Manufacturing Production Manager

Job description

Steripax Inc Huntington Beach, California, United States

About this position

DEPARTMENT: Production

REPORTS TO: Director of Operations

JOB SUMMARY: Manages and coordinates all production activities, operations, and staff to ensure conformance to established procedures; implements practices that maximize production efforts to improve the overall effectiveness and financial performance of the production function.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reviews, analyzes, modifies, and implements efficient and effective department processes, policies, and procedures

Manage the capacity of the manufacturing processes

Responsible for maintaining the production job schedule

Maintains knowledge of machine capacity and develops solutions for efficient utilization

Interfaces with maintenance and/or engineering to ensure all equipment in maintained in top condition

Troubleshoot and solve manufacturing problems, involves other departments and/or personnel as needed

Interfaces with Quality department to ensure highest degree of final quality and develop new and better-quality methods

Ensures approved manufacturing methodology is being followed

Implement lean standards and improvements

Identifies, documents, and implements opportunities for continuous improvement

Develops and communicates goals and key initiatives to improve plant performance and success

Maintains knowledge of the skills of the labor force to manage in time of employee absence or unexpected peak demands

Interfaces with Director of Operations to control operating costs

Develops, implements, and monitors department budget; manages expenses within approved budget constraints

Support plant budget by controlling labor and overtime, inventory, supply spending, waste, etc.

Hires, trains, supervises, motivates, and develops production staff; manages schedules and workflow

Assigns duties and monitors quality of work; assures staff conforms to organizational policies and procedures and government regulations

Provides day-to-day guidance and oversight of subordinates; actively works to promote and recognize performance.

Keeps up to date on overall activities of the team, identifying problem areas and taking corrective actions.

Ensures all personnel are trained and institutes reinforcement training when necessary

Reads travelers (work orders) and obtains (purchases if required) substrates, and related supplies as needed to produce jobs

Maintains inventory levels of substrates/ supplies

Works in collaboration with the warehouse department on housekeeping, inventory and other needs

Ensures all safety rules and regulations are followed; investigates accidents in a timely, accurate, and complete manner

Coordinates and manages all safety training

Maintains a safe work environment by taking corrective action to solve unsafe work practices or environmental issues

Champion all aspects of personal and facility safety including safety engagement, participating as a lead on a safety committee, instill a sense of self-responsibility for safety within the department and ensures the safe use of equipment, PPE and other safety related items

Prepares required reports and correspondence

Performs other related duties as assigned by management

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Directly supervises ~3-5 employees within the Production Department

Indirectly supervises 30-40 employees within the Production Department

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws

Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s Degree required: Engineering or Operations preferred

Minimum 5 years of manufacturing experience required

Proven ability to run a manufacturing operation required

Lean manufacturing formal training and/or experience preferred

Working knowledge of quality procedures in the medical industry preferred

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Continually required to stand

Continually required to walk

Occasionally required to sit

Continually required to utilize hand and finger dexterity

Continually required to talk or hear

Continually work near moving mechanical parts

Occasionally exposure to extreme heat or cold (non-weather)

While performing the duties of this job, the noise level in the work environment is usually very loud (the production floor is considered a sustained loud manufacturing environment that requires hearing protection)

The employee must occasionally lift and /or move more than 50 pounds / frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds / continually lift and/or move up to 25 pounds

Specific vision abilities required by this job include: Close vision; Distance vision; Color vision; Peripheral vision; Depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Required to wear PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) including, but not limited to: gowning, hair nets, beard covers, eye protection, hearing protection, and any other necessary PPE

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$115,000 - $120,000 per year.

Medical, dental, vision insurances, 401k with company match, company paid holidays, paid time off, and sick time.

This is position is fully on site in Huntington Beach, CA.

Each candidate for this position must have a clean and neat appearance, observe good personal hygiene and conform to the dress code in keeping with SteriPax's clean manufacturing environment.The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. it is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or physical requirements. nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.