Production Manager

Riverfront Machine; Spring Valley (IL); Vor Ort; USD 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Riverfront Machine is seeking a Production Manager to lead our manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, efficiency, accuracy, and on-time output. You will oversee daily plant activities, monitor performance, and drive continual improvements across departments.

You will collaborate with leadership, HR, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance to meet production goals, reduce downtime, and foster cross-functional teamwork while upholding company policies and safety standards.

Qualifikationen

• Leadership experience in manufacturing, production, or industrial environments.
• Strong understanding of production flow, staffing, scheduling, safety, quality, and accountability.
• Experience leading supervisors and production teams.
• Excellent communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.

Aufgaben

• Oversee day-to-day manufacturing operations including production, fabrication, and warehouse functions.
• Ensure schedules, customer requirements, safety standards, and priorities are met.
• Monitor workflow, staffing levels, overtime, efficiency, and department performance.
• Provide direction and accountability to supervisors and employees.
• Identify and resolve operational issues with cross-functional teams.
• Partner with HR on staffing, attendance, and performance concerns.
• Support safety programs and enforce safety rules consistently.
• Communicate updates and project status to leadership.

Kenntnisse

Leadership experience

Production flow understanding

Staffing and scheduling

Safety and quality focus

Communication and decision-making

Problem solving and follow-through

Jobbeschreibung

The Production Manager is responsible for leading the company’s production and manufacturing operations to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, accurately, and on time. This position oversees daily plant operations, production performance, staffing needs, workflow, process improvement, and overall operational accountability.

The Production Manager works closely with leadership, supervisors, HR, Quality, Engineering, Customer Service, and Maintenance to support company goals, improve communication, reduce downtime, and ensure departments are working together effectively.

• Oversee day to day manufacturing operations, including production, fabrication, press operations, shipping/warehouse, and related production support areas.
• Ensure production schedules, customer requirements, quality expectations, safety standards, and company priorities are being met.
• Monitor workflow, staffing levels, overtime, efficiency, production output, and department performance.
• Provide direction, coaching, support, and accountability to supervisors, department leaders, and employees.
• Identify operational issues and work with the appropriate departments to resolve them in a timely manner.
• Partner with HR on staffing needs, employee concerns, attendance, performance issues, documentation, training, corrective action, and discipline when needed.
• Ensure employee related matters are handled consistently, fairly, and in alignment with company policies.
• Support supervisors in communicating expectations, documenting concerns, and holding employees accountable.
• Support company safety programs and ensure safety rules are followed and enforced consistently.
• Participate in incident reviews, safety walkthroughs, corrective actions, and improvement discussions.
• Review production processes and recommend improvements to reduce downtime, scrap, rework, inefficiencies, and unnecessary overtime.
• Identify and communicate the operational and financial impact of overtime, staffing, production delays, downtime, scrap, and rework.
• Partner with HR to review overtime usage and limit unnecessary overtime when possible.
• Support the rollout of new systems, procedures, policies, workflow improvements, and operational changes.
• Partner with HR and the Administrative Director on leadership development, employee accountability, performance improvement, and department follow-through.
• Communicate operational updates, employee concerns, project status, safety matters, and recommendations to company leadership.

Qualifications

• Prior leadership experience in a manufacturing, production, or industrial environment.
• Strong understanding of production flow, staffing, scheduling, safety, quality, and operational accountability.
• Experience leading supervisors, department leaders, and production teams.
• Strong communication, decision-making, problem solving, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Ability to hold teams accountable while maintaining a fair and respectful leadership approach.
• Working knowledge of production reporting, labor planning, overtime management, and process improvement preferred.

Requirements

• Ability to work on-site and be present in production areas as needed.
• Ability to walk, stand, and move throughout the facility regularly.
• Ability to work outside of normal business hours when operational needs require it.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding company, employee, customer, and operational information.
• Ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Must be able to delegate and distribute responsibility based on department functions
• Must be able to respond appropriately to urgent production, staffing, safety, or customer-related matters.