Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for efficiency and excellence in production operations? We're looking for a Production Operations Manager to join our team!

As a key player in our production team, you'll oversee and coordinate all aspects of operations, ensuring smooth processes and top-quality results. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a knack for optimizing workflows, we want to hear from you!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage personnel, training, job priorities, scheduling, and inter-departmental collaboration for all production operations to achieve ever-greater efficiency and reduce days on the floor per job
• Lead and cultivate a cohesive production team; select, develop, and train new employees; prepare and administer employee performance reviews and determine goals for each department
• Act as a liaison in meetings and planning sessions with engineering to ensure smooth transitions between the engineering process and the fabrication and assembly process; work with engineers to schedule jobs for maximum efficiency and quickest turnaround possible
• Contribute to leadership meetings to identify company-wide priorities, determine job scheduling, troubleshoot, etc.
• Conduct Daily Shop Meetings to set job priorities for the day, evaluate the progress of jobs, and anticipate possible problems
• With input from department leaders, schedule flow of jobs through production for optimal efficiency; monitor progress throughout the day to ensure standards for timeliness and production value are met; solve problems potentially affecting ability to achieve on-time shipments; make necessary adjustments to priorities throughout the production floor to accommodate hot jobs
• Maintain the jobs' date
• Make daily notes for shop meeting after review of status of current jobs
• Update the system to reflect shipped jobs, new jobs, job status changes
• Review ERP system
• Supervise daily and monthly maintenance of equipment and update maintenance calendars to reflect maintenance completed and maintenance upcoming
• Encourage improvements in tools, machining, and process; implement change to benefit overall production operations

QUALIFICATIONS

• 4-year technical degree is preferred; high school diploma is required
• 5+ years of previous manufacturing experience is required
• Attitude: Strong desire to succeed as part of a team; interest in contributing to a positive company culture
• Leadership Skills: Ability to keep peers and direct reports motivated, resolve conflicts skillfully and professionally, and make difficult decisions under pressure
• Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Skills: Ability to foresee and correct potential problems using good logic and reasoning; able to identify strengths and weaknesses of approaches to problems and potential solutions
• Administration and Management: Familiarity with business and management principles involved in strategic planning, production methods and coordination of people and resources
• Communication and Problem Solving: Ability to identify problems and review related information with colleagues to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Mechanical Skills: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance
• Technical and Design Skills: Familiarity with design techniques, tools, and principals involved in the production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
• Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, lean manufacturing principles, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture of parts
• Computer Skills: Ability to navigate and use a desktop computer, including Microsoft 365 and ERP system