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Production Manager
Pittsburgh, PA 15275 US
Job Description
The Production Manager will be an ideal team player who supports our client’s mission to build a convenient, safe, automated world and works to achieve their vision of continued growth and market expansion. Production includes but is not limited to the value-add processes for preparing sensors and kits to customer requirements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide supervision, training, and coaching for personnel; this includes holding 1:1 with direct reports
- Safe, accurate and timely management and execution of:
- Kitting and execution of orders
- Packaging to support customer orders and finished good stock
- Provide input for manufacturability for product developments
- Manage work schedule including, but not limited to:
- Prioritize product and quantity to meet customer demand (working with other operations managers)
- Assign work to the team for efficient production
- Analyze capacity to define needs for staffing
- Establish rates to measure, track, and improve labor efficiency
- Schedule, hire and allocate resources based on capacity analysis
- Define, measure, analyze, improve and control impactful KPIs (i.e., safety, quality, productivity measures), using action plans to manage any gap of actual to goal.
- Perform Root Cause analysis with Quality team and implement CAPA as necessary for inventory/material adjustments, material failures and process failures
- Manage labeling process and data to ensure products meet internal and external quality requirements
- Utilize continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate waste and support business requirements (i.e., Standard Work, 6S, Waste Reduction, Daily Management, Kaizen)
- Support Company Sustainability initiatives
- All other duties as assigned by Manager
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- Expert level proficiency in the use of an ERP system and Microsoft Office Suite
- Expert level communicator and ability to work in a self-directed manner
- Experience in production management (more than 3 years)