Manufacturing Process Manager

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

Manufacturing Process Manager – Blue Ash, OH

The Process Manager is responsible for maintaining efficient and consistent manufacturing operations across all value stream production areas, shifts and buildings. In this role you will lead a team of supervisors to ensure safety, schedules, quality and efficiency are maintained while resolving any roadblocks that may impede the team’s manufacturing goals. Provide strong leadership, promoting a culture of learning, accountability and continuous improvement while driving operational excellence and continuous improvement to ensure we are meeting our high standards of excellence.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the Value Stream across all shifts, manage production processes, identify bottlenecks, and propose solutions to optimize productivity, process improvement and minimize downtime. Resolve daily production problems with both short and long-term solutions.
• Facilitate effective communication channels within the plant, ensuring information flow between different departments and shifts.
• Lead the development and implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) to maintain consistent quality and safety standards.
• Represent a balanced, customer centric, quality focused, service-to-others mindset
• Provide accountability and ownership for Supervisors and production team members
• Analyze production data to guide headcount needs, estimate work requirements: develop staffing levels; adjust personnel to meet production requirements. Manage staffing needs required for production, includes forecasting and communicating needs
• Coordinate with multiple shift supervisors and managers to ensure seamless flow of projects on all shifts
• Collaborate with the leadership team to provide operational status and challenges
• Maintain appropriate production records: work with buyers and planners, schedulers and others to ensure availability and flow.
• Analyze data and identify production and process improvement opportunities and resolve work flow problems quickly and efficiently
• Manage and Lead Production Supervisors in motivating a diverse team of production team members, including training, performance evaluations, and development plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as engineering, quality assurance, project managers, and maintenance, to identify opportunities for enhancing product quality, reducing costs, and improving overall plant efficiency with goal of improving productivity and margin
• Overseeing capacity planning within the Value Stream for the control of planned outputs
• Creating best practices within all areas of functional responsibility
• Contribute to regular plant meetings, providing updates on production status, performance targets, and improvement initiatives.
• Ensure reports are prepared on KPIs, production metrics, and operational efficiency for MDI.
• Developing a qualified, well-trained and motivated staff
• Other duties as assigned

What You Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, Operations Management or Engineering preferred
• 5+ years of demonstrated people leadership experience in a manufacturing setting
• Demonstrated Organizational and Time Management skills
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage operations within the manufacturing industry
• Demonstrated ability to develop high-performance teams to drive positive business results
• Proficient with MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• Proficient with ERP/MRP systems
• Previous experience with P&L responsibility is a plus

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if: 

• You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others.  With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”.
• You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development.  As we grow, we want you to grow with us. 
• You want a culture that promotes work-life balance.  Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work! 
• You want to work for an award-winning company that invests in its people. Allegion is proud to be a recipient of the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for the second year in a row, recognizing our commitment to employee engagement, strengths-based development, and unlocking human potential.

What You’ll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”. 
• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, offering a 6% company match and no vesting period 
• Tuition Reimbursement  
• Unlimited PTO
• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work 
• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can “serve others, not yourself”
• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths testing and coaching 

Apply Today!

Join our team of experts today and help us make tomorrow’s world a safer place!

Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role.

We Celebrate Who We Are! 

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do.   We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

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