Production Manager is responsible for leading Production Planning, Inventory Control, Warehouse Operations, and Material Readiness to ensure the organization has the materials, people, systems, and processes needed to meet operational commitments safely, accurately, and efficiently.
Focused on execution, accountability, daily operational ownership, and team development. The manager is expected to turn direction into completed action, reduce routine escalations to senior leadership, and build a more self-sustaining planning and warehouse organization. No sponsorship. No visas of any kind.
- Lead production planning by developing achievable production plans based on capacity, material availability, and operational constraints.
- Monitor production plan achievement and drive recovery actions with other departments when commitments are missed.
- Coordinate with Production, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, and other departments to surface constraints early and resolve issues effectively.
- Lead inventory control processes.
- Improve inventory accuracy.
- Manage warehouse operations.
- Reduce warehouse-controlled material shortages.
- Use ERP, WMS, Excel, Power BI, and other tools to improve visibility, accuracy, decision-making, and team efficiency.
- Define, track, and report KPIs related to planning, inventory, warehouse, material readiness, WMS adoption, and supervisor ownership.
Essential Duties andResponsibilities Cont.
- Coach, mentor, and develop supervisors, leads, and team members to improve ownership, follow-up, accountability, and independent problem solving.
- Create operating cadences, standard work, follow-up routines, and action tracking systems that support disciplined execution.
- Lead continuous improvement projects to completion and ensure improvements are sustained after implementation.
- Support staffing, manpower, equipment, tooling, training, and storage planning with data-driven recommendations.
- Promote a culture of safety, quality, teamwork, accountability, humility, and continuous improvement.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in manufacturing, warehousing, inventory control, production planning, materials management, logistics, military logistics, or a closely related operational environment.
- 3+ years of leadership experience with responsibility for employees, team leads, supervisors, or multiple operational functions. Experience leading supervisors preferred.
- Strong understanding of production scheduling, inventory control, material flow, warehouse operations, and ERP discipline.
- Experience using ERP systems to support operational execution. SAP experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to complete operational improvement projects and sustain results.
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Logistics, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent combinations of education, military leadership experience, technical training, and progressively responsible operational leadership experience may be considered.
- Manufacturing experience, engineer-to-order, or complex manufacturing environments.
- WMS implementation or optimization experience is preferred.
- Lean, 5S, continuous improvement, or process standardization experience is preferred.
- Experience building KPIs, dashboards, or operational review routines is preferred.
- Advanced Excel, Power BI, SAP, WMS, automation, and AI-enabled workflow experience is preferred.
