Production Manager 2nd Shift

OTR Engineered Solutions; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

OTR Engineered Solutions, Inc. seeks a Production Manager to lead daily production across day and second shifts, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time delivery in a busy fabrication environment.

You will apply Lean principles, 5S, visual management, and Kaizen to improve throughput and efficiency while engaging frontline teams. You will partner with the Plant Manager and cross-functional teams—Production Planning, Quality, Maintenance—to provide the people, materials, information, and processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or four years’ related experience.
• Experience leading Lean initiatives and shop-floor teams.
• Strong communication across levels of management.
• Ability to multi-task and adapt in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Owns and manages all daily production activities across both day and second shift.
• Ensures production schedules, customer commitments, and internal deadlines are achieved.
• Leads the daily execution of production priorities, balancing aftermarket and OEM needs.
• Monitors production performance, throughput, labor utilization, downtime, and schedule attainment.
• Identifies and addresses constraints, bottlenecks, and issues before impacting commitments.
• Maintains a strong presence on the shop floor and provides hands-on leadership.
• Leads daily production meetings and coordinates with the Production Planner.
• Champions Lean Manufacturing principles and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establishes and maintains 5S standards and visual management systems.
• Drives waste reduction, flow, quality and cost reduction initiatives.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

5S

Kaizen

Visual Management

Team Leadership

Project Management

Time Management

Communication

Problem Solving

Continuous Improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree or four years’ related experience

Lean Manufacturing experience

Job description

The Production Manager oversees daily production across first and second shifts, ensuring safety, efficient on-time execution while maintaining high standards for quality, productivity, and employee engagement. This role leads Lean Manufacturing initiatives, including 5S, visual management, work-cell optimization, waste reduction, standard work, flow, and continuous improvement. The Production Manager partners with the Plant Manager and cross-functional teams to ensure production has the people, materials, information, and processes needed to meet operational goals. The Production Manager reports to the Plant Manager and serves as the primary leader for production execution across both shifts.

Essential Functions:

• Owns and manages all daily production activities across both day and second shift.
• Ensures production schedules, customer commitments, and internal deadlines are achieved.
• Leads the daily execution of production priorities, balancing a fast-paced aftermarket business with the more structured requirements of OEM production.
• Monitors production performance, throughput, labor utilization, downtime, and schedule attainment.
• Identifies and addresses production constraints, bottlenecks, and issues before they impact customer commitments.
• Ensures production activities are properly prioritized and aligned with the production schedule.
• Maintains a strong presence on the shop floor and provide hands-on leadership to production teams.
• Ensures effective communication and accountability between shifts.
• Leads and facilitates daily production meetings to review priorities, performance, constraints, and required actions.
• Coordinates daily production requirements with the Production Planner to ensure the schedule is realistic, achievable, and aligned with available resources.
• Works closely with Production Planning, Quality, Maintenance, and other support functions to ensure production can execute effectively.
• Monitors progress throughout the day and take corrective action when production begins to fall behind schedule.
• Champions Lean Manufacturing Principles throughout the facility.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, efficiency, quality, flow, and cost reduction.
• Establishes and maintains strong 5S standards though the production environment.
• Identifies and eliminates waste, including excess motion, defects, and unnecessary processing.
• Leads or participates in Kaizen events and other structured continuous improvement activities.
• Establishes visual management systems that allow teams to quickly understand production status, priorities, and performance.
• Uses production data and performance metrics to identify opportunities and drive measurable improvements.
• Promotes a culture where employees are encouraged to identify problems and participate in developing solutions.
• Other duties can be assigned based on company needs and employee capabilities.
• Business Acumen.
• Project Management
• Time Management
• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility
• Flexibility
• Stress Management/Composure

Required Skills / Abilities:

• BS degree or equivalent; or 3 to five years’ related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills.
• Be knowledgeable of safety, quality, productivity, demand creation, inventory, and stewardship processes.
• Multi-tasking and organized.
• Able to maintain a dependable and flexible work schedule.
• Ability to create accountability and to lead by example.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position oversees the operations of a particular facility. The role is responsible for all operations within the facility.

This position operates in a manufacturing environment. At times, the employee will be exposed to manufacturing environment, including forklift traffic, fumes, noise, and operating manufacturing equipment.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to squat. Must be able to bend at the knees, and flexible enough to work in awkward positions.
• Must be able to stand and work on your feet for extended periods of time.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear.
• Must be able to tolerate fluctuations in temperature and humidity.
• Must be able to work with hands and have the manual dexterity to use misc. hand tools (i.e. hammer, screwdriver etc.).
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8am-5pm. May also require some weekend work.

Travel:

No travel is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or four years’ related experience or training; or equivalent

combination of education and experience

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Lean Manufacturing experience

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Other job duties and responsibilities may also be assigned by the incumbent’s manager at any time based upon Company need.

OTR Engineered Solutions, Inc is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected classification or status.