About this role
Join Franklin Electric on our mission to empower communities with sustainable water management solutions, where your expertise will play a vital role in shaping a better future for generations to come. As the Production Manager, you will oversee, plan and organize manufacturing operations to ensure products are produced efficiently, on time, within budget and meet quality and safety standards. This role drives continuous improvement, establishes manufacturing processes, ensures effective use of resources, and supports long-term operational excellence. The Production Manager collaborates with cross-functional teams and provides leadership to supervisors and production staff. Leading daily production operations to achieve safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets. Plans and monitors capacity, resource allocation, and production schedules to maximize efficiency. Supports continuous improvement initiatives, including lean manufacturing, 5S and Six Sigma practices. Drives operational performance against budgets, forecasts, and key performance indicators. Contributes to organizational planning and long-term operational strategy as part of the management team. Implements and enforces safety standards to comply with legal and company requirements. Ensures manufacturing processes support company quality standards and continuous improvement efforts. Monitors product quality issues and initiates corrective actions to maintain consistent output. Maintains performance standards for production lines and employees. Collaborates with and helps direct production planning, material flow, and resource utilization to optimize processes and resources. Reviews and presents operational reports such as productivity, safety, financial, and production planning updates. Enhances coordination and collaboration between production, support services, scheduling, purchasing and other departments. Prepares and presents operational status reports to management team to communicate production and budgetary projections and status updates. Applies business acumen, budgeting and cost control activities and measures Supervisory Responsibilities Supervises supervisors and/or non-supervisory employees. Responsible for hiring, training, performance evaluations, and addressing employee relations issues. Who We Want: Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders. Collaborative partners . People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.