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Production Manager

Vaco
$80,000.00 - $110,000.00 / yr
United States, Michigan, Lake Orion
Mar 05, 2025
Production Manager The Production Manager is responsible for managing day-to-day manufacturing activities, ensuring the highest levels of efficiency, quality, and safety across a 24/7 shift operation. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Conduct regular crew performance reviews, remove obstacles, and provide training and development opportunities.
  • Monitor production on the shop floor and investigate excessive downtime in regards to scheduling, changeovers, furnance maintenance, and staffing issues. Recommend changes to to support continuous improvement.
  • Assist in identifying equipment in need of repair and communicates with maintenance on required repairs.
  • Monitor production schedules and adjust as needed to address changes in demand or unforeseen circumstances. Looks for trends in to improve SOPs, training, etc.
  • Maintain thorough knowledge of all processes and equipment in the department.
  • Ensure that established policies, rules and regulations, and procedures are followed and standardized across all shifts.
  • Routinely attend shop floor management meetings and audit the quality of parts, ensuring concerns raised are fully investigated.
  • Execute a strong staffing plan across all shifts to meet customer demand.
  • Prepare and manage the departmental budget, including forecasting and controlling costs.

Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, quality control, and safety regulations.
  • Support root cause analysis as needed.
  • Ability to drive process improvements and manage change effectively.

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .

Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

Privacy Notice

Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco") respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.

  • California residents may access Vaco's HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
  • Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
  • Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
  • Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
  • Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

  • the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
  • licensure and certification requirements;
  • office location and other geographic considerations;
  • other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

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