JOB TITLE:  Production Manager

LOCATION:  Salinas, CA

Job #:  7312
 

Position Summary:  Plan, direct, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality and quantity specifications.

Essential Functions:

• Develop budgets and approve expenditures for supplies and material ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.

• Review processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and dusty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.

• Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.

• Train, evaluate, and discharge staff and resolve personnel grievances.

• Initiate and coordinate inventory and cost control programs.

• Prepare and maintain production reports and personnel records.

• Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure finish products are of prescribed quality.

• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems.

• Review plans and confer with research and support staff to develop new products and processes.

• Coordinate and recommend procedures for facility and equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines.

• Maintain current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies.

• Direct and coordinate production, processing and distribution activities of industrial organization.

Qualifications:

• Associates’ Degree (two year college or technical school) and/or three to seven years related

• Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.

• Ability to organize and direct oneself and effectively supervise others.

• Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.

• Ability to organize and direct a project to completion.

• The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.

• Ability to take calculated risks or to stretch the limits of comfort zones.

• The trait of being comfortable in making decisions for oneself.

• Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.

• Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.

• The ability to formulate a sound decision using the available information.

• Ability to influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions.

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