What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Manager position at Teknor Apex?
When Alfred Fain founded a small Rhode Island tire store in 1924, at the time no one could have predicted how Teknor Apex would become an international custom compounder sought out by companies around the world. After a nearly hundred-year journey that’s carried us through acquisitions and expansion, we now have nine U.S. locations, as well as operations in Belgium, Singapore, Germany, and China.
Throughout this global expansion Teknor has remained a privately held company, and today Fain’s grandson sits at the helm, maintaining the family’s tradition of fostering deep employee and customer relationships. These relationships are what allow us—together—to deliver customized compound solutions and help our customer’s create better products.
“Manufacturing is a team sport and we work together to achieve our goals.” ~Jon Fain, CEO
Join the team behind our custom compounds.
This position is responsible for planning, organizing, directing and managing staff, equipment, materials and activities used in the manufacturing of final finished products. This position secures, organizes, coordinates, and allocates necessary resources to ensure attainment of safety, quality, and production goals.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Promotes safety awareness and monitors safety programs and trends. Ensures that safety meetings are conducted, investigates and counter measures all safety problems and reports results.
- Apply LEAN manufacturing processes to improve existing systems, yield, production efficiency, productivity and quality.
- Develops plans for improvements and maintains compliance with all environmental regulations.
- Select and develop personnel and identify training needs. Counsels and motivates subordinates and maintain a clean, safe, working environment.
- Reviews, analyzes, and monitors daily and monthly production results and trends according to man, machine, material methods measured against plant goals. Develops resolutions, through troubleshooting which is corrective prevention.
- Directs and controls all departmental activities consistent within plant goals, i.e., safety production, waste, scrap, and human relations. Counter measures adverse trends, obtains and deploys resources as necessary. Maintains lowest costs for production.
- Audits SOP compliance, establishes plans, and controls points for achieving production requirements, communicates objectives to subordinates. Interacts and coordinates activities with support department, maintenance, technical support, and customer service department. Directs resources to improve and correct deficiencies and initiate countermeasures.
- Responsible for SAF follow-up.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in chemistry or engineering is preferred.
- Minimum 4 – 6 years of production management and/or process engineering experience.
- Must be able to evaluate complex situations, balancing production efficiencies with available equipment and assets.
This description is a summary of principal responsibilities and is not intended to include all duties that may be assigned.