Production Manager
Location: Burr Ridge, IL
Shift: 1st Shift
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Pay Rate: $60-80k per year
Benefits: Full medical coverage, 401(k) with match, PTO, paid holidays, and strong job stability
Sterling Engineering is hiring a versatile Production Manager for a highly stable, growth?focused manufacturer known for empowering employees, encouraging ownership, and offering meaningful career development. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing many hats, thrives in fast?moving environments, and wants direct visibility into operations, supply chain, customer relations, and organizational decision?making.
You’ll join a company where your ideas matter, your problem?solving skills are valued, and your ability to influence quality, customer satisfaction, and operational success has a direct impact every day.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage production schedules, workflow, and daily operational priorities.
- Utilize fiber laser equipment and CAD/CAM software to design, program, and cut parts.
- Drive accountability and support continuous improvement efforts.
- Assist with overseeing inventory levels, ensuring accuracy, quality, and material readiness.
- Support cost?effective purchasing decisions and timely procurement.
Qualifications:
- Proven background in production management
- Hands-on laser cutting and CAD/CAM programming experience
- Willingness to learn and support inventory management and purchasing
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
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Sterling Engineering, Inc.
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
500 to 999 employees
Staffing/Employment Agencies
http://www.sterling-engineering.com