Injection Molding Production Manager

Airlite Plastics is a premier, privately held, family-owned manufacturer headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Our family style and personal culture is what makes Airlite an amazing place to grow and build a successful career. Airlite's company values of unquestionable integrity and respect and appreciation for each other are at the core of our success! These values set a strong foundation to build on where we can 'wow' our customers with innovative products and sustainable solutions and continuously improve our processes and efficiencies.

Our product lines include rigid plastic containers and lids for food packaging and cosmetics, dry powder scoops, plastic drink cups, shipping containers, industrial strength insulated concrete forms (ICF) and sustainable permeable paving systems. As pioneers in our industry, focused on sustainable solutions, we strive to provide our customers with top-notch service and quality, which aligns with our award-winning products.

As Airlite continues to grow and expand, we are excited to add new roles across our organization to support increasing customer demand and future innovation. This is an exciting time to join our team and be part of a company investing in people, technology, and long-term success.

How would you contribute?

This role is a contributing member of our team located in Nazareth, PA. As a Injection Molding Production Manager you are a key to continued growth and success of Airlite. The Production Manager leads, directs, and coordinates manufacturing operations across multiple shifts within an assigned production department. This role is responsible for ensuring safe work practices, product quality, operational efficiency, and effective labor management while driving departmental performance and continuous improvement. The Production Manager provides leadership and direction to production teams, establishes operational standards, and develops, measures, tracks, and reports key performance indicators to achieve departmental and organizational objectives.

Essential Duties:

• Lead and manage daily production operations within the assigned department across multiple shifts, ensuring safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity.
• Effectively communicate, implement, and enforce company policies, standards of conduct, safety, quality, and compliance requirements.
• Provide collaborative leadership, coaching, and development to production supervisors and team members, fostering accountability, engagement, and performance.
• Establish, monitor, and report departmental KPIs to measure operational performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Manage production schedules, staffing, and labor resources to meet customer requirements, production demands, and operational goals.
• Oversee departmental operating costs, labor efficiency, and resource utilization to achieve budgeted performance objectives.
• Ensure production operations consistently deliver quality products on time and within established cost expectations.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and other departments to improve equipment reliability, minimize downtime, and resolve operational challenges.
• Partner with Human Resources to support staffing needs, employee development, performance management, and workforce stability.
• Develop, implement, and maintain operational procedures and standards to promote consistency, efficiency, and quality.
• Lead departmental continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, waste reduction, process optimization, and operational performance.
• Identify opportunities for new technologies, equipment improvements, and automation within the assigned department.
• Analyze departmental performance, address operational challenges, and implement corrective actions to achieve business objectives.
• Collaborate with other Production Managers and leadership to align departmental priorities with overall facility goals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Do you have what it takes? Airlite Plastics is a versatile employer; complacency is not one of our strengths! We work hard each day to ensure that equipment efficiency and customer satisfaction never leave our line of sight. Successful candidates for the role will possess the following:

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Previous experience managing production operations in a fast-paced manufacturing environment required.
• Previous manufacturing experience required; plastics injection molding, extrusion, or expanded polystyrene experience preferred.
• Experience managing production teams, operational performance, and continuous improvement initiatives preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to execute strategy, align goals and create an effective plan towards desired outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical manufacturing operating systems.
• Demonstrate ability to manage and lead large scale production teams.
• Capability to solve complex problems, utilizing strong critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Superior organizational skills and the ability to assemble resources needed to orchestrate multiple projects/activities and accomplish goals.
• Model a collaborative leadership style with the ability to build partnerships and influence others into action.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Outstanding presentation and facilitation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and consultative approach; tactful in dealing with people at all levels.
• Strong sense of urgency, self-motivated and positive.
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations and variable hours based on the needs of the business.
• Ability to actively lead change initiatives.
• Display highest ethical standards.
• Maintain the utmost level of confidentiality in dealing with sensitive information.
• Detail oriented, with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use hand dexterity to operate office equipment including computer keyboards; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the office work environment is typically quiet, when visiting the production floor the noise level may be loud.

Our Core Values Drive Us!

• Do you conduct yourself with unquestionable integrity?
• Do you demonstrate respect and appreciation for those around you?
• Are you innovative and strive to challenge the status quo?
• Do you strive for continuous improvement and to deliver the "wow" factor?
• Do you care about environmentally sustainable solutions?
• Do you take meaning and pride in a job well done?

What's in it for you? As a Full-Time employee, you will be eligible for the following benefits:

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life insurance
• Company paid short term disability
• Generous 401k match
• Generous Time Off
• Annual company activities