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Production Manager jobs: 280 open roles

Open production manager jobs taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Listings that state pay show a median of $109,000 a year.

The market for production manager work

Every figure names its source. Skills and AI-skill shares describe the whole Operations function this title sits in. Outlook, pay and AI-use figures are for the government category “Industrial production managers”, the closest occupation to this title.

Verified open production manager jobs
280

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$109,000

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Employment outlook
Projected to grow 3% from 2025 to 2035 (about as fast as average).

Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2025–2035.

National median pay, all levels
$126,060

Source: BLS OEWS, 2025.

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Openings a year nationally, growth plus replacement
17,000

Source: BLS Employment Projections.

AI use at work
AI use among industrial production managers is little observed so far.

Source: Anthropic Economic Index.

Operations openings that ask for AI skills
2%

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Operations openings that are remote
4%

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. supply chain14%
  2. 2. procurement14%
  3. 3. logistics12%
  4. 4. project management7%
  5. 5. excel6%
  6. 6. erp2%
  7. 7. audit2%
  8. 8. forecasting2%

AI skills worth building for this work

  1. 1. AI tools in daily work
  2. 2. Gen-AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude)
  3. 3. Prompt design
  4. 4. AI coding assistants
  5. 5. AI workflow automation
  6. 6. Automation platforms (Zapier, n8n, Power Automate)

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Open production manager jobs

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Production Manager salary

The middle half of production manager listings that state pay run from $90,000 to $125,000. See the full production manager salary breakdown.

Operations jobs in the rankings

Rankings about operations jobs

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Where production manager jobs are

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Production Manager jobs by city and state

Employers hiring production managers

  • Carvana 26
  • CRH Public 8
  • Panasonic Energy North America 6
  • ABC Imaging 6
  • GPAC 5
  • SpaceX 5
  • PlainsCapital Bank 5
  • Illinois Tool Works 4
  • Reynolds Consumer Products 4
  • Celestica 3

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