Production Manager

1 week ago

North Shore, New Zealand Employment Hero Full time

**PURPOSE OF POSITION**:
The Production Manager will form an integral part of the senior management team in the achievement of Operational objectives with responsibility to maximise the level of output of the production department by ensuring operating costs of the department are minimised through a lean manufacturing environment.

To provide leadership & drive continuous improvement through maximising operational effectiveness and efficiencies whilst reducing costs through development of people, processes and systems to schedule and to standards/requirements.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide strong leadership, direction and mentoring to ensure a focused and highly efficient team.
- Ensuring that jobs are manufactured correctly cost effectively and delivered on time in accordance to customer build specification and quality requirements
- Communicating with all the relevant people / departments and co-ordinating all relevant inputs (people, plant and processes) to ensure production output and on time delivery targets are achieved.
- Planning, scheduling and reviewing workload to ensure production output and on time delivery targets are achieved cost effectively.
- Ensuring that the shop floor has the necessary manpower, competence, skill, knowledge, plant and tooling required in order to achieve production targets.
- Maintain quality standards and manage any quality issues in conjunction with the quality department.
- Assist in the development of production facilities and identifying areas for improvement to enhance efficiency.
- Assist in evaluating, utilising, deployment and embedment of a range of continuous improvement and lean techniques to deliver best in class operational excellence.
- Monitor performance by the use of appropriate KPI’s as per departmental business score cards.
- Work closely with the Operations Manager to overcome and review issues as they arise.

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**:

- 2 years of progressive experience in a leadership/management role at a manufacturing facility.
- In-depth knowledge of electronic assembly and/or engineering best practices.
- Proficient understanding of IPCA-610 standards
- Bachelors level degree in Engineering or another related field.
- Strong computer skills including the ability to prepare spreadsheets and use Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Power Point and/or Access) to analyse data trends.
- Strong hands-on user of MRP/ERP software systems and maintenance systems.
- Previous experience/best practices implementing and using continuous improvement/lean tools such as; Six Sigma, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, and Transactional Lean to drive improvement.

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