Production Manager
Pay: $75,000 to $85,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications
Location: Horseheads, NY
Job Type: Full-Time
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Production Manager to lead daily manufacturing operations and drive safety, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on manufacturing leader who enjoys developing teams, improving processes, and helping an operation achieve its production and customer goals.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and direct daily production operations while ensuring safety, quality, efficiency, and on-time delivery
- Develop and maintain production schedules based on customer requirements and available resources
- Supervise, coach, and develop production supervisors, technicians, machine operators, and production personnel
- Establish production goals and performance expectations while monitoring productivity, attendance, and performance
- Manage staffing levels, workforce planning, departmental resources, and budgets
- Monitor production and quality metrics and identify opportunities for improvement
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, efficiency, waste reduction, quality, and customer satisfaction
- Support root cause analysis and corrective actions related to production and quality concerns
- Partner with Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, and Customer Service teams to achieve operational goals
- Help identify opportunities to improve equipment performance, workflow, and resource utilization
- Ensure compliance with company policies, safety requirements, quality standards, work instructions, and PPE requirements
- Investigate safety incidents and help implement corrective actions
- Maintain accurate production records, reports, and KPIs
Qualifications:
- Previous leadership experience within a manufacturing or production environment
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes and production operations
- Experience developing production schedules and workforce plans
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and motivate production teams
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of budgeting, cost control, and operational efficiency
- Experience with ERP or production management software
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and computer systems
- Experience with continuous improvement initiatives
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, although equivalent manufacturing leadership experience may be considered
Equal Opportunity Employer
Express Employment Professionals is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
Pay: $75,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
