Emerge is actively recruiting for a Production Manager in Rochester, NY.  Our client is a global manufacturing company that specializes in the production of food. The Production Manager is a member of the Operations leadership team and is responsible for establishing the direction and providing the leadership for the Production Department. The Production Manager will be responsible for delivering a strong and robust Manufacturing Excellence Program through Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM), Total Quality Management (TQM), and Lean-Six Sigma manufacturing philosophy to ensure a balanced delivery against the strategic Quality, Cost, Delivery, Environmental-Health-Safety, and People pillars. The Production Manager will report directly to the Plant Manager and offer a generous base salary, excellent benefits, 401K and room for advancement.  If you are interested in joining a growing company that values passion and employee development, please apply NOW to our Practice Director, Lisa Capizzi at Lisa.Capizzi@Emerge360.com.

Job Duties for the Production Manager in Rochester, NY:

• Maintains a safe and clean work environment to be audit-ready at all times by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures, and developing timely corrective actions for all non-compliant situations
• Supervise and evaluate the performance of production personnel: provide feedback, set goals, perform coaching or counseling, hold direct reports accountable, create development plans and record-keeping of attendance points, paid time off, training, etc.
• Maintains workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
• Communicates and coordinates between the different departments (quality, R&D, warehouse, maintenance, and production).
• Production Manager works with Operations, R&D, QA/QC, Procurement, and Planning colleagues to ensure an optimal schedule and then safe, efficient, timely delivery of the schedule.
• Ensures production meets or exceeds quality standards by adhering, but not limited to SOPs, FDA, HACCP, GMP, and OSHA regulations.
• Monitor operating specifications of each workstation. Respond to and troubleshoot abnormalities in daily operations.
• Manage the production budget, monitor production expenses, and estimate costs and budgets.
• Determine the number of necessary resources: workforce, production supplies, raw materials, packaging, etc.
• Create maintenance work requests. Prioritize work orders together in collaboration with maintenance. Prioritize and assist in defining maintenance requirements including spare parts, preventative maintenance, and work instructions.
• Regularly lead employee meetings for business updates, safety, quality, cost, and customer service performance and priorities with all production employees.
• Monitor employees’ work performance and attitude and perform formal reviews as required by policy. You are responsible for the performance reviews of your direct reports.
• Drive and empower employee engagement, training, and development to maximize safety, quality, and productivity.
• Troubleshoot to identify and assist in developing solutions for issues affecting production work cell safely and efficiently thereby delivering a quality product at agreed costs.
• Leads continuous improvement projects and activities as required. Utilizes regularly TPM, TQM, and Lean Six Sigma principles and tools. Educate and train employees utilizing Lean principles.
• Participates in the capital process in the Production Department including identifying, developing, submitting, and implementing CAPEX projects. Approve purchase of equipment.
• Implement production control systems consistent with lean material flow systems, including pull systems, and level scheduling.
• Weekly / Monthly reporting on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Production. Develop daily, weekly, and monthly reporting tools to measure and visualize the production performance. Use available reporting tools (SAP, BI, COGNOS, Lumira, E-maintenance, etc.)
• Inventory management of the production shop floor through SAP. Ensure process orders are closed out in a timely manner. Verify raw materials are consumed correctly. Resolve and escalate process order issues in SAP.
• Develop and implement a plan to continuously increase productivity to consistently the production budget.
• Develop and implement effective root cause – corrective actions within the Manufacturing function.

Requirements for the Production Manager in Rochester, NY:

• Minimum: 4 Years / Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, or Business.
• 5 years of relevant experience in operations with at least 3 years in a managerial role experience in a production/operations environment.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills.
• Demonstrated use of Continuous Improvement, TQM, and/or Lean tools including six sigma, value stream mapping, 5S, Root Cause Analysis, Pareto, DMAIC, Kaizen events, etc.
• Must have a proven track record of driving performance in production departments including capacity increases, productivity improvement, and workforce optimization.
• Must have a working knowledge of OEE principles and ways to use the information to eliminate repetitive downtimes and drive performance.
• Knowledge of master scheduling practices and capacity analysis.
• Experience in dealing with a unionized workforce.
• Strong experience in the areas of project management and maintenance
• Proficient in spreadsheets, databases, and presentations including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint
• Experience working with SAP.
• Exceptional written & verbal communication skills. Written and verbal Spanish is a plus.
• Proven team player, able to work collaboratively at all levels and builds partnerships with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent organizational, planning, influence, presentation, and follow-up skills.

If you are qualified for this position, please click “apply now”. Thank you in advance, however, only qualified candidates will be contacted. #INDDH

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