Position Overview:

The Production Manager is responsible for the company's production operations, including assembly, quality control, painting and warehouse. Implement company guidelines, policies and procedures; business and personnel activities. The Production Manager is responsible for supervision, training, motivation and evaluation of personnel within the production area.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Operates department to maximize productivity and efficiency.
• Directs assembly, quality control, warehouse, and painting personnel relative to meeting company goals.
• Reviews production reports, tracks labor usage, schedules work orders to meet company goals.
• Analyzes and reviews practices to ensure compliance with established Company procedures and policies.
• Maintenance of a safe, clean and orderly department.
• Participates in the selection of new employees and training, development, motivation and evaluation of current employees.
• Ensure customers questions, concerns and complaints are addressed in an expeditious manner.
• Makes customer, dealer and other branch contacts on regular basis.
• Responsible for managing accuracy, timeliness and control of documents to ensure timely customer delivery and invoicing.
• Participate in production decisions.
• Develop, implement and maintain standard operating procedures for production operations and ensure standard operating procedures are abided to and followed.
• Ensure that production is cost effective; determine quality control standards.
• Supervise all production operations such as machining, processing and assembly.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate departmental activities to fulfill sales orders, meet inventory requirements, and deliver manufactured products in a timely fashion.
• Coordinate the production aspects of the product, including production, schedules and milestones.
• Establish and maintain production schedule for each product to meet deadlines.
• Document and improve the production product development process.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Experience in managing staff and department operations.
• Management process; budgeting, safety, policy implementation and personnel.
• Highly developed oral and written communication skills.
• High level of interpersonal skills, to work effectively with others to motivate employees, elicits work output and develops teamwork.
• Ability to organize and effectively.
• Planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to act decisively.
• Problem solving capabilities.

Education & Experience:

• Collage graduate or equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or 5 to 10 years of progress manufacturing experience and responsibility preferred.
• 2 – 5 years’ of supervisory experience.
• Completion of recommended Company training programs
• Knowledge and experience in organizational effectiveness and operations management.
• Experience in supervising, coaching and developing staff.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work involves the regular, and at times sustained, performance of physical tasks such as walking, bending, stooping, and lifting or carrying moderately heavy (20-50 pounds) objects and occasionally very heavy (50-70 pounds or over) objects.

Other Criteria:

• Complies with Company policies and procedures.
• Performs job safely with respect to others, to property and to individual safety.
• Works effectively with others in the company to encourage teamwork and productivity.
• We are drug free workplace that conducts pre-employment physical and drug screenings. We are regulated by the department of transportation and will be conducting random drug testing at regular intervals.

EEO Statement

Northern Lights, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.