduler support.
• Coordinate production aspects to meet release dates.
• Prioritize jobs based on urgency with Customer Service.
• Collaborate across departments to ensure accurate processing.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Production scheduling

Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs)

Quality audits

Team leadership

Problem solving

Time management

Organizational skills

Job description

The Production Manager oversees production schedules to ensure customer delivery requirements are met and the company's productive capacity is optimized, in addition to managing inventory levels.

Reports To

President and Director of Operations

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to read blueprints and concentrate on process steps.
• Interpret customer purchase orders and process specifications.
• Understand plating, grinding, and HVOF processes to schedule work across centers.
• Communicate Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) with Quality, Production, and Engineering Departments to ensure processing accuracy.
• Learn the Quality system to participate in customer quality audits and sales visits.
• Collaborate with Customer Service to prioritize jobs based on urgency, as determined by customer service and scheduling.
• Coordinate production aspects of products.
• Establish and maintain production schedules for each product, with support from the production scheduler and direction from the team lead, to meet release dates and document and enhance the Production product development process.
• Computer Literacy
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Teamwork Orientation
• Ethical Conduct
• Organizational Skills
• Time Management
• Technical Capacity

Supervisory Responsibility

This position manages all shop employees and is responsible for their performance management and hiring within all departments.

This job operates in a professional office environment and on the production floor, routinely using standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.