Production Manager

Overview

Dexter, the premier supplier and manufacturer of axles, doors, venting products an related components in the utility trailer, boat trailer, recreational vehicle, heavy duty and manufactured housing markets, has an opportunity for a Production Manager at Dexter Marine Products, LLC in Winchester, TN.

Dexter has been a leading manufacturer of trailer axles, brakes and actuation, along with entrance door and venting products for over 50 years serving the utility trailer, recreational vehicle, heavy duty, manufactured housing, agricultural, marine, and specialty markets. Dexter is headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana employing over 2,800 people and operating 18 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Canada (Indiana, Georgia, Oklahoma, California, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Utah, Ontario, and Alberta). Dexter has achieved its many years of success through a commitment to the principles of superior quality, continuous improvement, and unparalleled customer service. Dexter is a wholly owned subsidiary of DexKo Global, Inc.

For more information about our company, access Dexter's web site at www.dexteraxle.com.

Dexter offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. Dexter's benefits package includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life, STD, LTD, FSA, HSA, and 401 (k) Plan with company contributions.

Position Summary

The Production Manager is a key leadership position within the organization. This role will have primary focus on driving all production throughout the facility. Through hands on mentoring and coaching this role will help guide the shop floor to ensure we meet our safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets through a continuous improvement approach.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Help drive a safety focused culture through employee engagement

• Own and drive a positive culture of communication, trust, and performance through lean methodologies

• Schedule daily/weekly production requirements

• Ensure daily productivity goals are met

• Ensure monthly labor and supply budgets are met

• Work with customer service, quality, engineering, materials, and shipping to ensure all requirements of internal and external customers are met

• Supervises, mentors, and directs production supervisors

• Supports the systems to report Key Process Indicators (KPI’s), conducting the standard meetings and driving the identification of abnormalities, discovering root cause and problem solving to prevent recurrence

• Ensures quality procedures are followed and achieve 100% on time delivery

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has direct reports: Production Supervisors and Maintenance

Requirements

Education and/or Experience: