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They play a vital role in enabling our innovation, growth and success. We strive to provide them with opportunities to grow in a motivating environment. To view positions currently available at Kinetico, click the button below.\nJob Description:\nPurpose: The Production Manager is responsible for coordinating all required activities to produce quality parts for on-time delivery. All duties occur in coordination and close communication with support areas, such as supply chain, quality, engineering, and maintenance, and others. Follows Kinetico policies and procedures.\nKey Areas of Responsibilities:\nProvides leadership, training, mentoring, coaching, and performance management for the supervisors and the entire production team.\nBuilds and maintains a culture of collaboration by facilitating open dialogue, mutual respect, and strong partnerships across teams and leadership levels\nDelegates production tasks, trains employees on assembly procedures and processes, provides the workforce with appropriate tools and equipment, oversees and approves employee time transactions, evaluates employee performance, and recommends employment actions.\nFocus on employee engagement and support our ability to produce a high-performance, quality-driven, and engaged workforce.\nDevelops and drives connections across all boundaries, working collaboratively to develop solutions for our long-term strategy.\nCoordinates and monitors the work of all production team activities, measures critical KPIs, and implements the required actions to ensure goal compliance.\nMonitors standard work compliances according to the quality management system (QMS) and implements improvements, ensuring quality of products.\nAssists in the development of strategic plans for operational activity. Implements and manages operational plans.\nImproves processes and policies in support of organizational goals. Formulates and implements formal procedures to enhancing the quality system. Monitors adherence to rules, regulations, and procedures.\nAssures that ERP content is accurate and correct by performing daily data entry, promote data entry in real time. Anticipates and maintains inventory levels to meet scheduling needs.\nKey Performance Indicators:\nSafety: recordables, incidents and observations; 5’s Audits\nQuality: Scrap cost, costumer claims, First pass yield\nProductivity: Hours earned; schedule compliance\nDeliveries: OTIF\nCost: Overtime, Supplies, DL\nKey Challenges and Decisions:\nThe role is broad in scope, managing multiple product lines requiring in-depth knowledge of each.\nEnsure the team possesses the knowledge and skills to continuously improve quality and productivity through training, personnel selection, and replacement if necessary under Kinetico policies.\nHandling of quality issues.\nProcess improvements for product lines, such as time studies, line balancing, waste elimination, process reviews and elimination of unnecessary steps, and equipment updates.\nJob Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:\nBachelor’s degree required (or experience in lieu of degree)\n8 or more years of industry-relevant production experience required, including 5 years of management experience.\nExcellent interpersonal and communication skills.\nKnowledge of human resource principles and practices.\nCustomer and quality focused\nOrganizational and critical thinking skills and the ability to solve practical problems.\nExperience using Lean manufacturing tools such as value stream mapping, 5S, takt time, Spaghetti diagram, etc.\nSix sigma desired\nManufacturing, engineering, design experience.\nNew product launch experience\nOrganizational Context:\nThe Production Manager reports to the Director of Manufacturing Engineering. This position serves a key role within the production management team. The role works closely with: Safety, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, and other functional production managers.\nOur Commitment and Difference:\nFounded in 1970, Kinetico was started by two engineers who pioneered the development of non-electric, fully automatic water treatment systems. Evolving from the Tangent Company, a small consulting design firm, Kinetico soon became a global organization of independent dealers, international distributors representing nearly 100 countries. Through the dedication of its founders, employees and distribution network, Kinetico has experienced tremendous success. 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