Production Manager - Wood Factory

The Production Manager is responsible for the leadership, operation and staffing of crews for the daily production of (Particleboard-MDF-OSD-Plywood-Hardboard-Softwood), Production Manager is responsible for ensuring safe operation of equipment, quality of (Particleboard-MDF-OSD-Plywood-Hardboard-Softwood),  achieving production targets, and ensuring that operator-level maintenance is performed on all equipment at a very high standard. To that end, these responsibilities include but are not limited to:

What you will do:

• Review processing schedules or production orders to make decisions concerning manufacturing requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering headcount and budgetary limitations and time constraints
• Direct and coordinate production and labor to gain margin improvement
• Develop or implement production tracking or quality control systems, analyze production, quality control, or other operational reports to detect production problems
• Ensure assigned departments perform tasks as outlined in Job Instruction Breakdowns, Quality Specifications, and Standard Operating Practices.
• Manage all daily production activities of the Mill
• Mentor assigned personnel and promote efficiency and build leadership and team skills
• Direct process improvements in the work area to gain efficiencies
• Communicate effectively with all team members and ensure miscommunications are minimized
• Coordinate with other senior staff members on personnel, safety, finance, and purchasing issues, looking for ways to increase and enhance all functional areas
• Work with Engineering to improve equipment up-time, capability and reliability through the passionate facilitation of TPM initiatives and the AWC SEE (Strategic Equipment Excellence) program as well as all five phases of Six-Sigma improvement or the Defining, Measuring, Analyzing, Improving, and Controlling of equipment related problems