0911 – Manufacturing managers
Manufacturing managers plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operations of a manufacturing establishment or of a production department within a manufacturing establishment, under the direction of a general manager or other senior manager. They are employed by manufacturing companies.
Profile
Index of titles
Example titles
- Automobile interior fittings production manager
- Automobile production manager
- Brewmaster
- Business manager – manufacturing
- Cannery manager
- Clothing factory manager
- Container manufacturing manager
- Dairy plant manager
- Director of operations – manufacturing
- Distillery manager
- Enologist
- Factory superintendent
- Field director – manufacturing
- Fish-processing plant manager
- Flour mill manager
- Food and beverage production manager
- Food production manager
- Food-processing plant manager
- Foundry manager
- Furniture factory manager
- Industrial and manufacturing production manager
- Logistics manager – manufacturing
- Lumber mill manager
- Manufacturing company manager
- Manufacturing industry manager
- Manufacturing manager
- Manufacturing operations manager
- Manufacturing plant manager
- Manufacturing plant superintendent
- Metal works fabrication manager
- Mill manager
- Mill superintendent
- Motor vehicle assembly plant manager
- Oenologist
- Operations manager – manufacturing
- Operations manager – public utilities
- Packaging manufacturing plant manager
- Paper mill manager
- Pickling plant manager
- Plant assistant manager
- Plant manager
- Plastic products-manufacturing plant manager
- Printing manager
- Printing plant manager
- Production chief
- Production head
- Production manager – manufacturing
- Production manager – printing
- Production operations manager
- Production planner
- Production planning co-ordinator
- Production planning manager
- Production senior co-ordinator
- Production superintendent
- Pulp and paper mill manager
- Quality-control services manager
- Railway car production manager
- Railway rolling stock production manager
- Refinery superintendent
- Rubber products-manufacturing plant manager
- Steel mill manager
- Textile mill manager
- Textile spinning-mill manager
- Textile spinning-plant manager
- Tire plant manager
- Tool production department manager
- Winery manager
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
- Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operations of a manufacturing establishment or the operations or production department of a manufacturing establishment
- Develop and implement plans to efficiently use materials, labour and equipment to meet production targets
- Plan and manage the establishment of departmental budget
- Develop production schedules and maintain an inventory of raw materials and finished products
- Plan and implement changes to machinery and equipment, production systems and methods of work
- Direct quality control inspection system and develop production reporting procedures
- Develop equipment maintenance schedules and recommend the replacement of machines
- Hire, supervise and train or oversee training of employees in the use of new equipment or production techniques.
Employment requirements
- Completion of a college or university program in engineering or business administration is usually required.
- Five to ten years of supervisory experience in manufacturing are required.
Additional information
- Progression to senior management positions is possible with experience.
Exclusions
- Facility operation and maintenance managers (0714)
- Managers in transportation (0731)
- Senior managers – construction, transportation, production and utilities (0016)
- Utilities managers (0912)