Senior Director of Production
manufacturing › Production · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive leader accountable for all production operations, plant performance, and manufacturing strategy across multiple facilities or a major production division.
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What this role is
Senior executive leader accountable for all production operations, plant performance, and manufacturing strategy across multiple facilities or a major production division. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Leads production across multiple plants, departments, or functions — coordinating production, planning, quality control, and logistics — through senior managers
- Defines the long-term production strategy and operating model with effect on the company's competitive cost and delivery position
- Addresses abstract, cross-functional problems (network capacity, make-vs-buy, footprint) that span organizations and multi-year horizons
- Negotiates with executives and key customers on critical supply, capacity, and strategic-program matters, influencing company production policy
- Directs large-scale operational efficiency programs and organizational design across the production organization
- Knowledge applied
- Defines long-term production strategy and operating model across plants and functions.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses abstract, cross-functional problems spanning organizations and multi-year horizons.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives and key customers on critical supply and strategic matters; influences policy.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years of deep leadership across production departments or divisions.
Skills at this level
- Production Operations Management
- — Oversees the full manufacturing lifecycle of a production area or plant, ensuring output is efficient, cost-effective, on time, within budget, and to required quality standards.
- Machine Operation Oversight
- — Directs and troubleshoots production machinery — CNC machines, injection molders, packaging lines, and fabrication tools — and ensures pre-run equipment checks and staged materials before line start.
- Production Budget Management
- — Manages and tracks production budgets and expenditures for a department or plant — the dividing line that distinguishes a Production Manager from a supervisor.
- Lean and Six Sigma Improvement
- — Leads structured continuous-improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing to eliminate bottlenecks, cut scrap, and raise throughput on the floor.
- Shift and Line Supervision
- — Supervises operators and technicians across shifts, sequencing crew and machines against order priority and enforcing safety and housekeeping standards.
- Shift Handoff Communication
- — Communicates equipment status, open issues, and output progress across shift handoffs and with maintenance, quality, and process engineering teams.
- Production Planning Coordination
- — Coordinates with planning, quality control, and logistics to sequence orders, allocate capacity, and align production output to demand.
- Quality and SOP Enforcement
- — Verifies work against SOPs and quality standards through in-line inspection and process documentation to hold output to specification.
- Workforce Development and Performance Management
- — Trains production staff, manages performance, fosters a safe and motivated work environment, and builds team production expertise.
- Strategic Production Planning
- — Shapes the broader strategic direction and operational efficiency of a plant or division, including capacity, capital, and multi-plant footprint decisions.
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