Durex Industries · 12 hours ago
Production Manager
Cary, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $140K/yr
3+ years expDurex Industries is a trusted custom thermal solutions supplier and engineering design partner with over 40 years of expertise in the thermal control business. The Production Manager is responsible for leading the manufacturing team, ensuring safety standards, and delivering customer orders on time while implementing solutions to improve production efficiency.
ElectronicsManufacturing
No H1B
Responsibilities
Ensuring all safety and environmental standards are met to keep associates’ accident-free
Motivating, mentoring, supporting and providing guidance to hourly production supervision and staff
Communicating regularly with operations manager regarding problems or issues impacting production
Evaluating machine resources to ensure continued production and minimal downtime
Establishing a balance between increased productivity and reduced costs of manufacturing operations
Setting productivity goals for the production team
Developing workflow policies and procedures that improve efficiency without compromising safety or quality
Ensuring adequate headcount to align with production capacity needs and scheduling of production staff overtime
Provide leadership and direction to production team to help accomplish order fulfillment objectives. Identifies areas/projects requiring attention, develops priorities, identifies work plans for staff and coordinates review of projects with production management
Provide manufacturing input to job estimates and approves new designs prior to release to production
Develop and implements key accountabilities for inventory in both the annual physical inventory and cycle count program
Monitor the production plan and modify as needed to maintain acceptable product availability and inventory levels. Collects, monitors and analyzes actual results against business variables of the forecasts such as sales to users, orders, shipments and factory and consigned inventory
Meets production planning financial objectives by helping forecast requirements; participate in preparing annual budgets; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions
Resolve production scheduling problems by analyzing reports; developing solutions
Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing production data and trends
Assures compliance to ISO 9001 standards and the Durex QMS
Understands vendor contracts and from time-to-time visits outside service partners
Foster a safety culture with all plant associates
Develop, implement and foster adherence to the manufacturing process routers and labor rates
Deliver production output to the scheduled plan
Execute stocking plans using methods such as Kanban, Min/Max etc
Drive maximum number of inventory turns as possible and still meet customer demands
Coordinate with materials team the annual physical inventory
Meet or exceed monthly on-time shipping goals and revenue dollars
Maintain a backlog that is under control and not adversely affecting the business
Assure that shop floor transactions and manufacturing orders are completed in the ERP system
Qualification
Required
B.S./A.S. Degree in operations management, industrial/manufacturing engineering or technology or related field preferred but not required
3 - 5 years previous experience as a production manager or higher level production supervision or in a similar role
Manufacturing background with experience in discrete manufacturing processes, primarily in welding, assembly, polishing, tubular forming and test specification adherence
Ability to demonstrate sound judgment, including maintaining highly confidential information
Be self-motivated, driven, flexible and adaptable to complete assigned tasks; results driven
Strong computer skills and software knowledge consisting of – Microsoft Office, Microsoft Dynamics or other related ERP systems such SAP, JD Edwards or Great Plains
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in a professional business environment verbally, electronically and written
Strong people management skills / experience providing training to planners is helpful
Highly organized, detail oriented and have excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship, both now and in the future
Preferred
Previous production supervision experience a plus
OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 not required but preferred
LEAN/Six Sigma background (Green Belt preferred)
Company
Durex Industries
Durex Industries is a design and manufacture of high quality electric industrial heater company.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase