What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Manager position at Align Search Partners?
Production Manager
We are seeking an experienced Production Manager to lead day-to-day manufacturing operations for a growing organization. This individual will be responsible for driving safety, quality, productivity, and employee performance while developing a strong production team and supporting continued growth.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on manufacturing leader who enjoys being visible on the production floor, developing employees, improving processes, and holding teams accountable to operational goals. Bilingual English/Spanish is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee daily production operations to ensure safety, quality, productivity, and schedule goals are achieved.
- Manage, coach, and develop Production Supervisors, Leads, and production employees.
- Establish clear performance expectations and promote accountability across the production team.
- Monitor production KPIs including throughput, efficiency, downtime, labor utilization, scrap, yield, and quality.
- Identify production issues and implement corrective actions to improve overall performance.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, cost reduction, workflow, and process efficiency.
- Ensure employees follow company safety policies, SOPs, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Support staffing, scheduling, training, cross-training, performance management, and employee development.
- Lead daily production meetings and communicate priorities, performance, and operational expectations to the team.
- Help build scalable processes and a strong production culture as the company continues to grow.
Qualifications
- 5 years of manufacturing leadership experience, preferably within a high-volume production environment.
- Previous experience managing production teams, supervisors, and/or frontline employees.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production planning, KPIs, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to improve productivity, efficiency, quality, and employee performance.
- Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, hands-on manufacturing environment.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, or other continuous improvement methodologies preferred.
- Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.