The Director of Production is accountable for labor allocation, production scheduling, and job administration - building, closing and invoicing jobs. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure production objectives, schedules, and customer commitments are achieved.
Essential Responsibilities:
- 7-10 years of progressive production/operations leadership experience.
- Ensuring appropriate labor levels are available to meet production demand.
- Tracking labor by job to forecast labor requirements by job type and prevent labor mismanagement.
- Holding teams accountable for actual labor hours worked against each job.
- Maintaining daily accountability for work completion.
- Developing production schedules aligned with revenue expectations, communicating schedules to teams, and tracking progress monthly.
- Establishing and maintaining tracking spreadsheets to provide clear visibility into schedule status.
- Conducting regular production meetings with the team.
- Communicating directly with customers regarding schedule status.
- Maintaining a centralized shop production schedule accessible to all leads, providing visibility into current status and next steps.
- Holding production teams accountable for assigned jobs and resolving issues to maintain schedules and meet customer delivery expectations.
- Ensuring jobs are properly built and closed with complete and accurate work orders submitted by the Waller team.
- Ensuring jobs are closed throughout the month rather than batched at month-end, allowing for accurate and timely invoicing.
- Preparing monthly reports comparing actual results against budgeted revenue.
- Ensuring accurate cost and quantity data is provided to Accounting and supporting validation that parts are properly assigned to jobs.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration, Project Management, Manufacturing/Assembly process experience, or related field; preferred.
- Proven track record in managing complex operations and leading diverse teams.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Operates in a professional and/or business casual office environment.
- Routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptops, photocopiers/scanners, and smartphones.
- Evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.
- Ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English.
- Ability to lift up to 15 pounds
- Must be able to adhere to process protocol
- Strong work ethics of integrity and honesty striving for excellence in all activities employing accompanying communication.
This job description should not be interpreted as an exhaustive list of responsibilities or as an employment agreement between the employer and employee. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification and is subject to change as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.
