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Milwaukee Tool · 3 hours ago

Production Manager

Greenwood, MS

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Milwaukee Tool is a company focused on providing a competitive service experience through its repair hubs. The Production Manager will lead a team to ensure production goals are met efficiently while maintaining safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness.

Consumer GoodsElectronicsIndustrialManufacturingSoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Create and maintain an environment obsessed with the timeliness and efficiency of world-class production organizations

Continually develop the team, increasing their skills, expertise, and cross-functional capabilities

Participate in and ensure proper day-to-day leadership of the production workforce

Understand incoming demand, shop capacity, and constraints to delivering required throughput and turn times

Lead daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual production planning and reviews

Build a staffing plan with sufficient depth and cross-training to support rapid growth in both capacity and capabilities

Set, monitor, and achieve KPIs needed to achieve overall goals

Collaborate with Human Resources and Training to hire, onboard, and train new employees

Collaborate urgently with supporting functions (inventory management, training, engineering, Quality, HR) to clear constraints that reduce throughput, lengthen customer turn time, or diminish cost-effectiveness

Build and maintain processes to identify quality issues before they ship to customers. Identify root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions

Implement a robust process audit regimen to ensure production workers are performing tasks as required. Collaborate with engineering, quality, and training functions to monitor and adjust as needed

Build and maintain an employee-driven safety culture

Integrate safety into the overall plant 5S regimen

Balance production and turn time needs with the more expensive remediation actions like tool replacements

Identify and execute efficiency and other cost savings opportunities

Collaborate with counterparts in in-plant and corporate functions to propagate best practices across the Service organization

Understand and use Milwaukee Tool’s operating systems (Microsoft AX and High Jump) and play an active role in problem escalations and resolution

Work closely, urgently, and systematically with in-plant and corporate counterparts to resolve transactional and recurring issues that prevent any of the above

Maintain a clean, organized, and visually appealing plant that enhances safety, productivity, morale, and customer visits/tours