Job Description
Job Title : Production Manager / Production Operations Manager
Location : Beasley, TX
Type: Direct Hire / Full time
Pay + Benefits.
Responsibilities:
Shop Operations & Leadership
- Lead daily operations for the Air-cooled Heat Exchangers shop: staffing, floor coverage, production scheduling, and on-time delivery
- Achieve direct operating expense targets for the department and manage a profitable operation by minimizing manufacturing variances
- Ensure safe work practices and compliance with EHS and regulatory standards, lead safety huddles and near miss reviews and incident investigations
- Maintain standard work, work instructions, and visual management systems; ensure operators are properly trained
- Track and report KPIs (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People) through tiered daily management (Tier 1-3)
- Partner with Planning/Supply Chain to ensure material availability and communicate capacity constraints
- Lead root cause investigations for defects, delays, and downtime; drive corrective and preventive actions
- Develop and train supervisors and coordinators through increased responsibilities and career focused courses and stretch assignments
Continuous Improvement / Operational Excellence:
- Implement Lean tools such as 5S, Standard Work, Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Kanban, SMED, and Poka Yoke
- Lead waste elimination efforts across motion, waiting, overproduction, inventory, defects, transport, and over processing
- Facilitate Kaizen events and rapid improvement workshops with documentation of charter, baseline, and results
- Drive OEE improvement by partnering with Maintenance on preventive and predictive maintenance needs
- Use data to identify bottlenecks, establish takt time, optimize line balance, and improve flow
- Build continuous improvement capability across the team through training and coaching
Quality & Customer Experience:
- Partner with Quality to improve process capability (Cp/Cpk), reduce defect rates, and strengthen first pass yield
- Ensure adherence to customer specifications through layered process audits and mistake proofing
- Connect employee engagement and shop performance metrics to customer outcomes
Requirements:
- Experience: 5–8+ years in manufacturing operations; 3+ years leading a production area in fabrication/assembly environments.
- Lean/CI Experience: Measurable success applying Lean tools and leading improvement events.
- Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with fabrication/assembly processes such as sheet metal, welding, machining, and testing.
- Leadership: Strong coaching, communication, conflict resolution, and change management skills.
- Data & Systems: Proficient with Excel/Sheets and ERP/MES systems (JDE, SAP, Oracle, Epicor).
Preferred:
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt
- Experience implementing TPM and SMED
- Knowledge of ISO 9001, AS9100, or similar QMS
- Experience with EHS programs
- Experience managing a cost center or production budget
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, or related field - or equivalent experience.