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Job overview
The Production Manager provides leadership and direction to assigned departments, product lines, or profit centers and teams. The role oversees production goals, workplace safety, and customer specifications, typically supervising more than 200 salaried and hourly employees. It schedules and monitors production and costs, maintains workforce effectiveness, reports production outcomes, and leads safety and continuous improvement efforts.
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Company Overview
Why Choose Us?
Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.
Our Sustainability Commitment
The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.
Job Description
Summary:
Responsible for providing leadership and direction to assigned department(s), product line(s) or profit center(s) and teams in order to meet production goals, ensure a safe work environment, and meet customer specifications.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
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Typically supervises 200+ employees including both salaried and hourly.
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Schedule, track, & monitor production and costs to ensure unit meets established goals while maintaining a safe work environment and quality standards.
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Maintain effective workforce through hiring, training, coaching and disciplinary actions.
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Implement and demonstrate best practices and consistent policies.
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Complete and maintain timely and accurate reports on critical production outcomes such as efficiency, downtime, cost, etc.
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Provide feedback up and down the organization.
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Develop and implement safety awareness programs, communicate safety issues, correct safety related problems, and lead investigations into safety related issues.
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Participate in designing and implementing continuous improvement processes.
Requirements:
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BA/BS degree preferred in Industrial Management, Engineering or Business.
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5+ years of manufacturing experience including 2 years of supervisory experience.
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Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of statistical methods and process improvement techniques.
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Must demonstrate proficient computer skills with Microsoft Office Suite.
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Effective team building and demonstrated leadership skills.
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Effective communication skills (written and verbal) with all levels in the organization.
Preferred Skills:
- Union experience a plus
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Company Benefits
What You'll Get From Us
Benefits
With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.
Community Engagement
At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.
Training and Development
We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact [email protected] .
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Job Locations US-PA-Downingtown
ID 2026-36654
Category Operations
Position Type Full Time
Pay Type Salaried
How this job compares
Set against the 686 open Production Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$95–132K/yr340 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 33 open Production Manager jobs in Pennsylvania and 686 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Production Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (519 postings).
- Education
- 178 of the 686 open Production Manager jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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