<p><strong>Production Manager role in Madison, WI. For immediate consideration contact Jon Wright at 608-338-1052.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Robert Half is working with a well-respected manufacturing company to find a Production Manager to join their team. The company would like an experienced Production Manager to lead manufacturing operations in Madison, Wisconsin. This role is responsible for coordinating day-to-day production activities, maintaining output and quality targets, and partnering with cross-functional teams to keep work moving efficiently. The ideal candidate brings strong leadership, sound operational judgment, and a continuous improvement mindset to support safety, performance, and on-time delivery.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Direct daily manufacturing operations by setting production priorities, assigning resources, and keeping schedules on track.</p><p>• Oversee workflow across production lines to ensure finished goods are completed on time and according to established standards.</p><p>• Review production performance regularly, make schedule adjustments when conditions change, and resolve issues that affect throughput.</p><p>• Work closely with design and engineering teams to confirm products are built to required specifications, materials, process expectations, and quality benchmarks.</p><p>• Partner with customer service, purchasing, warehousing, shipping, receiving, procurement, logistics, and quality teams to support smooth execution across the operation.</p><p>• Lead efforts to investigate manufacturing problems, implement corrective actions, and improve overall productivity while reducing waste.</p><p>• Analyze operational data and prepare clear updates for senior leadership on output, efficiency, labor, and quality results.</p><p>• Supervise production personnel, including recruiting, onboarding, coaching, performance evaluations, and disciplinary actions when needed.</p><p>• Facilitate routine production meetings and promote best practices that strengthen safety, compliance, employee engagement, and manufacturing performance.</p><p>• Maintain adherence to health, safety, environmental, labor, and regulatory requirements while serving as a key contact for customers, vendors, contractors, and business partners.</p>
We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to create and enhance secure, scalable cloud environments that support modern application and data solutions. This position suits a technically strong individual who enjoys combining infrastructure, automation, and application engineering to deliver reliable enterprise platforms. You will collaborate with engineering and architecture partners to improve cloud performance, strengthen operational practices, and advance DevOps capabilities.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Architect, build, and maintain Azure-based cloud environments that support both application workloads and data services.<br>• Develop resilient platform solutions using cloud services such as app hosting, serverless components, container orchestration, traffic routing, and gateway technologies.<br>• Define and manage infrastructure through code with tools such as Bicep or comparable frameworks to improve consistency and repeatability.<br>• Create automated delivery pipelines using platforms like GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps to enable testing, deployment, and controlled release strategies.<br>• Support containerized applications by working with Docker and Kubernetes to improve deployment efficiency and operational stability.<br>• Work closely with software engineers to refine cloud-native designs for stronger scalability, availability, and performance.<br>• Apply security-focused engineering practices, including identity controls, access management, and Zero Trust principles across cloud services.<br>• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities using tools such as Azure Monitor and Application Insights to improve operational insight.<br>• Lead cost management efforts by evaluating resource usage, recommending optimization opportunities, and enforcing governance standards.<br>• Produce clear technical documentation for platform architecture, deployment patterns, and operational procedures to support long-term scalability.
We are looking for an experienced Data/Information Architect to help shape and guide modern cloud and data architecture initiatives in Madison, Wisconsin. This contract opportunity is ideal for a senior specialist who can connect enterprise architecture strategy with hands-on engineering across cloud platforms, automation, and scalable data solutions. The role focuses on designing resilient, secure, and high-performing environments that support distributed applications, platform services, and evolving business needs.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead the design of enterprise data and cloud architecture solutions that align technical strategy with operational goals.<br>• Create scalable architectures for distributed applications using microservices, container platforms, and serverless capabilities where appropriate.<br>• Define and implement infrastructure automation standards with tools such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or Pulumi to improve consistency and speed.<br>• Establish CI/CD practices and deployment workflows that support reliable software delivery and efficient environment management.<br>• Architect container-based workloads with strong consideration for networking, access control, monitoring, and overall platform stability.<br>• Develop integration patterns and event-driven solution designs that improve interoperability across cloud services and business systems.<br>• Partner with engineering and business stakeholders to document architecture decisions, communicate technical direction, and support long-term roadmap planning.<br>• Contribute to modern data platform design, including data lakes, warehouses, streaming pipelines, and data modeling approaches for analytics and operational use cases.<br>• Promote secure architecture principles by embedding compliance, encryption, least-privilege access, and risk mitigation into platform and data designs.<br>• Mentor team members and encourage engineering best practices across architecture governance, cloud operations, and platform development.