Production Manager-ACE

Production Manager

Lead from the Floor. Develop Great Teams. Build for Growth.

Position Summary

Ace Sanitary is seeking a hands-on Production Manager to lead daily operations across Fabrication Laser Engraving Warehouse and Cleanroom Assembly. Through the supervisors leading these departments this role is accountable for safety quality scheduling labor performance and throughput in a growing highHelen mix operation.

A key priority will be building the leadership staffing training and operating systems needed to grow from approximately 30 to 60 employees across two shifts while delivering on our promise of Coupling Expertise with Speed & Simplicity.

What Success Looks Like

• Supervisors have clear expectations consistent coaching and accountability.
• Customer commitments and daily on-time delivery goals are achieved.
• Safety quality delivery cost and people metrics drive action.
• Standard work cross-training and succession plans support growth.
• Continuous improvement increases throughput labor efficiency and first-pass quality while reducing lead times.
• Cross-functional teams work together to achieve strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership and Team Development

• Lead coach and hold Production Supervisors accountable for team performance and daily priorities.
• Build staffing shift-leadership training and succession plans to support growth across two shifts.
• Partner with Human Resources and supervisors on hiring onboarding performance management development and retention.
• Promote cross-training skill development and advancement opportunities.
• Maintain a visible hands-on presence on the production floor.

Production and Continuous Improvement

• Lead daily workflow across Fabrication Laser Engraving Warehouse and Cleanroom Assembly.
• Turn customer demand into achievable schedules labor plans and shift priorities.
• Optimize labor equipment material flow throughput capacity and overtime.
• Remove bottlenecks affecting productivity lead time and on-time delivery.
• Establish production meetings visual management standard work and clear escalation processes.
• Use operating data to communicate performance risks trends and recovery plans.
• Partner with Continuous Improvement to apply 6S Kaizen Lean manufacturing and structured problem-solving.
• Lead improvements that reduce waste and cost while improving quality capacity and customer service.

Safety Quality and Collaboration

• Champion safety and ensure compliance with training safe-work and incident-response requirements.
• Ensure production follows work instructions quality standards material-traceability requirements and cleanroom and sanitary manufacturing procedures.
• Partner with the Quality & Compliance Manager on audits deviations root-cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Promote right-first-time quality early issue escalation and defect prevention.
• Collaborate with Quality Continuous Improvement Supply Chain Sales Engineering and other departments.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience preferably in assembly fabrication or a regulated environment.
• Experience leading supervisors and multifunctional production teams.
• Proven success managing safety quality delivery cost and employee performance.
• Experience with production scheduling labor-capacity planning workflow management and bottleneck resolution.
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement methods.
• Experience using ERP/MRP or similar production-planning systems.
• Strong leadership coaching problem-solving decision-making and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Operations Management Engineering Business or a related fieldor equivalent experience.
• Experience in cleanroom life sciences pharmaceutical food and beverage medical or regulated manufacturing.
• Experience scaling an operation adding shifts or implementing leader-standard work and daily management systems.
• Knowledge of material traceability corrective actions and sanitary or high-purity manufacturing.

Work Environment

• On-site role with regular time in manufacturing warehouse cleanroom and office environments.
• Ability to stand walk sit bend and safely navigate production areas.
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
• Must follow all PPE hygiene cleanroom and safety requirements.
• Ability to become forklift certified if needed.
• Regular attendance and flexibility to support multiple shifts are required.
• Occasional air or car travel; a valid drivers license is required.

Why Ace Sanitary

Ace Sanitary manufactures sanitary and high-purity liquid-transfer solutions for industries where precision cleanliness reliability and speed matter. If youre a floor-focused leader who develops people builds scalable systems and turns data into action wed like to hear from you.

Attendance Requirements: Attendance on a regular consistent basis is mandatory.

Accommodations: If you need a reasonable accommodation under the ADA or other state or federal law to perform the essential job functions as listed above you may request an accommodation in the interview process.

Required Experience:

Manager