Job Description
Job Description
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Manage and provide daily leadership to a production team of approximately 15–40 employees.
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Update production schedules and review employee timecards on a weekly basis.
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Participate in identifying staffing needs, employee selection, onboarding, and training processes.
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Mentor, coach, and develop team members to support individual and team performance.
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Conduct employee performance reviews and administer verbal and written warnings as needed.
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Effectively manage daily production challenges in a custom, make-to-order manufacturing environment where priorities and requirements may vary from day to day.
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Spend approximately 70% of the workday on the production floor. The work environment may be hot, cold, noisy, and dirty. Proper PPE is required while working in production areas.
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Provide team leadership consistent with the company's core values, mission, and purpose.
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Schedule and coordinate production operations to meet customer demand, from receiving and handling raw materials through processing, packaging, and finished-product handling.
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Oversee the packaging, handling, and transportation of finished products to ensure timely delivery and compliance with customer and company requirements.
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Plan and coordinate production activities based on available resources, operational constraints, customer demand, and company objectives.
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Develop production plans based on required output, quality standards, quantity, cost, available time, and labor requirements.
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Prepare work programs and direct production-control activities to achieve planned production goals.
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Coordinate and enforce quality-control procedures and ensure compliance with company safety requirements.
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Identify opportunities for new and improved production methods, processes, and products.
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Provide management and supervisory personnel with timely updates and recommendations regarding production activities, challenges, and opportunities.
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Recommend and implement operational improvements, including new techniques and processes, equipment and machinery purchases, and adjustments to staffing levels.
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Ensure the production of high-quality products that are delivered on time and within established budgets while maintaining strong employee relations and a safe working environment.
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Plan and coordinate departmental activities to support SQDC (Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost) targets and meet or exceed customer expectations.
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Drive continuous-improvement initiatives using LEAN, 5S, Visual Management, Total Quality Management (TQM), Hour-by-Hour Boards, Kaizen, Standard Work, and other continuous-improvement methodologies.
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Work effectively and respond quickly in a fast-paced production environment.
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Manage staffing levels in response to changing business needs, including adding or reducing headcount as necessary.
KSA's
- · Experience in working in a team environment.
- · Ability to effectively lead and motivate staff
- · Excellent communication and writing skills from production employees to executive level.
- · Must be able to prioritize, manage deadlines and make decisions
- · Excellent problem-solving skills
- · Must be bilingual Spanish/English
- · Management and supervisory principles and practices
- · LEAN Manufacturing Experience
- · Must be able to travel from time to time which includes outside of California
- · Will work weekends and occasionally 3:00am to support leads
- · Proficient with Microsoft tools like Outlooks, Excel and Word
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance