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In order to be considered for employment with Mertz Manufacturing, YOU MUST FIRST complete a Mertz employment application. You may apply in person at 1701 N. Waverly, Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm. You may complete an application anytime online at https://www.mertzok.com/index.php/careers/. Once the pdf application is completed and electronically signed, email a copy to: https://www.mertzok.com/index.php/contact-us/ CAREER OPPORTUNITIES link. In the SUBJECT LINE of the email, include: Application: (Your Name) If you do not wish to complete the application electronically, it can be printed and completed in writing and submitted in person. Or you can apply on Indeed.com.

About Mertz Manufacturing

Mertz Manufacturing, Inc., founded in 1927 in Ponca City, OK, designs and builds a wide range of custom steel fabricated products. The majority of our products are specifically designed trailers to serve as the mobile platform for our customers specialized equipment, typically used in the Oil & Gas industry. We also build stationary structures to house or transport equipment. Very often, our products involve complicated electronics and hydraulics to achieve the results our customers require. All of our products are custom designed and built to our customers exacting specifications for the quantities and delivery times the customer requires. Frequently, customers approach Mertz with an idea for a product to fill a unique business need with little more than a sketch to work from. Often, our customers are looking for results that either defy the laws of physics or the state highway system. Mertz has consistently been able to work with our customers to find unique and affordable solutions to these complex problems. Mertz ability to take a customer idea from inception through design, prototyping, and final production with the highest commitment to quality and safety have earned our customers trust. Mertz has about 200 employees and growing as the Oil & Gas industry revives. Just under half of our workforce consists of welders followed by almost equal numbers of painters, machinists, assembly mechanics, and steel cutting and forming workers. We also have a design team and other support functions that provide essential services such as purchasing, quality control, inventory, and IT.

Product Manager Position

The Product Manager is the primary customer interface for the company. Our Product Managers interact with customers from our initial contact all the way through the product lifecycle. The Product Manager serves as the customer focal point to insure all their needs are met with quality, cost-effective products delivered on-time. Internally, the product manager interacts heavily with our sales, design, and production teams as customer products go from request, through design, production and final delivery. Product Managers provide key up-front interaction with new and existing customers in understanding their needs and requirements. The Product Manager then matches those up with our design and production capabilities and provides quotes for products based on drawings and specifications. The Product Manager is the primary escalation point for any customer questions or concerns for anything Mertz provides them.

Duties and Responsibilities

Interface with customers to understand their needs and expectations. This often includes concepts for products that arent fully developed requiring the Product Manager to assist in refinement of the specifications.

Based on customer requirements and designs for products, the Product Manager prepares customer product quotes, often using incomplete information requiring key assumptions to be made and documented.

Coordinate with the customer and work with the Mertz design and production teams to e tablish product delivery schedules.

Prepares, coordinates, and conducts manufacturing reviews to review drawings and the required production process with the manufacturing team.

Prepares Bill of Material (BOM) for products and makes changes to existing BOMs to insure all purchased and manufactured parts are identified.

Designs routings and travelers and input them into the ERP system. These are the steps through the shop and the associated machines/work cells a product must flow through to be produced.

Communicate with the customer the need for design changes to improve and/or reduce the cost of the product.

Establish or modify new manufactured part numbers as required. Maintain standard cost and labor hours for the production of parts for each operation in the production plant and monitor performance against standard.

Request new part numbers for purchased parts as required for BOMs.

Input new routings into the ERP system with accurate operation times and update as required to reflect best standard times.

Review job costs and update BOMs and/or routings to insure accurate parts, operations, and standard costs.

Interface regularly with various departments including: Design, Production, Accounting and Inventory.

Maintain custo