Weekend Production Manager

About This Role

Oversee weekend production operations at a heavy industrial manufacturing plant, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency goals are met. This role involves managing supervisors and implementing process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all employees follow all safety procedures and protocols
• Manage daily production operations of heavy industrial products
• Lead, coach, and manage multiple supervisors to achieve their daily goals
• Set nightly production schedules based on product introduction, equipment efficiency, materials supply, staffing resources, and volume required to meet demand and to ensure maximum production quantity and quality
• Work closely and communicate with employees daily to ensure expectations for Quality, Production, Safety and On Time Deliveries are met or exceeded
• Overcome obstacles as they appear in achieving established safety, production, efficiency, and quality metrics
• Fill in for supervisors and manage individual production bays, when required by absences or vacations of production supervisors
• Manage personnel issues as they arise, with the help of HR and other support resources
• Ensure the production of sufficient quantities of quality products at or below budgeted production costs
• Assist in continuous improvement activities to improve the movement of materials through various production processes
• Produce and deliver annual performance reviews to each supervisor as part of our annual performance evaluation process
• Ensure 30-, 60-, 90-day reviews are accomplished by each supervisor for all new hires
• Review and approve PTO requests, weekly timecards, daily timesheets, and other required items by the appropriate deadlines

Requirements

• 5+ years of successful leadership experience
• Experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment
• Solid managerial and leadership attributes
• Thorough knowledge of blueprints and layouts
• High level of analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead multiple leaders/supervisors
• High degree of professionalism, dependability, maturity, and strong leadership characteristics
• Ability to work weekends
• Regular and predictable attendance
• Ability to work well with a team

Qualifications

• 5+ years of successful leadership experience, preferably at the superintendent or an equivalent level, in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment

Nice to Have

• Experience in a metal fabrication or welding facility
• Experience with flux and/or metal core welding
• Knowledge of blueprints related to transmission poles

Skills

* Required skills