PRODUCTION MANAGER

As Production Manager, reporting hierarchically to the Plant Director, you will be responsible of the following activities:

• Management and supervision of the whole production process, in light of production schedule, throughout its execution, ensuring cost effectiveness
• Management and supervision of the production workforce (direct and indirect), the skill matrix and the training needs required and planned (in liaison with HR).
• Organization of the production resources and definition of resource requirement
• Monitoring of the production processes and schedule adjustment as needed
• Monitoring of standards and quality-control programs implementation
• Realization of plant targets in terms of safety, quality, service level and efficiency, in liaison with other plant departments (i.e., HSE, quality, logistics, industrial engineering, maintenance, human resources, controlling)
• Autonomous Management (AM) pillar leadership or Workplace Organization (WO) pillar leadership within the World Class Manufacturing plant organization
• Organization of repair and routine maintenance/cleaning of production equipment performed by production workforce (direct and indirect)
• Leadership, supervision and motivation of production workforce

As our ideal candidate, your skillset includes:

• Engineering degree and an experience of 3-5 years in similar roles in manufacturing companies
• Distinctiveness in people management, team working and coaching/motivation
• Production Management toolkit like daily production meetings, production reporting, problem solving, skill matrix management, 5S, autonomous maintenance, etc.
• Good knowledge and experience of Safety and Environment concepts applied to production processes
• Basics of cost and performance accounting
• Basics of World Class Manufacturing (or other continuous improvement approaches)
• Basic knowledge of core production processes like metal stamping, welding, enameling, painting, polyurethane injection, assembly and automation
• Basic knowledge of Time & Method studies methodologies
• Robustness in analytics and problem solving, planning, time and deadlines management, stress management and fast decision-making, communication and strong entrepreneurial mindset