Production Manager

  Forest River, Inc., the Nation’s largest manufacturer of Recreational Vehicles, Cargo Trailers, Transit Buses and Boats has an immediate opening. 

Pay Range:

• $100,000 to $115,000

Benefits:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k

Responsibilities

• Managing Production Employees
• Development, management, and oversight of production, policies, and procedures implemented to better document and streamline all company production practices.
• Build and lead a production team while overseeing all aspects of production.
• Creation and maintenance of production schedule for all product lines.
• Lead and direct the work of production staff, including coaching employees, skill development, cross training & communicating strategies and work tasks with a vision.
• Streamlining corporate operations by creating, managing, and directing operational policies and ensuring that such policies adhere to company standards and help to increase operational efficiency.
• Recruiting, hiring, training, counseling, and termination of production staff, as required, to support the quality of operations.
• Manage the facility and facility maintenance.
• Overseeing manufacturing, including reviewing processing schedules and production orders to determine work procedures and assignments.
• Maintain and manage labor efficiencies and cost containment.
• Developing equipment usage schedules and timelines as well as ensuring the production team has all required equipment to complete tasks correctly.
• Monitoring and developing cost targets, lead times, quality assurance and contributing to budget and planning exercises.
• Fostering quality improvements and develop quality metrics, including monitoring and validating equipment and services in use.
• Implement and maintain a production staff on-boarding training program.
• Utilize and implement LEAN manufacturing principles to ensure that our vehicles are built with absolute quality in the fastest time possible.
• Work closely with engineering, design staff and outside vendors to ensure vehicles are being built and designed properly.

 Qualifications

• Must have Management Experience
• Quality minded
• Ability to read Prints
• Good Problem Solving Capabilities
• Strong people skills/Ability to Lead Others
• Good Attendance

Forest River offers a stable work environment that is fast paced. Our employees enjoy a highly competitive Wage and Benefit Package.  We are looking for dedicated individuals with experience in the Industry as well as other Manufacturing Processes.