Production Manager

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Your Opportunity: Taylor Corporation is looking for a ProductionManager at our Arden Hills facility tomanage production, quality, and safety ensuring that required metrics are met.This position is responsible forleading the production team, auditing quality and productivity,and utilizing leadership skillsto promote communication and innovation.

Your Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and operational direction to a team of hourly lettershop employees.
• Oversees insertion of projects according to established production schedule.
• Ensure that all lettershop activities are in conformance with job ticket and machine specifications.
• Adjusts staffing at inserting equipment to accommodate different projects, ensures that proper product is being produced according to job ticket as well as consistently monitors process to ensure that quality and throughput standards are met.
• Verifies labor hours and payroll report accuracy.
• Oversees training/cross training of assigned staff, appraises performance and initiates discipline process.
• Balances quality, productivity, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas. Works to continuously improve in all areas.
• Ensures effective employee relations. Provides employee coaching and development. Assures that all employees follow company policies, procedures and established work instructions.
• Accountable for ensuring that all health and safety policies and regulations are enforced, by reporting policy infractions to HR and/or Safety Manager as well as being involved with taking appropriate disciplinary actions. Performs preliminary accident investigations.
• Conducts inspections, constantly monitors all work areas for cleanliness.

You must have:

• 3 to 5 years' prior supervisory experience
• Experience working with a diverse group of people. Bilingual in Hmong and English a plus.
• Ability to maintain high expectations for self and others, demonstrating a dedication to achievement of results.
• Demonstrated ability to function successfully in a fast paced, changing work environment.
• Solid problem solving, project management, multi-tasking and prioritization skills.
• Detail oriented, organized, reliable and resourceful.

Requirements within this position:

• Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information and ideas so others will understand.
• Regularly required to remain in a stationary position.
• Constantly operates machinery and handles products including print materials.
• Frequently required to move inside the facility.
• Regularly move up to 25+ pounds (lift, push, pull and/or carry).

We Would Also Prefer:

• 1+ years experience in the Printing Industry

• Continuous Improvement/ean Manufacturing experience

• Experience with environmental and safety regulationsincluding OSHA, EPA, and HAZMAT

About Taylor Corporation

One of the top five graphics communications companies in North America, Taylor's family of companies provide a diverse set of products, services, and technologies addressing the toughest communication challenges. For 45 years, Taylor has been a premier provider of powerful and innovative products, services, and expertise for individuals, businesses, and distributors large and small. Our 10,000+ employees spanning more than 25 states and nine countries work diligently to create the interactive, printing, and marketing solutions that have helped build some of the world's more recognizable brands. Everything we do begins with identifying the unique priorities and needs of our customers and creating one-of-a-kind solutions. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including several health plans to choose from, dental, vision, wellness programs, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off (PTO) and 64 hours of annual holiday pay.

The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Taylor Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status

Taylor Corporation including all partners and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.