Title: Manager, Production
Direct Reports: Yes
Location: Holland, MI
Summary:A Production Manager leads and oversees shop floor operations to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality production while meeting internal and external customer demands. This role is responsible for driving operational performance, maintaining accountability and discipline, supporting continuous improvement initiatives, and developing production teams in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. The Production Manager plays a key role in achieving production, quality, safety, staffing, and cost objectives while fostering a positive and performance-driven culture.
Responsibilities:- Lead and manage daily production and rework operations to achieve production, quality, safety, and cost targets
- Maintain a safe, clean, and environmentally compliant work environment while promoting a strong safety culture
- Conduct daily production meetings to review KPIs, production output, yield performance, quality concerns, inventory status, staffing, and company updates with production teams and leadership
- Monitor daily staffing levels, manage attendance coverage, and develop contingency plans to support operational continuity.
- Coordinate and communicate effectively with off-shift leadership teams to ensure smooth operational transitions.
- Manage incident investigations, safety alerts, corrective actions, and safety training for employees, contractors, and visitors
- Lead department VIP tours and support internal and external customer visits as needed.
- Prepare and present department performance updates during monthly meetings with leadership and team members
- Support workforce management activities, including hiring, onboarding, retention, performance evaluations, promotions, corrective actions, and terminations for hourly team members.
- Coach, mentor, and develop supervisors, crew leaders, and operators to support career growth and succession planning.
- Conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings with direct reports to provide performance feedback, development support, and accountability
- Maintain positive employee relations and promote a collaborative, team-oriented work environment
- Ensure department procedures, work instructions, and compliance documentation are maintained through the internal document control system
- Monitor production specifications, quality samples, and process controls to ensure compliance with customer and engineering requirements
- Lead root cause investigations and implement corrective and preventive actions for quality and production issues.
- Track, maintain, and communicate departmental KPIs and operational performance metrics
- Support production planning activities to align staffing, materials, and operational priorities with production schedules
- Submit and manage Electronic Approvals (EAs) related to invoices, materials, equipment, organizational updates, and operational needs.
- Conduct thorough and timely Layered Process Audits (LPA) within assigned production areas
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve operational efficiency, productivity, quality, and employee engagement
- Maintain cleanliness at the worksite in accordance with 5S3R Standards:
- Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
- Right Location, Right Quantity, Right Container
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree required, MBA or MS preferred, or equivalent, relevant experience
Experience:- 7 to 10+ years of experience in complex mechanical assembly, tooling, and manufacturing in a highly automated setting
- 3 to 6+ years of experience leading and managing multiple processes
- Experience with large production lines and floor management
- Experience implementing 5S principles preferred
- Supervisor experience in LGESMI preferred
Skills:- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and manufacturing reporting systems preferred
- Strong leadership, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels
- Ability to work through ambiguity and make sound operational decisions under pressure
- Strong planning, organizational, and workflow management skills
- Ability to delegate responsibilities and drive accountability across teams
- Strong analytical and root cause problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to coach, develop, and motivate production teams
- Ability to work flexible hours, including off-shift support, weekends, or extended hours as operationally required
