Sr. Production Manager - Operations Control (Electrode)

Do you want to join a team that's changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Sr. Production Manager - Operations Control? Then we're looking for you! Put your skills to meaningful use, gain unique experience, and work with world-class team members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who share the same vision. Join the PECNA team today!

Job Summary: Leads and delivers Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People (SQCDP) performance for Senior Production Manager Operations Control across PECNA Operations. Expected to serve as a leader who sets clear expectations, holds people accountable, removes barriers, and inspects what you expect with courtesy and respect. Ensures end-to-end supply chain value-stream accountability by collaborating upstream and downstream to maintain proper inventory control levels and healthy WIP. Personal Safety is imperative and the mandate of Quality is the foundation of everything we doneither will be compromised under any circumstances.

Essential Duties:

• Functional Leadership & Operations: Establishes and sustains a single Operations Control cadence integrating Hourly Boards, Command Center/Obeya, production control boards, and escalation routines. Ensures plan vs. actual performance is visible, owned, and acted on; drives structured recovery when gaps persist. Creates shift-to-shift visibility and disciplined handoffs so issues are not carried forward as "unknowns."
• Strategic Alignment & Continuous Improvement: Implements standard work and reporting discipline across ERP/MES/traceability and other operational systems. Strengthens PDCA by ensuring recurring gaps have verified countermeasures and sustainment checks.
• Team Development & Knowledge Sharing: Develops managers and teams to operate with strong accountability, data discipline, and urgency in escalation. Builds cross-functional routines that reinforce ownership and closure with evidence.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Partners with Supply Chain to translate production plans into executable schedules and to manage constraints/risks. Coordinates PMO project execution support to remove operational constraints and ensure SOP readiness and handover discipline. Ensures supply chain value-stream alignment upstream/downstream to maintain inventory thresholds and WIP health.
• Quality, Safety, Compliance, & Risk Management: Ensures all cadence and decision-making maintains the non-negotiable standards for Personal Safety and Quality. Ensures audit-ready transaction discipline for material movement, holds, and reconciliations.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly leads Production Manager Inventory Control and Production Manager Planning & PMO. Owns the Operations Control cadence and governance connecting planning, inventory, and execution across departments.

Travel Requirement: Minimal travel as required for business needs.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements: To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees, wearing PPE is a possibility and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator.

Qualifications:

Requirements - Required and/or Preferred Education, Certifications, and Licenses:

• Required: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related field.
• Preferred: Master's in Business Administration (MBA) or Master of Science (MS) Lean/CI certification and/or project management certification preferred.

Essential Qualifications: 7+ years progressive experience in manufacturing operations control, production control, materials/inventory control, or supply chain execution. Proven ability to run daily management systems (plan vs. actual, escalation routines, issue/action tracking) and drive closure with accountability. Experience with inventory governance and transactional discipline in ERP/MES environments.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience in high-speed/high-volume and/or regulated/traceable manufacturing environments.

Physical Demands:

• Physical Activities: Percentage of time (equaling 100%) during the normal workday the employee is required to:
• Sit: 10%
• Walk: 50%
• Stand: 40%
• Required Lifting and Carrying: Up to 10 lbs.: Continuous Up to 20 lbs.: Frequent Up to 35 lbs.: Frequent Team-lift only (over 35 lbs.): Occasional

Benefits & Perks - What's In It For You:

• Health Benefits Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Voluntary Benefits Life, accident, critical illness, disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
• Panasonic Retirement Savings & Investment Plan (PRSIP) 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Paid Time-Off Benefits Vacation, holidays, personal days, sick leave, volunteer, and parental & caregiver leave.
• Educational Assistance Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses after six months of service.
• Health Management and Wellbeing Programs Lifestyle Spending Account, EAP, virtual health management, chronic condition, neurodiversity, tobacco cessation, substance abuse support, and life stage and fertility resources.

Join us at Panasonic Energy, where your onsite presence is valued, and we strive to make each moment count in your professional journey.