Production Manager - 1st Shift

**ONLY LOCAL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONSIDERED!**

**You must meet the requirements listed below to be considered for this position!**

Contracted Operations / Louisville Packaging is a specialized, dedicated contractor based in Louisville, Kentucky, that blends, packages, and ships refrigerant gases for a major global industry leader. We are currently hiring a Production Manager to join our team.

Starting Salary: $55,000 - $60,000/yr (Pay based on experience)

General Summary:

Production Manager oversees manufacturing processes to ensure efficiency, quality, cost control, and timely completion of production goals.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Educational Background: Typically, a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or related fields is preferred, but we will also consider job experience.
• Technical Knowledge: Understanding of manufacturing processes, production planning, quality control, and safety standards.
• Leadership and Communication: Strong people management, problem-solving, and communication skills to motivate teams and resolve operational challenges.
• Analytical and Planning Skills: Ability to analyze performance data, forecast production needs, and implement continuous improvement strategies.

Minimum Requirements:

• Maintain an acceptable safety performance, with no recordable safety incidents for yourself, and establish this objective for each resource reporting to this position.
• Must be able to follow procedures and directions given.
• Read, understand, and follow the daily production schedule.
• Self-motivated.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to multitask.
• Detail-oriented to ensure quality product.
• Ability to work independently without close supervision.
• Must be able to work well with others.

Duties:

• Support and complete the tactics defined on the Operational Plan.
• Meet the training schedule for yourself, as well as ensuring a minimum monthly training performance of 95% within your department. Objectively ensure 100% compliance for regulatory training, including HAZMAT.
• Ensure 100% on-time completion of STOP and area audits.
• Assign personnel for the daily walk-through with the safety coordinator – report and correct any findings.
• Ensure that the Supervisors maintain and review attendance records – completing absentee forms due to an employee’s absence and turning in an overtime report for each week.
• Conduct daily turnover between 1st and 2nd shift supervisors.
• Supervise production teams, including supervisors and operators, provide coaching, conduct performance evaluations, and ensure staff is trained in safety and quality standards.
• Develop and maintain through your supervisors a workforce to meet peak demand, ensuring production supervisors hold employees accountable for meeting daily quota.
• Ensure Corrective Action Requests (CARs) are issued, documented, and investigated in a timely manner, assigning supervisors based on severity.
• Ensure Process Safety and Risk Management guidelines are known, understood, and followed in the flammable packaging area.
• Responsible for leading the nonconforming, recovered heel ton processing and slow-moving inventory meeting and metrics.
• Attend the Daily Operation Morning meeting (DOM), ensuring the production department reports daily numbers.
• Attend monthly Safety Assurance Council (SAC) and Quality Assurance Council (QAC) meetings – reporting anything to assist with improvement.
• Attend quarterly performance reviews for all production departments.
• Assign performance appraisals to Supervisors for any temporary employees who are eligible for full-time hire. Conduct performance appraisals to the supervisors reporting to this function.
• Attend any disciplinary action process (CARs, written warnings & verbal warnings) and ensure the disciplinary action has been completed on time.
• Communicate any schedule changes with the scheduler.
• Serve as support and backup when needed for SAP and process orders.
• Lead the effort troubleshooting and collection of data of the new project for digital torque wrenches and report results to Plant Manager.
• Responsible for ensuring the production-assigned leak detectors are inventoried and calibrated as scheduled.
• Attend the procedure workload meeting as scheduled.
• Maintain records and enter serial numbers into spreadsheet for flammable Returnable Cylinders (RETs).
• Participate (voluntarily) in the monthly inventory (Saturday).
• Ensure that through your supervisors we maintain inventories of items needed for production:
• Inventory of paint must be turned in every Wednesday to Purchasing agent.
• Inventory of labels must be turned in once a month to Purchasing agent.
• Production Supplies Inventory list must be turned in every week on Thursday.
• Coordinate pallet inventories (40X48, SRC, raggle sticks, TON pallets, etc.) in conjunction with Warehouse Supervisor.
• Responsible for picking and signing out production supplies after they have been received by the Receiving clerk and put away at the receiving cage on time.

EOE

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Salary : $55,000 - $60,000