Senior Production & Warehouse Leader - Lean, KPI-Driven

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Arlington, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC’s client in Arlington, TX seeks a Senior Production Manager to lead manufacturing, production and warehouse operations. You will drive operational excellence using Lean Six Sigma, data-driven decision-making, and disciplined execution across safety, quality, delivery, cost and people performance.

You will oversee production throughput, inventory accuracy, labor efficiency, and capacity planning while developing scalable systems to support growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of manufacturing/production or warehouse leadership experience.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of 5S, Kanban, standard work and line balancing.
• Experience with time studies, capacity planning, bottleneck analysis and KPIs.
• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems and advanced Excel.
• Proven ability to lead supervisors and frontline teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead production, configuration, and warehouse operations while meeting safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people-performance targets.
• Track and improve KPIs: efficiency, cycle time, First Pass Yield, Defects per Unit, On-Time In Full, inventory turns, labor utilization.
• Conduct time studies, capacity analysis, and labor modeling to improve line balance and throughput.
• Lead root-cause analysis using 5-Why, Fishbone, DMAIC.
• Drive Lean initiatives including 5S, Kanban, standardized work, waste reduction, inventory optimization.
• Develop production schedules, labor plans, and sequencing strategies.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Materials, and Supply Chain to resolve constraints.
• Support new product introductions through manufacturability analysis and pre-production builds.
• Develop dashboards and scalable controls for visibility and decision-making.
• Lead, coach and develop supervisors and frontline employees.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Warehouse leadership

Lean Manufacturing

Lean Six Sigma

5S

Kanban

Standard work

Root-cause analysis

ERP/MRP

Advanced Excel

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC’s client in Arlington, TX seeks a Senior Production Manager to lead manufacturing, production and warehouse operations. You will drive operational excellence using Lean Six Sigma, data-driven decision-making, and disciplined execution across safety, quality, delivery, cost and people performance.

You will oversee production throughput, inventory accuracy, labor efficiency, and capacity planning while developing scalable systems to support growth.