Hire a Fractional Production Manager
Pre-screened Production Managers who have cut scrap, rebuilt shift schedules, and hit on-time delivery targets in plants like yours, matched to your line in about 3 days.
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When to hire a Fractional Production Manager
Bring in a Production Manager when output, cost, or delivery is slipping and nobody on your team has the time or experience to fix the system behind it.
Ship dates keep slipping
Orders leave late, expediting has become routine, and your customers have started asking for recovery plans.
Scrap and rework are eating margin
Yield is drifting, root causes go untracked, and material cost per unit climbs every quarter.
Overtime is covering for bad scheduling
Shifts run long to make up for changeover losses, unplanned downtime, and a schedule built on guesswork.
Your production lead just left
Supervisors are holding the floor together, but nobody owns planning, staffing, or the weekly KPI review.
A new line or SKU launch is coming
You need someone to write work instructions, train crews, and coordinate suppliers before volume ramps.
You have no reliable production data
OEE, cycle time, and labor efficiency live in spreadsheets, if they are tracked at all.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional Production Manager
A fractional Production Manager gives you senior plant leadership on schedules, throughput, and quality, scoped to the hours your operation actually needs.
Bring OEE discipline to the floor on a retainer
Get a seasoned leader tracking OEE, scrap, and labor efficiency each week without carrying another full-time plant salary and benefits package.
Stabilize the line before peak season orders hit
Meet pre-screened Production Managers within days, so your schedule and staffing are under control before the backlog grows.
Install lean systems proven in plants like yours
Every operator has run production in settings like yours, from discrete assembly to food and process lines, and brings working 5S, SOP, and shift-handoff systems.
How to hire a Fractional Production Manager
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional Production Manager is easy with Go Fractional.
Intro Call
Answer a few quick questions, then book a free 30-minute intro call with our team to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Our AI finds Fractional Production Manager candidates whose past clients and projects match your brief, which you won’t find on LinkedIn. A dedicated executive recruiter verifies each one’s experience, fit, and genuine interest, and you meet the ones who fit in about 3 days.
Start Work
Book time with candidates right from your shortlist, choose your operator, and sign a simple month-to-month agreement. We move as fast as you do.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional Production Manager
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional Production Manager on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim Production Manager
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Fractional Production Manager rates average $158/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
Production Manager Hourly RatesFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get Production Manager leadership, and where each one wins.
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| Factor | Fractional Production Manager | Full-time Production Manager | Manufacturing consultancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days | 2-5 months | 2-6 weeks |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, scoped SOW | Salary + bonus + benefits | Project fees with firm markup |
| Floor presence | Scheduled on-site and remote cadence | Daily, every shift | Workshops and periodic site visits |
| Ownership of KPIs | Owns throughput, scrap, and OTIF targets | Owns targets long term | Recommends; your team executes |
| Knowledge retention | SOPs and dashboards handed to your supervisors | Stays with the employee | Often leaves with the deck |
| Best for | Fixing output and building systems, flexibly | Stable, multi-shift plants at scale | One-off assessments or capex studies |
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“It was a refreshing process and I thought it was super high quality. I really couldn't have asked for anything more given everybody is pressed for time and especially where I sit in the organization, I don't have a lot of time to pour into this as I'm running the business.”
“I think what working with Go Fractional has really done is allowed us to have a high level of continuity at the executive level, even if there is attrition or certain situations where there's a gap. I think more than anything, we've just seen projects and initiatives get done, in a way that I don't think would have been possible without the Go Fractional’s support.”
“Hiring an executive team is critical to get right. The Fractional Operator we brought on played a key role in helping me screen, interview, and generally think through building out our executive team at ChartHop. He brought an outside perspective from someone that has done it before, and I benefited from the additional horsepower.”
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