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Responsible for a variety of duties in a manufacturing facility, production managers are employed by manufacturers in order to assist plant managers with tasks that are necessary to complete daily activities.  Manager jobs require professionals to maintain contact with employees on the production floor as well as members of management, and ensure there is an understanding among all.  Professionals keep detailed records relating to production performance, weekly scheduling, and employee absenteeism.  The job of a production manager requires them to coordinate the production process, supervise a variety of associates, estimate project costs, maintain schedules, ensure quality goods, and monitor the quantity of goods to be shipped.  Production managers may be responsible for numerous tasks, so they need to be highly knowledgeable of industry practices, and possess creativity for creating new and more effective procedures.  Managers assist plant managers in meeting a number of short term goals surrounding the overtime cost and waste reduction, or a rise in quality and safety.  Professionals must maintain numerous activities, so they must be highly organized, decisive, and educated. 

Production managers are often expected to work necessary overtime in order to complete required tasks.  Jobs in production supervising require dedicated and organized professionals who possess well-developed communication skills.  As manufacturing companies endure restructuring or mergers, a number of management positions have been eliminated, leaving production supervisors to assume the responsibility of these tasks.  Managers stay in constant contact with production workers, so they spend a great deal of time on the production floor, and out of their offices.  Periodically, managers are required to stay over and meet with associates working different shifts. 

Recent technological advances have made production management careers simpler than in previous years, but have also managed to decrease the need for as many professionals.  Occupational growth for production manager careers is expected to be slightly less than average occupations, but professionals will still be needed to replace those leaving the manufacturing industry, or the workforce all together. 

Training for production manager jobs varies depending on company size, geographic location, and the type of facility.  Most commonly, employers prefer associates with formal college or apprenticeship education, or professionals with extensive industry experience who exhibit excellent managerial skills.  Candidates with previous work experience are not generally required to endure the same training as professionals who have recently graduated from formal programs with little or no industry background.  As professionals gain further experience in these positions, continuing education may help obtain promotions into positions such as plant manager.

If you would like to know more information on a production manager career, please visit the following sites:

• CIMNET Inc.
• Management Concepts
• Strategos, Inc.
• World Wide Learn
• Lean Enterprise Insitute

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