Position Overview
Plans, designs, and coordinates the integration of machinery, equipment, and processes into the manufacturing process of industrial establishment by performing the following duties.
Essential Job Functions
- Trains and communicates quality objectives and quality policy to the workforce.
- Works on continuous improvement projects.
- Provides leadership and direction to the Production Team.
- Co-ordinates production activities with Production staff to insure manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Performs administrative activities associated with the effective management of a production environment.
- Enforces accurate labor reporting leading to the accuracy of inventory.
- Direct involvement with all staffing activities, including hiring, employee training, employee development, and compliance with company policy and regulations.
- Conveys and promotes quality policy and quality objectives among the production workforce.
- Establishes, conveys and promotes the adherence to developed operational and budgetary goals.
- Provides input and guidance for new product development, new technology implementation, and overall improvement strategies.
- Oversees all shifts of operation to monitor and improve operational efficiencies, and reduce overtime.
- Enforce QMS procedures and W.I.’s among the production workforce.
- Takes accountability of the effectiveness of QMS within the production group.
- Establishes and maintains a working environment that follows IATF requirements.
- Owner of continuous improvement process in compliance with QMS.
- Responsible for product conformity & implementation of corrective actions for quality problems.
- Monitors and reviews manufacturing process audit.
- Improves production efficiency, reduces scrap, and improves on-time delivery of the products.
- Implements safety procedures, organizes workplace tools like 5S, and performs kaizen events.
- Conduct daily GEMBA meetings with teams to communicate daily performance, discuss close calls and remind employees of proper procedures.
- Review daily production schedules and create team plans accordingly.
- Identify opportunities for cross-training and capacity training in order to enhance capacity and responsiveness to customer requirements.
- Ensure short throughput time and optimize the production team based on fluctuating production demands.
- Reviews and analyzes the production, quality, maintenance and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications, and operating or production problems
- Manage and direct team and work with HR to address employee issues as they arise.
- Manage disciplinary and progress reviews process.
- Enforce and monitor all company policies.
- Ensures health and safety guidelines set by the company.
- Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.