Production Manager
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Cartago • Costa Rica
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About the role
- Lead and manage production operations for established manufacturing lines and new projects, ensuring safety, compliant, and efficient execution to meet customer demand, quality requirements, and cost targets.
- Control manufacturing financial performance, ensuring proper management of labor efficiency, manufacturing variances, absorption, indirect material consumption, and headcount according to approved budget.
- Lead and develop Production Supervisors, ensuring accountability, workforce stability, and high performance aligned with operational objectives.
- Oversee Industrial Engineering activities including capacity planning, line balancing, productivity improvements, and cost optimization initiatives to support demand and margin objectives.
- Ensure training strategy and workforce capability development through onboarding, certification, cross-training, and ramp-up readiness planning.
- Lead ramp-up of new production lines and product transfers, ensuring operational readiness (people, equipment, materials, and processes) and stable performance after launch.
- Serve as the primary production interface with customers and core teams, ensuring compliance with delivery commitments, responsiveness to capacity and flexibility requests, and structured problem-solving for critical line issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with a major in Engineering, finance, business administration.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in manufacturing companies.
- Minimum 3–5 years in leadership roles supervising production teams.
- Experience managing production budgets, manufacturing variances, indirect material spending, and headcount planning.
- Experience leading ramp-ups and product transfers.
- Experience leading cross-functional core teams.
- Proven experience supervising Engineering Level Professionals.
- Leading opportunities for continuous improvement and cost reduction.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, production systems, and medical device regulations.
- Deep understanding of OEE, efficiency, scrap control, manufacturing variances and absorption.
- Strong financial acumen in manufacturing cost structure, labor efficiency, and operational performance analysis.
- Advanced knowledge of capacity planning, line balancing, and productivity improvement methodologies.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement tools.
- Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP or similar).
- Excellent bilingual (English/Spanish) verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and team development capabilities.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
manufacturing processesproduction systemsOEEcapacity planningline balancingproductivity improvementLean ManufacturingContinuous Improvementfinancial performance analysiscost reduction
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingteam developmentcommunicationproblem-solvingaccountabilityworkforce stabilityresponsivenesscross-functional collaborationtraining strategy