Job Position: Production Manager
Job Location: Madison, WI
Clients Details –
My client is the Midwest’s leading graphic arts and print finishing experts since 1972. For 50+ years, they enables clients to decorate printed pieces with nearly every possibility imaginable.
Job Summary –
We are looking to hire a Production Manager with experience in the print and/or print finishing industry. The Production Manager is responsible for, but not limited to, the following tasks.
Responsibilities –
- Measures and improves existing production process repeatability and reliability to meet customer specifications and schedules.
- Ensures that a quality product is delivered to customers within established time frames.
- Responsible for all aspects of production personnel on all shifts and non-production areas: Die Room, Maintenance, Pre-Press, Purchasing, Quality and Shipping.
- Oversees that the master production schedule utilizes equipment and personnel in an efficient manner.
- Ensures production orders are completed and shipped to the schedule.
- Monitors and improves labor utilization and efficiency in all operations, and all production personnel.
- Monitors, reports and improves job costs. Works with Finance and IT to provide effective reporting for both operators running jobs and customer service and managers evaluating job costs.
- Ensures all operations are conducted to the QMS and encourages and monitors continuous improvement.
- Develops systems to create current labor capacity and forecasted labor needs. Ensures hiring and training to meet needed capacity and manning for new processes.
- Develop plans for future equipment capacity.
- Partners with HR to develop talent for succession planning
- Reviews and monitors production leadership performance.
- Provides feedback systems to customer service/scheduling for order status and updates and feedback systems to estimating for improving costing systems.
- Identifies present and future capital requirements and projects needed for production capacity.
- Works closely with Production, Customer Service, and Sales to meet output, productivity and responsiveness goals.
- Develops annual production budget.
- Management representative on safety committee.
- Others duties as assigned
Requirements
- BA in related field.
- Ten years’ experience in printing or related field.
- Five years’ experience in Production Management position.
- Good communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Good knowledge of printing and/or print finishing equipment.
Thanks
Steve Hopper
Brightpath Associates LLC
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