Production Manager

Job Description The Production Manager oversees production schedules to ensure customer delivery requirements are met and the company's productive capacity is optimized, in addition to managing inventory levels.
Reports To : President and Director of Operations
Essential Functions :
**Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to read blueprints and concentrate on process steps.
- Interpret customer purchase orders and process specifications.
- Understand plating, grinding, and HVOF processes to schedule work across centers.
- Communicate Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) with Quality, Production, and Engineering Departments to ensure processing accuracy.
- Learn the Quality system to participate in customer quality audits and sales visits.
- Collaborate with Customer Service to prioritize jobs based on urgency, as determined by customer service and scheduling.
- Coordinate production aspects of products.
- Establish and maintain production schedules for each product, with support from the production scheduler and direction from the team lead, to meet release dates and document and enhance the Production product development process.
Competencies :
- Computer Literacy
- Problem Solving/Analysis
- Teamwork Orientation
- Ethical Conduct
- Organizational Skills
- Leadership
- Communication Proficiency
- Time Management
- Technical Capacity
Supervisory Responsibility :
This position manages all shop employees and is responsible for their performance management and hiring within all departments.
Work Environment :
This job operates in a professional office environment and on the production floor, routinely using standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Physical Demands :
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.