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Assistant Production Manager jobs with green card sponsorship require employers to complete PERM labor certification with the Department of Labor, confirming no qualified U.S. workers are available, before filing an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. EB-2 or EB-3 classification depends on your degree and experience, and priority-date backlogs vary by country of birth.
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The Area Leader provides leadership and operational support across a 24/7 food manufacturing operation, leading hourly Technicians, Team Leaders, and Supervisors as assigned. This role ensures operating continuity and execution of daily priorities while driving performance in safety, quality, reliability, cost, and organizational capability. The Area Leader also coaches and develops team members and Supervisors to strengthen capability and performance.
Location: 1969 Victory Dr, Columbus, GA 31901 (Hostess Manufacturing Plant)
Work Arrangements: 100% on-site. PM Shift. This role provides flexible leadership coverage across a 24/7 operation. Schedules will vary based on business needs and require flexibility across shifts, days of the week, weekends, holidays, and hours of work. The role may transition to a flow-to-the-work or line-assigned Area Leader schedule as business needs evolve.
In this Role You Will:
- Execute daily management activities, complete Leader Standard Work, and follow through on operating team priorities and open actions.
- Provide leadership across operating teams and production areas as assigned, including leadership needs created by vacations, scheduled days off, vacancies, training, and other operational requirements.
- Demonstrate flexibility to work across varying shifts, days, and hours, including nights, weekends, holidays, and other off-hours, based on business needs.
- Champion the department daily plan and participate in Daily Direction Setting (DDS) meetings and shift handoffs to ensure priorities, risks, and actions are clearly communicated.
- Be accountable for daily operations and team performance in safety, quality, reliability, cost, and organizational capability while leading assigned areas.
- Execute and document Leader Standard Work, including floor presence, employee engagement, confirmation of critical standards, escalation of abnormalities, and follow-up on corrective actions.
- Role model our Basic Beliefs, Our Commitment to Each Other, and Emotional Intelligence to build resonance.
- Partner with operating teams to identify, escalate, and resolve safety and quality concerns in a timely manner.
- Drive department issues to root cause and support a zero-loss and continuous improvement culture.
- Partner with line-assigned Area Leaders and the Department Manager to execute performance management, staffing, training, and capability-building priorities.
- Ensure essential business information, shift expectations, and follow-up actions are clearly communicated and understood during transitions between leaders and shifts.
- Develop and coach the operational and leadership skills of Supervisors, Team Leaders, and Technicians through Operations Excellence (OpEx) tools and design principles.
- Lead and support key technical and organizational projects while building OpEx capability across the organization.
- Collaborate across departments, pillars, and leadership teams and serve as a technical and operational resource for operating teams.
- Demonstrate the flexibility and capability to transition to a line-assigned or flow-to-the-work Area Leader schedule as business needs evolve.
What We are Looking For:
Minimum Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree is required (preferably an Engineering, operations, business, or related field degree)
- 2 years of manufacturing operations experience
- 2 years of supervisory or people leadership experience
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- 5 years’ or more years of relevant manufacturing leadership experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience coaching, developing, and leading others.
- Experience planning and executing projects.
- Experience leading teams in a high-performance work environment.
- Experience in food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, engineering, or a related manufacturing environment.
Work Environment: This position operates in a 24/7 food manufacturing environment and requires regular presence on the production floor. The noise level in the work environment and manufacturing sites can be high.
Physical Demands:
- Regularly required to talk and hear.
- Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Able to lift objects up to 50 pounds frequently.
- May push and pull heavy objects.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
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The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
Your Opportunity as an Area Leader (Assistant Production Manager)
The Area Leader provides leadership and operational support across a 24/7 food manufacturing operation, leading hourly Technicians, Team Leaders, and Supervisors as assigned. This role ensures operating continuity and execution of daily priorities while driving performance in safety, quality, reliability, cost, and organizational capability. The Area Leader also coaches and develops team members and Supervisors to strengthen capability and performance.
Location: 1969 Victory Dr, Columbus, GA 31901 (Hostess Manufacturing Plant)
Work Arrangements: 100% on-site. PM Shift. This role provides flexible leadership coverage across a 24/7 operation. Schedules will vary based on business needs and require flexibility across shifts, days of the week, weekends, holidays, and hours of work. The role may transition to a flow-to-the-work or line-assigned Area Leader schedule as business needs evolve.
In this Role You Will:
- Execute daily management activities, complete Leader Standard Work, and follow through on operating team priorities and open actions.
- Provide leadership across operating teams and production areas as assigned, including leadership needs created by vacations, scheduled days off, vacancies, training, and other operational requirements.
- Demonstrate flexibility to work across varying shifts, days, and hours, including nights, weekends, holidays, and other off-hours, based on business needs.
- Champion the department daily plan and participate in Daily Direction Setting (DDS) meetings and shift handoffs to ensure priorities, risks, and actions are clearly communicated.
- Be accountable for daily operations and team performance in safety, quality, reliability, cost, and organizational capability while leading assigned areas.
- Execute and document Leader Standard Work, including floor presence, employee engagement, confirmation of critical standards, escalation of abnormalities, and follow-up on corrective actions.
- Role model our Basic Beliefs, Our Commitment to Each Other, and Emotional Intelligence to build resonance.
- Partner with operating teams to identify, escalate, and resolve safety and quality concerns in a timely manner.
- Drive department issues to root cause and support a zero-loss and continuous improvement culture.
- Partner with line-assigned Area Leaders and the Department Manager to execute performance management, staffing, training, and capability-building priorities.
- Ensure essential business information, shift expectations, and follow-up actions are clearly communicated and understood during transitions between leaders and shifts.
- Develop and coach the operational and leadership skills of Supervisors, Team Leaders, and Technicians through Operations Excellence (OpEx) tools and design principles.
- Lead and support key technical and organizational projects while building OpEx capability across the organization.
- Collaborate across departments, pillars, and leadership teams and serve as a technical and operational resource for operating teams.
- Demonstrate the flexibility and capability to transition to a line-assigned or flow-to-the-work Area Leader schedule as business needs evolve.
What We are Looking For:
Minimum Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree is required (preferably an Engineering, operations, business, or related field degree)
- 2 years of manufacturing operations experience
- 2 years of supervisory or people leadership experience
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- 5 years’ or more years of relevant manufacturing leadership experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience coaching, developing, and leading others.
- Experience planning and executing projects.
- Experience leading teams in a high-performance work environment.
- Experience in food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, engineering, or a related manufacturing environment.
Work Environment: This position operates in a 24/7 food manufacturing environment and requires regular presence on the production floor. The noise level in the work environment and manufacturing sites can be high.
Physical Demands:
- Regularly required to talk and hear.
- Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Able to lift objects up to 50 pounds frequently.
- May push and pull heavy objects.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
LI-JS1
INDSA
The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Assistant Production Manager
Match your credentials to EB-2 or EB-3
An EB-2 petition requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience in production management. EB-3 covers a four-year degree or at least two years of skilled work experience. Gather official transcripts, employment verification letters, and org charts showing supervisory scope before you start applying.
Target manufacturers with established PERM history
Production facilities in automotive, food processing, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods regularly sponsor foreign production managers through PERM. Search DOL disclosure data to identify employers who have filed PERM applications for similar production roles in the past two years, not just general engineering or operations titles.
Search verified sponsors on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to find employers with documented green card sponsorship history for production and operations roles. Filtering by industry and location helps you avoid wasting applications on companies that handle only H-1B visa transfers and have never initiated a PERM process for a production manager position.
Understand what PERM recruitment requires from you
Your employer must run a DOL-mandated recruitment test before filing PERM, including job postings and sometimes internal advertising. You'll need to respond promptly if the employer asks you to review your resume against the posted job description, since your qualifications must clearly satisfy the minimum requirements stated in those ads.
Use OFLC Wage Search to verify your offered salary tier
PERM requires the employer to pay at least the prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Before accepting an offer, run your job title and metro area through OFLC Wage Search to confirm whether the offered rate meets the Level II or Level III threshold USCIS will scrutinize during I-140 adjudication.
Preserve your priority date if you change employers
Once your original I-140 is approved and your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more, AC21 portability lets you move to a substantially similar production management role at a new employer without restarting the entire PERM process. Confirm the new role's SOC code matches or closely overlaps your original petition before resigning.
Green Card Assistant Production Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Which green card category typically applies to Assistant Production Manager roles?
Most Assistant Production Manager positions qualify under EB-3 for professionals holding a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, operations management, or a related field. If you hold a master's degree or have a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive production management experience, your employer can file under EB-2 instead, which often means shorter priority-date waits for some countries of birth.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
Green card sponsorship through PERM is a permanent immigration benefit, not a temporary status. Your employer must first obtain a prevailing wage determination from DOL, complete a formal recruitment test to show no qualified U.S. workers are available, then file a PERM application, an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS, and finally an I-485 or consular processing application. There is no lottery, but per-country numerical limits mean nationals of high-demand countries can face significant priority-date backlogs before the final step is reachable.
How do I find Assistant Production Manager employers who sponsor green cards?
Start by searching Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified green card sponsorship history for production and operations roles, searchable by location and job type. You can also cross-reference DOL PERM disclosure data to confirm that a specific employer has filed PERM applications for comparable titles recently, since willingness to sponsor varies significantly even within the same industry.
Can I change employers after my green card process has started?
You can change employers without restarting from scratch under two conditions. If your original I-140 petition was approved, a new employer can often carry over your priority date when filing a new I-140. If your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more, AC21 portability lets you transfer to a same or similar occupation at a new employer. Both rules require careful documentation to avoid USCIS issuing a request for evidence.
What production experience documentation strengthens a PERM application?
DOL and USCIS scrutinize whether your qualifications exactly satisfy the minimum job requirements stated in the PERM posting. Collect signed employment verification letters naming specific production systems you managed, output volumes, team sizes, and equipment types. For EB-2 experience-based cases, letters must collectively account for at least five years of progressive responsibility, with each employer confirming start and end dates and reporting structure.