What do they do?
Plan, direct, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications.
Also known as:
Area Plant Manager, Assembly Manager, General Production Manager, Industrial Production Manager, Manufacturing Coordinator, Manufacturing Manager, Plant Manager, Product Line Manager, Production Control Manager, Production Manager, Quality Control Manager (QC Manager), Quality Manager, Sub Plant Manager
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- Bachelor's degree (33%)
- Some college, no degree (21%)
- High school diploma equivalent (19%)
- Master's degree (12%)
- Associate's degree (9%)
- Less than high school diploma (4%)
- Doctorate or Professional Degree (2%)
Most Popular Majors that prepare Industrial Production Managers
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Degrees Granted
136,380
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Female Students
63,904
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Male Students
72,476
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Median Starting Salary
$39,500
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#2
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Degrees Granted
24,556
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Female Students
11,684
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Male Students
12,872
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Median Starting Salary
$48,168
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Degrees Granted
6,352
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Female Students
2,187
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Male Students
4,165
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Median Starting Salary
$39,500
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Degrees Granted
5,537
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Female Students
1,976
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Male Students
3,561
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Median Starting Salary
$61,467
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Degrees Granted
3,086
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Female Students
1,176
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Male Students
1,910
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Median Starting Salary
$39,500
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People in this career often have these skills:
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Learning Strategies - Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Management of Financial Resources - Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
People in this career often know a lot about:
- Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
- Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Personnel and Human Resources - Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
People in this career often have talent in:
- Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
People in this career often do these activities:
- Evaluate quality of materials or products.
- Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
- Direct sales, marketing, or customer service activities.
- Direct organizational operations, projects, or services.
- Analyze data to inform operational decisions or activities.
- Monitor organizational procedures to ensure proper functioning.
- Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
- Evaluate employee performance.
- Conduct employee training programs.
- Hire personnel.
- Implement organizational process or policy changes.
- Develop organizational methods or procedures.
- Maintain personnel records.
- Prepare operational progress or status reports.
- Develop specifications for new products or processes.
- Approve expenditures.
- Prepare operational budgets.
- Negotiate sales or lease agreements for products or services.
- Maintain knowledge of current developments in area of expertise.
- Direct facility maintenance or repair activities.
- Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
- Manage control system activities in organizations.
This page includes data from:
Career data: O*NET 28.3 Database
by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (“USDOL/ETA”). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA
Occupation statistics: USDOL U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics
Videos: CareerOneStop, USDOL/ETA and the Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development
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