We are delighted to be working with our client, who are an exciting growing tier 1 automotive supplied. Following a series of acquisition, investment, and promotion they are now seeking a new Production Manager to join them, helping to shape the future of production across their state-of-the-art facility.
Working as a Production Manager the scope of the role will include but not limited to:
- Ensuring all employees comply with Life Saving Rules by managing Health, Safety and Environmental aspects, keeping a safe and organised workplace through deployment of effective 5S+ activities and risk assessments to minimise all accidents and near misses.
- Being an influential manager in the senior management team.
- Responsible for production output achieving targets required to maintain a profitable business in accordance with budget expectations.
- Taking the lead for all production personnel including support services Maintenance, Toolroom, & Technical support.
- Leading this team and maintain its strength together.
- Managing the compliance, ensuring Standard Work is in place and is the method used for all activities providing a flexible system to cater for customer needs.
- Leading Improvement activities using A3 and QOS to reduce scrap levels and escalate issues where support is required.
- Conducting daily process checks to verify Quality, EHS and Productivity to the approved and expected standard. Capture any ideas for improvement and lead these to completion.
- Improving profitability through the minimisation of costs and the use of continuous improvement.
- Using tools including Rapid Improvement events and kaizen involving employees in the work areas to gain commitment to change and build employee engagement and empowerment.
- Collecting and analyse measures and report to daily tier meeting any issue where support is required outside business unit control.
- Driving down costs of Scrap, Efficiency & improving OEE.
- A proven track record working within a tier 1 automotive environment.
- Knowledge of pressing and plastic mouldings.
- Technical engineering background.
- Lean manufacturing knowledge.
To be considered for this fantastic opportunity as a Production Manager, please click apply now.