Production Manager

• Lead the operational organization as the primary operating driver of their program plan.
• Create a culture where supervisors and employees understand the goals, own the plan, and actively contribute to improvement.
• Use data, visual management, daily meetings, and disciplined follow-up to improve performance every week.
• Build supervisors into stronger leaders through coaching, accountability, and clear expectations.
• Demonstrate readiness for larger leadership responsibility by delivering measurable results in the assigned role.

• Lead production activities in compliance with Armtec’s Safety and Environmental Policies.
• Drive daily production execution to meet customer schedules, build plans, forecasts, and delivery commitments.
• Own production performance metrics, including safety, quality, schedule adherence, throughput, labor efficiency, scrap, rework, and cost per unit.
• Develop and mentor Production Supervisors so they can lead meetings, own department performance, and drive accountability at the production level.
• Establish manufacturing priorities for Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Materials, Planning, and other support functions.
• Partner closely with Maintenance to improve equipment availability, reduce unplanned downtime, improve MTBF, reduce MTTR, and support reliability-centered execution.
• Partner closely with Engineering to identify bottlenecks, remove process constraints, execute productivity projects, and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Lead daily management routines, production reviews, IPT meetings, and action-item follow-up to ensure the plant is aligned and moving forward.
• Drive continuous improvement, S.M.A.R.T. initiatives, material yield improvement, scrap reduction, labor productivity, and waste elimination.
• Create clear ownership for capital and productivity projects that affect production areas, including expected return, schedule, resources, and delivery of promised benefits.
• Evaluate and communicate the financial and operational impact of productivity, capital, manpower, and forecast decisions, including expected return, resources required, and timing of benefit realization.
• Use weekly graphs, scorecards, and trend reviews to measure improvement and ensure the organization is always moving forward.
• Use budget, forecast, labor, throughput, and productivity data to make decisions and drive accountability across the production organization.
• Build a cohesive production and support team that can solve problems quickly and execute with urgency.
• Actively participate in new product development, production launch, capacity planning, and labor estimates for proposals.
• Own and manage production budget responsibilities for assigned areas, including labor, overtime, consumables, scrap, rework, and controllable production costs.
• Make recommendations on manpower levels, staffing plans, shift structure, overtime, training needs, and resource allocation required to meet forecast, schedule, throughput, and productivity commitments.
• Approve production forecasts, build plans, manpower assumptions, and material/resource requirements in partnership with Planning, Materials, and Operations leadership.
• Communicate business objectives, forecast status, production risks, resource needs, and performance gaps to the Site Leader with clear recommendations and action plans.
• Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above.
• Understand and live by Armtec’s ethics and business conduct policies.

• Be visible on the floor and engaged with supervisors and employees.
• Set clear expectations, inspect results, and follow up with discipline.
• Treat production employees as the center of execution and ensure support functions are aligned to help them succeed.
• Use facts and data to identify the real constraint and drive practical action.
• Challenge the process when performance is not improving and create action plans to restore momentum.
• Hold the team accountable while developing people and building confidence.
• Lead change with urgency, consistency, and respect.

• A four-year college degree.
• Requires a minimum of 10 years of manufacturing/operational experience, preferably in a participative management environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead supervisors, develop employees, and improve manufacturing performance.
• Strong understanding of safety, quality, production planning, throughput, labor efficiency, OEE, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of production budgets, labor planning, manpower recommendations, forecasting, capital project support, productivity project tracking, and financial impact of operational decisions.
• A high energy level with excellent reasoning, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Must be driven to complete production commitments and improve performance over time.
• Must be dependable, responsible, accurate, and able to work effectively with people at all levels of the organization.
• Must be comfortable taking on a challenging assignment and delivering measurable improvement.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorization from the U.S. Government.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous company contribution
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA - Medical & Dependent Care)
• Life and Accident Death and Dismemberment Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Parent Leave Pay
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Vacation
• Sick Leave
• Holidays (8 paid holiday including holiday shutdown weeks in July and December)
• 401(k) matching
• Tuition Assistance

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