Production Manager

Overview

As Production Manager, you lead continuous manufacturing operations to deliver safety, quality, and efficiency targets. You will drive standardization across shifts, ensure regulatory and company compliance, and foster accountability and engagement to enable sustainable operational excellence. You’ll coach shift managers, monitor performance, and implement improvements to reduce costs and spoilage. This role sits at the heart of a safety- and quality-focused plant culture that values teamwork and continuous improvement. You will shape how operations scale and deliver consistent value to customers and the business.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health and safety compliance across all shifts
• Drive cross-shift standardization for consistent processes and outcomes
• Lead, coach, and mentor shift managers to maintain process compliance and quality
• Monitor plant performance with management indicators and implement corrective plans
• Participate in management initiatives to improve safety, quality, productivity, and cost
• Foster high employee engagement and a culture of excellence and accountability
• Oversee training and development programs aligned with global standards
• Promote autonomous maintenance and preventive practices to maximize asset utilization
• Ensure compliance with policies, standards, and Code of Ethics
• Analyze production processes for cost/resource optimization and implement improvements
• Encourage root-cause problem solving using BOE-defined tools
• Maintain positive relationships with employees, unions, and peers

Key requirements

• Broad training in a related field usually acquired through college or work-related experience
• Minimum 4 years in an industrial manufacturing environment
• Experience managing teams in a continuous operation setting
• Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred
• Ability to implement BOE standards, Gemba, 5S, and other operational excellence tools
• Training and development skills including mentoring and performance evaluation
• Financial acumen: analyzing production costs, HR utilization, and material consumption
• Fluent English

• leadership and mentoring
• communication
• problem solving
• BOE-defined tools
• Gemba
• 5S

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