Job Information
Aerotek Production Manager in Leawood, Kansas
Job Title: Production Manager
Job Description
The Production Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing production lines, ensuring targets are met, implementing manufacturing strategy, and driving continuous improvement in production efficiency. The PM collaborates closely with stakeholders, aligns their leadership with core principles, and mentors staff for excellence. They also focus on maximizing production levels, meeting KPIs, and maintaining safe manufacturing standards.
Responsibilities
Coordinate and interact with internal cross-functional teams to fulfill customer and company goals.
Attend Management meetings and provide detailed input on the status of production goals.
Manage assigned production line(s), contributing leadership support to all facets of production and ensuring production goals are continually met.
Efficiently maximize and optimize production levels while driving operational excellence.
Inspire, motivate, and mentor staff to achieve excellence, and have the drive and passion to grow self and others.
Align leadership style to core principles, contributing to society, fairness and honesty, cooperation and team spirit, untiring effort for improvement, courtesy and humility, adaptability, and gratitude.
Essential Skills
5+ years’ experience as a Production Manager for a 24/7, high volume automation manufacturing environment.
Ability to work any shift as needed and dictated by business needs.
High volume experience with management of 100+ employees.
Solid previous job history in a similar role with proven ability of being a strong leader of a production team.
Data-driven to interpret and drive business needs.
Foundational and practical knowledge of machine controls and instrumentation.
Excellent communication (spoken and written) skills, including the ability to explain and present technical information.
Excellent understanding of manufacturing operations to include Lean Six Sigma, ERP transactional experience, 5s experience, etc.
Able to influence change.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business or equivalent experience (required).
Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) or Master of Science (MS) (preferred).
Advanced skills in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook).
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $120000.00 - $120000.00
Lots of room for growth, traveling to Reno and Japan. Leading 100+ supervisors.
Being at the front of a start up. One of the largest projects going on in North America.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Leawood,KS.
Application Deadline
This position will be accepting applications until Jan 2, 2025.
About Aerotek:
We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.
Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.