2nd Shift Production Department Manager

Job Title: Department Manager

Band: Professional

FLSA: Exempt

Reports to: Plant Production Manager

Department: Production

Schedule: 3:30p.m. - 2:00a.m. Monday-Thursday

Job Summary:

The Production Department Manager is responsible for the supervision of the production lines and ensuring all procedures are followed in compliance with company policies while achieving the highest level of safety, quality and on time delivery of the products.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Oversees the day-to-day workflow of production staff.
• Manages non-exempt production staff.
• Conducts performance evaluations that are timely and constructive.
• Handles discipline of employees as needed and in accordance with company policy.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Cultivate a safety culture where unsafe acts are not tolerated, and employees and management have a common goal of zero injuries.
• Lead daily production meetings
• Deploy and rotate personnel in the most effective manner to optimize efficiency to ensure production schedules are met
• Ensure daily reporting is accurately completed and recorded as required (i.e., department production reports, attendance/staffing, etc.)
• Ensure associates have the needed raw materials, instructions, machine availability, and training to meet daily production requirements, and obtains information from prior shift supervisor regarding operating problems.
• Observe associates for effectiveness, efficiency, performance safety practices, following standard work to reduce scrap, usage, and waste.
• Evaluate process, work performance on each associate, and make recommendations improvement.
• Keep records during each shift on attendance, absence, call ins, and over time schedule.
• Handle the first step grievances within assigned shift in accordance established policy.
• Assures that all the manpower, raw materials, and equipment is on hand and running to produce the highest quality product, in the most efficient, and timely manner.
• Perform other tasks that are reasonable to the job as requested by management.
• Perform routine and on-going monitoring of machinery/equipment use within area of responsibility to ensure that machine safeguards/controls are effectively in place whenever machines are operating in a production mode.

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