Production Manager

Palletone - Siler City, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Siler City, NC

Wood Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Production Manager is responsible for overseeing the management and coordination of a plant's manufacturing operations or multiple department operations, ensuring alignment with cost, profit, and productivity objectives. This role involves developing production schedules for the area of responsibility, coordinating activities with other departments, and forecasting inventory requirements. The Production Manager formulates both long and short-range business plans and goals, ensuring that all plant assets in their area are properly managed and safeguarded. In this position, the Production Manager will staff assigned operations to meet production levels consistent with cost objectives and ensure that employees are adequately trained. They will supervise activities directly or through supervisors and lead operators, coaching and developing subordinates, evaluating performance, and initiating corrective actions as necessary. Establishing work center operation efficiency standards is crucial, as is monitoring performance against established efficiency and quality standards, taking corrective actions when required. The Production Manager will also be responsible for ensuring that performance reviews are conducted in accordance with company policy, maintaining yard conditions and housekeeping to company standards, and monitoring expenses within their area of responsibility. Analyzing production operations and workflow to develop improvement recommendations is a key aspect of this role. Additionally, the Production Manager will manage inventory, ensuring proper rotation in accordance with operational policy, and participate in month-end inventory processes. They will ensure that machinery is properly maintained, order supplies, initiate purchase orders, and approve timecards and incentives. Managing finished goods packaging and preparing various reports and logs as required are also part of the responsibilities. Participation in the Safety Committee process is essential to ensure that operations comply with company and OSHA policies, practices, and procedures, as well as federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Formulates long and short-range business plans and goals.
• Ensures that all plant assets in area of responsibility are properly managed and safeguarded.
• Staffs assigned operations to meet production levels consistent with cost objectives.
• Ensures that employees are properly trained.
• Supervises activities directly or through supervisors and lead operators.
• Coaches and develops subordinates, evaluates performance and initiates corrective action as required.
• Establishes work center operation efficiency standards.
• Monitors performance to established efficiency and quality standards and initiates corrective action as required.
• Ensures performance reviews are conducted in accordance with policy in area of responsibility.
• Ensures that yard conditions and housekeeping conform to Company standards in area of responsibility.
• Monitors expenses for area of responsibility and initiates corrective action as required.
• Analyzes production operations and workflow and develops improvement recommendations.
• Monitors output, cuts yields and scrap to ensure efficient resource utilization and initiates corrective action as required within area of responsibility.
• Manages inventory in area of responsibility, ensures inventory is rotated in accordance with operational policy, and participates in month end inventory.
• Ensures that machinery in area of operation is properly maintained.
• Orders supplies, initiates purchase orders, and approves timecards and incentives.
• Manages finished goods packaging as required.
• Prepares various reports and logs as required.
• Participates in the Safety Committee process and ensures that assigned operations are performed consistent with Company and OSHA policies, practices and procedures.
• Ensures that operations are performed with Federal, State and local laws and regulations, and Company policy and procedure.

Requirements

• Preferred bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent.
• Minimum of two years of experience as a production supervisor or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Preferred experience and knowledge of UFP's organization, culture, and product lines.

Benefits

• Profit sharing based on local operation's performance.
• Collaborative work environment with hands-on experience.
• Opportunities for career advancement and development.