Production Manager

Blue Cross Blue Shield; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 86,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

Blue Cross Blue Shield seeks a Production Manager for a full-time, Portland, ME-based role with ownership over business outcomes. You'll drive improvements, forecast demand, and optimize operations, earning a competitive $86,000 - $142,000 package.

You'll mentor teammates, lead data-driven initiatives, and implement automation and robotics integrations to balance cost, speed and reliability.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating impact on outcomes.
• Ownership mindset with fiduciary responsibility.
• Adaptability and resilience to changing requirements.
• Hands-on Root Cause Analysis experience in machining.
• Ability to translate complex relationships for a non-technical audience.
• Strong knowledge of industrial automation and robotics integration.
• Mentor others without micromanaging.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of new tools and systems across the organization.
• Flag the assumption in the plan that everything else quietly rests on.
• Optimize the supply chain to balance cost, speed, and reliability.
• Chase down why margin slipped and come back with a fix, not a theory.
• Build the financial case for hiring before the business team drowns.
• Stand up the operating cadence that keeps Portland, ME teams rowing the same direction.
• Forecast demand and align operational capacity accordingly.

Skills

Ownership

Relationship building

RCA & Machining

Industrial automation

Adaptability

Mentoring

Job description

Blue Cross Blue Shield offers a full-time Production Manager role with a competitive $86,000 - $142,000 package and real ownership over business outcomes. Own your projects, earn $86,000 - $142,000, and grow with a team that turns 8 years of Machining into real results.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of new tools and systems across the organization
• Flag the assumption in the plan that everything else quietly rests on
• Optimize the supply chain to balance cost, speed, and reliability
• Chase down why margin slipped and come back with a fix, not a theory
• Build the financial case for hiring before the business team drowns
• Stand up the operating cadence that keeps Portland, ME teams rowing the same direction
• Forecast demand and align operational capacity accordingly

What You'll Bring

• A portfolio that speaks louder than any line on your resume
• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• Hands-on familiarity with Root Cause Analysis, sharpened by Machining side projects
• Experience translating Relationship Building complexity for a non-technical audience
• Strong working knowledge of Industrial Automation and Robotics Integration
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard

Anchored in Portland, ME, Blue Cross Blue Shield designs the kind of data-driven systems that business teams quietly depend on every single day. The fastest way to earn standing at Blue Cross Blue Shield is to make a teammate's hard problem disappear.

Take home $86,000 - $142,000, build your Teamwork under a mentor, lean on benefits, and shape a full-time week that finally fits.

Re-dated this morning, Blue Cross Blue Shield continues hiring for the Production Manager role.