Production Manager

Trimax Mowing Systems; Fayetteville (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Trimax Mowing Systems in the United States seeks a PD US Production Manager to lead Fabrication, Coating and Assembly operations, drive safety, quality and on-time delivery, and manage plant equipment and staff.

You will implement lean manufacturing, optimize processes, and use ERP/data insights to improve productivity while maintaining a focus on safe, reliable production that meets customer demand.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a production leadership role (manufacturing or similar).
• Experience in mild steel fabrication and mechanical assembly, or similar fields.
• Demonstrated leadership in safety, quality, and team performance.
• Knowledgeable in lean manufacturing principles.
• Capable with ERP systems and data.
• Ability to carry out tasks in the facility – lifting and maneuvering equipment when needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily operations across Fabrication, Coating and Assembly teams. Manage the team, Facility and Assets.
• Ensure production goals are met to satisfy customer due dates and sales growth.
• Ensure efficient manufacture of product to standard times without downtime and rework.
• Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing processes and quality, uptime, and flow across areas.
• Instill team pride in build quality and customer impression of our products.
• Maintain timely product cost tracking and accurate inventory accounting.

Skills

Leadership

Lean manufacturing

ERP systems

Data analytics

Safety management

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Major Activities

• Drive a safety-first culture, promoting safe work practices and actively identifying and addressing risks.
• Ensure Safety is the first priority in daily operations to keep our team safe and healthy.
• Identify problems that create risk and may flow on to quality and productivity.
• Demonstrate/document effective risk management as a responsible employer.
• Lead daily operations across Fabrication, Coating and Assembly teams. Manage the team, Facility and Assets.
• Ensure production goals can be met to satisfy customer due dates and sales growth.
• Ensure efficient manufacture of product to standard times without minimal downtime and rework.
• Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing processes.
• Manage quality, uptime, and flow across all production areas through effective training, process controls and QC checks.
• Instill team pride in what we build, impress the customer with our build quality and finish.
• Ensure products are manufactured consistently and to specification.
• Ensure team members are empowered to highlight quality issues, prevent them moving through the process and to help find the root cause. Identify actions and carry them out.
• Ensure new staff can be brought up to speed quickly to add value.
• Actively identify production issues and resolve these to achieve production targets.
• Ensure we meet monthly build targets to limit the impact on our customers through defects, delays and product performance issues.
• Create a world class production facility that identifies opportunities, addresses risks and implements countermeasures.
• Manage system processes and documentation to ensure timely processing.
• Allow effective tracking of key business information.
• Ensure product is correctly costed and inventory is accounted for in a timely manner.
• Ensure quality documentation is stored correctly for future reference.

PD US Production Manager

MAJOR CHALLENGES

• Leading a team across a number of different disciplines to achieve key outcomes.
• Meeting production and customer service performance measures consistently under growing and seasonal work load variations.
• Having a deep understanding of manufacturing procedures and their impact on safety and quality.
• Maintaining a high level of communication and professionalism with members of the Trimax family.
• Implementing improvements where new product and engineering workloads are high.

DECISION MAKING AUTHORITY

• Major decisions able to be made within your delegated authorities.
• Assigning/Re-deploying resources to achieve planned outcomes (people, inventory, plant).
• Identifying and implementing improvements within your delegated authority.
• Recruiting and selecting staff for approved roles.

Major actions and decisions which are recommended to a higher level of management for approval.

• Adding to staff levels or commencing formal discipline of staff.
• Altering manufacturing procedures/standards or policies.
• Expenditure outside the delegated authority.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years in a production leadership role (manufacturing or similar).
• Experience in mild steel fabrication and mechanical assembly, or similar fields.
• Demonstrated leadership in safety, quality, and team performance.
• Knowledgeable in lean manufacturing principles.
• Capable with ERP systems and data.
• Ability to carry out tasks in the facility - including lifting, maneuvering equipment and parts from time to time.