Role:
The Production Manager owns and leads the day-to-day operating through the Daily Directional Setting (DDS) process. They coach Team Leads and Team Members in the use of standard work, operator care checks, and problem-solving tools to stabilize performance, eliminate losses, and improve results. The Production Manager ensures HOPs systems are used effectively and consistently to maintain safe, food-safe, and reliable operations.
Responsibilities: The Production Manager is responsible for -
- Delivering line results by owning and driving performance against PDQCDSM targets. Ensuring scorecards are updated and accurate.
- Leading Daily Directional Setting (DDS) for the depart and ensuring clear priorities, actions, and follow-up (PDCA).
- Owning Honeyville Operating Philosophy (HOPs) execution for the line (DDS, RLS, Operator Care checks, CIL, CL, Defect Handling, Safety, Changeover & Sanitization).
- Coaching standard work to eliminate non-value-added work and improve flow, consistency, and efficiency.
- Building team capability by helping LPLs coach and develop Team Leads and Team Members (training, signoffs/qualification, and skill growth aligned to HPWS).
- Identifying and eliminating losses by using data, floor presence, and structured problem solving (root cause, preventative measures, and reapplication of best practices).
- Supporting Line Plans by partnering with LPL’s to eliminate waste and increase efficiencies. & Maintenance/TSG to restore and maintain equipment at base condition, improve PM effectiveness, and reduce repeat issues.
- Driving food safety and safety standards by ensuring compliance to required procedures, responding to deviations, and reinforcing expectations through coaching and follow-up.
- Ensuring communication and shift-to-shift continuity by maintaining clear visual management and escalating issues appropriately to protect performance and compliance.
- Supporting Staffing By looking forward in the schedule to ensure we have correct staffing compliance. Coordinate vacation, leave of absence and flow to the work with shifting priorities (assisting LPLs). Maximizing capacity utilization and achieving financial goals.
- Improving performance through continuous improvement by surfacing opportunities, prioritizing improvements, and ensuring actions are implemented and sustained.
- Perform assignments and directives provided by the leadership team