Production Manager - * This job is onsite in Pleasanton KS

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Insures fulfillment of all customer orders at the right Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
• Ensures that all required resources (staffing, equipment, methods, and materials) are present to produce the required output.
• Works with all required resources to create a level-loaded, mixed model schedule based on customer demand that minimizes resource needs.
• Interacts with other functions such as R&D, Marketing/Sales, Project Management, Supply Chain, Field Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Human Resources to facilitate a collaborative environment that ensures new products, processes, plans, promotions, and service requirements are fulfilled by the operation.
• Use Lean principles to drive continuous performance improvement and elite performance.
• Communicates a Lean vision, SQDC goals and drives the proper action to achieve those goals.
• Leads the plant with Lean “Managing for Daily Improvement” principles and practices that produce benchmark annual levels of improvement.
• Provides strong leadership and organizational stewardship
• Manages budgets that fulfill Fabcon objectives and leads the operations in the fulfillment of those objectives.
• Coaches the development of a winning (goal-achieving) team through recruitment, development, and performance management practices.
• Leads in accordance with Fabcon values and ensures that all personnel act accordingly.
• Insures the long-term operational health and viability of the facility through proper maintenance and long-term capital planning.
• Manages daily Production activities and provides effective work direction for supervising.
  

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS in Business, Operations, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5 years’ experience in manufacturing operations with at least three years in supervisory roles.
  
  

Other Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record managing manufacturing operations, and achieving Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost performance objectives.
• Strong knowledge of Lean with experience implementing Lean principles and methods.
• Experience operating according to budgets that satisfy corporate and plant objectives.
• Experienced recruiter, performance manager and developer of plant personnel at all levels.
• Experienced leadership and team development coach with a track record of yielding winning teams.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings.
• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills with personnel at all levels.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

Concrete industry experience

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel
• Office: Work with a computer for extended periods
• Plant: Move a minimum of 50lbs., spatial awareness/depth perception, walk, climb, bend at the waist, reach, forceful use of hand tools, vocal projection
  
  

Work Environment

Office/Plant: Quiet with some ambient noise, climate-controlled, fluorescent lighting. All types of weather conditions (year-round), dirt/dust, noise from heavy machinery/vehicles, vibrations from machinery and vehicles, loud noises, little to no climate control, varying amounts of light, stairs, and narrow walkways

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