Production Manager

Application Instructions: If this role resonates with you, complete this 10-minute survey (https://go.cultureindex.com/p/aX64DKCLXpcoRmVqnzyq) and email your resume along with a brief explanation of why you’re a strong fit for the role to jobs@americanoutdoorproducts.com. Use “Production Manager” as the subject line. Only candidates who follow the steps above will be considered. Role Summary: The Production Manager leads the people, processes, and daily execution of our manufacturing operation. Reporting to the VP of Operations, this role owns production performance from schedule execution through finished output, including team leadership, labor efficiency, throughput, safety, quality execution, and continuous improvement. This is not a desk-only management role. You’ll be highly present on the production floor, use data to identify problems, hold yourself and others accountable for results, and build repeatable processes. You’ll know when to move quickly, when to stop and solve the root cause, and how to balance daily execution with building a stronger operation for the future. You’ll work closely with Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and Warehouse/Fulfillment teams to ensure production commitments are met safely, efficiently, and consistently as we work toward expanding our manufacturing capabilities. Responsibilities: Own the daily and weekly production schedule, translating demand requirements into executable production plans that balance customer priorities, staffing, material availability, equipment capacity, sanitation, allergen controls, and food safety requirements. Lead, coach, and develop Production Leads and employees, establishing clear expectations, strong floor leadership, effective communication, and accountability for attendance, safety, quality, and performance. Own production KPIs, including schedule attainment, throughput, labor efficiency, downtime, scrap, yield, rework, changeover performance, overtime, and safety; review results regularly and ensure corrective actions are completed. Manage production labor and controllable costs, including staffing levels, overtime, temporary labor, production supplies, waste, and departmental spending. Ensure production runs are executed to plan, including line assignments, material staging, setups, changeovers, output performance, and recovery plans when production falls behind. Analyze capacity, labor requirements, equipment utilization, and operational constraints to recommend changes to staffing, shifts, equipment, facility layout, or capital investment. Establish and maintain production standards for labor, throughput, yields, changeovers, and line performance, using actual results against standards to improve execution and planning accuracy. Maintain a safe production environment by enforcing safety procedures, identifying and correcting hazards, investigating incidents and near misses, and ensuring corrective actions are sustained. Own production documentation and recordkeeping, including SOPs, standard work, batch records, logbooks, labor reporting, material consumption, yields, work-in-process, production completions, and lot information, ensuring records are accurate, timely, traceable, and audit-ready. Own production-floor readiness for SQF certification, including training, documentation, employee adherence, audit preparation, and closure of production-related findings. Maintain production areas in a clean, organized, safe, and audit-ready condition, with required materials, tools, and supplies available and properly controlled. Partner with Maintenance to prioritize preventive maintenance, coordinate planned downtime, respond to equipment failures, and eliminate recurring equipment-related losses. Partner with Quality while maintaining clear production accountability for procedural adherence, employee compliance, deviation containment, corrective actions, documentation, and prevention of recurring quality or food safe…

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