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Production Manager

Diamond Manufacturing Company
Allentown, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/26/2025
Job Description

Production Manager

Location: Near Allentown, PA

Compensation: $100,000 – $130,000 base bonus and comprehensive benefits

Are you a hands-on leader who thrives on building structure, elevating teams, and driving measurable results?

This established and growing custom manufacturer is seeking a Production Manager to lead its shop operations, bring modern processes and accountability to the floor, and guide a skilled workforce through an important phase of growth and cultural transformation.

The company operates in a highly customized, low-volume environment where every project is unique. With a team of welders, fabricators, painters, and finishers reporting through shop leads and a foreman, this role is pivotal in ensuring productivity, safety, and quality while shaping the culture of the operation for years to come.

Job Responsibilities

This is a chance to step into an operation that has strong demand and the support of a respected parent company, but also significant opportunity for impact. The right leader will:

  • Establish and document processes.
  • Elevate safety and compliance standards to modern expectations.
  • Lead with accountability while building buy-in and trust among experienced employees.
  • Partner with leadership to grow output, increase efficiency, and expand capacity.
  • Directly influence profitability, culture, and long-term success.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead, coach, and develop shop leads, foreman, and a team of skilled tradespeople.
  • Implement safety protocols, compliance standards, and accountability systems.
  • Plan and oversee daily production schedules to meet customer requirements.
  • Monitor productivity, quality, and costs to achieve department goals.
  • Partner with leadership on budgeting and P&L responsibility.
  • Foster strong communication and collaboration across operations, parts, and administration.
  • Champion continuous improvement and help move the operation into its next phase of growth.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • Proven experience in production or operations leadership, ideally in a job-shop, custom build, or industrial manufacturing environment.
  • Track record of implementing processes, safety standards, and accountability systems.
  • Skilled at balancing hands-on floor presence with strategic responsibilities.
  • Strong leadership and change management abilities, with a collaborative and coaching style.
  • Experience with welding or fabrication environments is highly preferred, though not required.

The Opportunity

This is an established, profitable business backed by a family-owned parent company with more than a century of success and a culture that emphasizes respect, humility, and long-term vision. You’ll find the close-knit environment of a smaller operation combined with the stability and resources of a larger organization.

This is not just a maintenance role — it’s a chance to make a visible impact, help double production capacity over the next several years, and shape the culture and performance of the team. For the right leader, it’s a career-defining opportunity with advancement potential.

Location:

Located near Allentown, Pennsylvania, this area offers the best of both worlds—proximity to a major metro with easy access to Philadelphia and New York, while still providing the balance, affordability, and community feel of a smaller city. With a strong base of skilled trades talent and a thriving manufacturing sector, it’s an ideal place to build both a career and a life.

If interested, apply now!

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