Plan, direct, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications.

Other names for Industrial Production Managers: Area Plant Manager, Area Production Manager, Branch Manager, Brewing Director, Bulk Plant Manager, Car Construction Superintendent, Concrete Mixing Plant Superintendent, Correctional Facility Industries Superintendent, Demand Planner, Dental Laboratory Manager, Factory Manager, Factory Superintendent, Flowpath Manager, Food Processing Plant Manager, General Manager, General Milling Superintendent, General Production Manager, General Supervisor, Industrial Production Manager, Maintenance Planner, Manager, Manufacturer, Manufacturing Coordinator, Manufacturing Director, Manufacturing Manager, Manufacturing Planner, Materials Coordinator, Materials Planner, Operations Manager, Plant Chief, Plant General Manager, Plant Manager, Plant Operator, Plant Superintendent, Production Control Manager, Production Control Supervisor, Production Coordinator, Production Foreman, Production Manager, Production Superintendent, Production Superviser, Production Supervisor, Quality Assurance Manager (QA Manager), Quality Control Manager, Quality Controller, Sawmill Manager, Sub Plant Manager, Subplant Manager, Superintendent, Supervisor, Supervisor, Production, Managing, Wine Maker,

• Direct and coordinate production, processing, distribution, and marketing activities of industrial organization.
• Develop budgets and approve expenditures for supplies, materials, and human resources, ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.
• Review processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
• Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.
• Hire, train, evaluate, and discharge staff, and resolve personnel grievances.
• Initiate and coordinate inventory and cost control programs.
• Prepare and maintain production reports and personnel records.
• Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality.
• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems.
• Review plans and confer with research and support staff to develop new products and processes.
• Institute employee suggestion or involvement programs.
• Coordinate and recommend procedures for facility and equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines.
• Maintain current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies.
• Negotiate materials prices with suppliers.

• Desktop computers
• Notebook computers
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Scanners
• Tablet computers

Human resources software

Project management software

Inventory management software

Office suite software

Accounting software

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

Financial analysis software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Calendar and scheduling software

Spreadsheet software

Document management software

Data base user interface and query software

Facilities management software

Industrial control software

Electronic mail software