Manager Production - Chatsworth - Day Shift

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At Mohawk Industries, we’re committed to more – more customer solutions, more process improvements, more sustainable manufacturing and more opportunities for our team.

As a Fortune 500, global flooring leader with some of the best-known brands in the industry, Mohawk is a great place to start or develop your career with an emphasis on more of what’s important to you. Whether you want to lead more, innovate more, learn more or create more, you can find your more with Mohawk.

What we need: 

The Production Manager oversees a team of employees focused on manufacturing operations and aimed at optimizing processes and ensuring operational efficiency. This role provides guidance, support, and direction to team members while fostering a positive and productive work environment.

What you'll do: 

• Supervise a team of employees, ensuring they work efficiently and effectively toward common objectives.
• Collect and analyze data related to key performance indicators (KPIs), process metrics, and other relevant data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Oversee technical manufacturing processes to ensure they meet quality standards, efficiency targets, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical guidance to resolve complex issues and challenges.
• Maintain accurate records of improvement initiatives, performance metrics, and outcomes.
• Maintain shift reports and records.
• Verify employee hours worked in time keeping system (Kronos) daily.
• Provide consistent and constructive feedback to employees; train, develop, or identify employee training and resource needs.
• Establish priorities, and monitor the quality and quantity of work performed by the department and the individuals within the department. This includes ensuring quality requirements and procedures for the department and plant are communicated, understood, and practiced.   
• Maintain control of resources to ensure ongoing operation of the department within the established budget, productivity, and efficiency standards. 
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other departments to proactively address issues that may potentially impact the quality of the production process or product. 
• Work with safety committee by attending safety meetings, working on safety projects, completing safety surveys, performing safety training, and ensuring a safe work environment and appropriate employee behavior.
• Monitor work quality and adherence to standards, ensuring products or services meet or exceed established criteria.
• Address and resolve operational issues, conflicts, and challenges that may arise within the team.
• Perform other duties as needed.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.
• 4-6 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• 0-2 years of management experience.

What you're good at:

• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field.
• Focused on and responsible for their team's productivity and collective impact.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Able to multitask, prioritize, delegate, and manage time effectively.
• High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data.
• Proficient using Microsoft Office Suite products.
• Flexible attitude, adaptable to change, team player, and able to handle multiple projects at once.
• High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures.

What else? 

• This position is on Day Shift
• This employee will be responsible for direct reports.
• Occasional exposure to hazardous conditions caused by noise, moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, and other conditions associated with a high-traffic production floor.
• Must be able to walk long distances and stand for long periods of time.
• Bending, crouching, and stooping may be required.
• Must be able to work in non-climate-controlled facilities.
• The work environment may be a noisy, high traffic manufacturing production floor.
• May be required to work a flexible schedule to include evening and night shifts, weekends, and holidays.
• The ability to wear personal protective gear correctly most of the day.
• The ability to lift 50 pounds regularly.

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Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk’s vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world’s largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don’t Work participant.