Industrial Production Manager

$98,000 - $116,000/Yr

Phihong USA - Fremont, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Fremont, CA

Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

About the position

The Industrial Production Manager is responsible for overseeing the materials procurement, purchasing, and production planning processes. This role ensures that production remains on schedule and within budget, utilizing inputs from MRP such as customer orders, forecasts, and buffer stock to create, monitor, and track production plans and schedules. The manager will research material shortages and coordinate with the purchasing organization to ensure that the material supply chain supports the production plan. Additionally, the manager will monitor actual production at contract manufacturers to ensure timely and effective execution of schedules. The position also involves streamlining the production process, analyzing assembly and production data, writing production reports, and creating strategies to enhance production efficiency. The manager will address any production and logistic issues, hire, train, and evaluate workers, and ensure that performance and safety requirements are met. Furthermore, the manager will assess the need for new machines or overtime work as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Manages materials procurement, purchasing, and production planning.
• Ensures production stays on schedule and within budget.
• Creates, monitors, and tracks production plans and schedules based on MRP inputs.
• Researches material shortages and coordinates with purchasing to ensure material supply.
• Monitors actual production at contract manufacturers for timely execution.
• Streamlines the production process.
• Analyzes assembly and production data.
• Writes production reports.
• Creates strategies for production efficiency.
• Fixes production and logistic problems.
• Hires, trains, and evaluates workers.
• Monitors workers to ensure performance and safety compliance.
• Determines the need for new machines or overtime work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related fields.
• Two (2) years experience in production management.
• Experience in production planning and management, logistics, and materials management.
• Proficiency in ERP software, specifically SAP.
• Experience overseeing production processes, negotiating budgets and deadlines, and improving workflow.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies and quality control.
• Ability to develop training programs for workers and collaborate to achieve production milestones.
• Experience in budget controls, resource assessment, and cost estimation.
• Experience in complex supply chain management and problem evaluation.
• Ability to analyze customer forecasts and manage order fulfillment.