Production Manager

At GAF, we cover more than just buildings. We cover each other. Under this roof, you will have the tools and resources you need to grow and develop in your career. You will experience our incredible culture and will be empowered to support your teammates, your customers and especially your community. Under this roof, we define the future while leading the present through our deep well of experience and our responsibility to the future to drive improvements and innovation in our products. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most.

Team or Function Overview

This position will be on the Mt. Vernon, Indiana commercial plant operations team, located about 20 miles west of Evansville, along the Ohio River. The GAF TPO Facility in Mount Vernon was founded in 2000 and produces TPO roofing systems in a very clean, state-of-the-art facility. Short for thermoplastic polyolefin, TPO is a single-ply roofing membrane that offers excellent performance at a cost-effective price. In the 20+ years that TPO has been in the field, it’s become one of the most popular products used for low-slope roofing.

Summary

We are looking for a Production Manager who will be responsible for cost effective manufacturing of company products consistent with required quality standards, safe work practices, and maintaining compliance with personnel policies. The Production Manager manages the production lines, applies continuous improvement principles and methods and promotes participation related management techniques.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage daily production operations through the Lead Shift Technician, Shift Technicians, and/or production teams to maximize production efficiency including volume or product produced, run rates, raw material utilization, yield loss, and downtime. While producing high quality products in a safe manner. Ensure that standards and expectations are in place, routinely communicated, clearly understood and consistently met. Use 5S tools to maintain plant housekeeping.
• Provide formal objectives and measurements for plant personnel and is involved in machine troubleshooting, efficiency studies and capital improvements.
• Ensure that production crews are well trained (through SOPs), involved and committed to meeting production, quality, and safety requirements. Assure that equipment and machinery complies with all outside regulatory agency requirements and that employees are adequately protected against safety hazards and that the plant is operated within environmental permit requirements.
• Meet daily production schedule and requirements. Work jointly with logistics and purchasing to ensure appropriate inventory mix is available, while balancing both production efficiency and raw material demands.
• Develop, implement and track compliance to production department expense budgets. Control key cost elements to ensure achievement of budget spending goals. Guide production team to achieve a balance between production needs, machine reliability and overall repair cost.
• Provide leadership and direction to the production department. Responsible for maintaining an environment for good employee relations. Work closely with human resources and plant management to ensure appropriate staffing is maintained. Participate in the hiring process to ensure we staff motivated team members. Ability to effectively communicate the Bonus Plan to all employees to maximize participation and impact on performance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Ability to read and concentrate via computer data entry typing and proofreading
• Must be able to climb ladders and/or stairs and walk on open grating on elevated surfaces
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• Required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Frequent sitting, walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing
• Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery
• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone
• Required to sit, stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Must continuously have the ability to differentiate colors precisely
• Occasionally operate business machines
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds

Under This Roof, We Require

• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical strongly preferred) or other applicable degree with demonstrated experience, coupled with 5+ years of manufacturing experience. 10 years of manufacturing experience may substitute for a degree
• Demonstrated experience in process and quality improvements, implementing strategy for production operations, hiring/training/coaching employees and performance management
• Computer proficiency is required. Google Suite platform knowledge is preferred

Under This Roof, We Also Value

• Experience in Lean manufacturing
• Experience in plastics extrusion
• Experience with Gensuite safety system
• Intermediate communications skills, verbal, written and training skills
• Ability to influence, direct, and guide cross functional teams

How We Protect What Matters Most

• We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood.
• Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions.
• Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence.
• Professional growth and development are very important to us We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program.
• We put diversity and inclusion into action with our Employee Resource Groups, which unite employees based on common perspectives, identities, demographic factors, or out of a desire to be an ally.

GAF complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a 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 Services at 833-HR-XPERT.

We believe our employees are our greatest resource. We offer competitive salary, benefits, 401k, and vacation packages for all full time permanent positions. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and GAF, Standard Logistics, SGI, and Siplast are proud to be affirmative action employers. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If applying for positions in the U.S., must be eligible to work in the U.S. without need for employer sponsored visa (work permit).

Job Description:

Introduction

At GAF, we cover more than just buildings. We cover each other. Under this roof, you will have the tools and resources you need to grow and develop in your career. You will experience our incredible culture and will be empowered to support your teammates, your customers and especially your community. Under this roof, we define the future while leading the present through our deep well of experience and our responsibility to the future to drive improvements and innovation in our products. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most.

Team or Function Overview

This position will be on the Mt. Vernon, Indiana commercial plant operations team, located about 20 miles west of Evansville, along the Ohio River. The GAF TPO Facility in Mount Vernon was founded in 2000 and produces TPO roofing systems in a very clean, state-of-the-art facility. Short for thermoplastic polyolefin, TPO is a single-ply roofing membrane that offers excellent performance at a cost-effective price. In the 20+ years that TPO has been in the field, it’s become one of the most popular products used for low-slope roofing.

Summary

We are looking for a Production Manager who will be responsible for cost effective manufacturing of company products consistent with required quality standards, safe work practices, and maintaining compliance with personnel policies. The Production Manager manages the production lines, applies continuous improvement principles and methods and promotes participation related management techniques.

Essential Duties

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage daily production operations through the Lead Shift Technician, Shift Technicians, and/or production teams to maximize production efficiency including volume or product produced, run rates, raw material utilization, yield loss, and downtime. While producing high quality products in a safe manner. Ensure that standards and expectations are in place, routinely communicated, clearly understood and consistently met. Use 5S tools to maintain plant housekeeping.
• Provide formal objectives and measurements for plant personnel and is involved in machine troubleshooting, efficiency studies and capital improvements.

• Ensure that production crews are well trained (through SOPs), involved and committed to meeting production, quality, and safety requirements. Assure that equipment and machinery complies with all outside regulatory agency requirements and that employees are adequately protected against safety hazards and that the plant is operated within environmental permit requirements.
• Meet daily production schedule and requirements. Work jointly with logistics and purchasing to ensure appropriate inventory mix is available, while balancing both production efficiency and raw material demands.
• Develop, implement and track compliance to production department expense budgets. Control key cost elements to ensure achievement of budget spending goals. Guide production team to achieve a balance between production needs, machine reliability and overall repair cost.
• Provide leadership and direction to the production department. Responsible for maintaining an environment for good employee relations. Work closely with human resources and plant management to ensure appropriate staffing is maintained. Participate in the hiring process to ensure we staff motivated team members. Ability to effectively communicate the Bonus Plan to all employees to maximize participation and impact on performance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Ability to read and concentrate via computer data entry typing and proofreading
• Must be able to climb ladders and/or stairs and walk on open grating on elevated surfaces
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• Required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Frequent sitting, walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing
• Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery
• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone
• Required to sit, stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Must continuously have the ability to differentiate colors precisely
• Occasionally operate business machines
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds

Under This Roof, We Require

• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical strongly preferred) or other applicable degree with demonstrated experience, coupled with 5+ years of manufacturing experience. 10 years of manufacturing experience may substitute for a degree
• Demonstrated experience in process and quality improvements, implementing strategy for production operations, hiring/training/coaching employees and performance management
• Computer proficiency is required. Google Suite platform knowledge is preferred

Under This Roof, We Also Value

• Experience in Lean manufacturing
• Experience in plastics extrusion
• Experience with Gensuite safety system
• Intermediate communications skills, verbal, written and training skills
• Ability to influence, direct, and guide cross functional teams

How We Protect What Matters Most

• We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood.
• Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions.
• Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence.
• Professional growth and development are very important to us We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program.

• We put diversity and inclusion into action with our Employee Resource Groups, which unite employees based on common perspectives, identities, demographic factors, or out of a desire to be an ally.

GAF complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a 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 Services at 833-HR-XPERT.

We believe our employees are our greatest resource. We offer competitive salary, benefits, 401k, and vacation packages for all full time permanent positions. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and GAF, Standard Logistics, SGI, and Siplast are proud to be affirmative action employers. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If applying for positions in the U.S., must be eligible to work in the U.S. without need for employer sponsored visa (work permit).

With 130+ years in the industry, GAF is the leading roofing manufacturer in North America. As a member of the Standard Industries family of companies, we are also part of the largest roofing and waterproofing business in the world.

Our communities help give our work meaning and the products we manufacture help protect what matters most. The shingles help to shelter the families living in the homes in our towns. The TPO helps protect what is under that hospital’s roof. In addition to quality products, we make sure they are installed by quality craftsmen and women. The full GAF portfolio of solutions is supported by an extensive national network of factory-certified contractors.

GAF continues to be the leader in quality and offers comprehensive warranty protection on its products and systems. Our success is driven by a commitment to empowering our people to deliver advanced quality and purposeful innovation and the desire to protect what matters most.

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