Production Manager

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and high-performance organization. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Production Manager to join our team located at our facility in Appleton, WI.

Your Role:

The Production Manager is responsible for leading daily manufacturing operations to ensure safety, quality, service, and cost targets are met. This role provides leadership to department managers, supervisors, and hourly teams while driving continuous improvement across people, processes, and equipment. The Production Manager partners closely with Plant Leadership, Quality, Maintenance, CI, HR, and Supply Chain to execute production plans and improve overall plant performance.

 

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

 

Safety & Compliance

• Lead a strong safety culture through visible floor presence, GEMBA walks, and employee engagement.
• Ensure compliance with all EHS, food safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Own corrective actions for incidents, near misses, and audit findings.
• Reinforce standard work, safe behaviors, and accountability at all levels.

 

Production & Operations

• Deliver daily, weekly, and monthly production targets across assigned departments and shifts.
• Balance labor, materials, and equipment to meet customer demand and service requirements.
• Monitor performance metrics including output, scrap, downtime, and efficiency.
• Escalate risks to plan early and drive recovery actions when targets are at risk.

 

Quality

• Ensure products meet all quality, specification, and customer requirements.
• Enforce proper use of deviation processes, quality holds, and helpchain escalation.
• Partner with Quality to investigate issues, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrence.
• Support audits, PPAPs, trials, and new product introductions.

 

People Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach, and develop department managers, supervisors, and salaried staff.
• Set clear expectations and hold leaders accountable for results and behaviors.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, and employee relations.
• Build a culture of ownership, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Continuous Improvement

• Champion Lean, Kaizen, and problem solving activities.
• Identify and eliminate waste, variation, and constraints within production processes.
• Support trials, equipment upgrades, and process changes.
• Drive standardization and sustain improvements over time.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Maintenance, Engineering, CI, Quality, HR, and Supply Chain to resolve issues.
  
• Communicate priorities, risks, and results clearly to plant leadership.
  
• Support plant wide initiatives and strategic goals.
  

You will love it here if…

• You put safety first, always
• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

We need you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7–10+ years of manufacturing leadership experience, preferably in a high volume environment.
• Proven experience leading leaders (supervisors/managers).
• Strong knowledge of safety, quality systems, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to make data driven decisions and lead through change.

 

If you answer yes to the following…we want to meet you!

• Intellectual Curiosity: Do you have an inquisitive nature?
• Problem Solving: Do you have a knack for tackling issues head-on? 
• Entrepreneurship: Do you enjoy taking ownership of your work?
• Customer Centricity: Do you always act in the best interests of the customer, putting their needs first? 
• Growth Mindset: Do you focus on progress rather than perfection?
• Continuous Improvement: Are you never satisfied with the status quo? 

 

Want to know more? Check out our website or connect with us on LinkedIn!

Apply today to join a fast-growing innovative company!

            Not a good fit but know someone who is? Please refer them!

  Local candidates only, no relocation assistance available

 

Join Reynolds Consumer Products and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!

For applicants or employees who are disabled or require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, you may request assistance by emailing us at Recruitment@ReynoldsBrands.com.

No recruiter calls or emails please.

 

RCP affords equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, disability status, sex, marital status, protected veteran status, pregnancy, national origin, genetics, genetic information, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. RCP conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

USD $98,400.00 - USD $139,000.00 /A

Role is eligible for 10% annual incentive provided the business meets financial goals and the individual meets their performance goals, subject to plan administration guidelines.