Production Manager

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58Job Description:Are you an experienced Production Manager seeking a new opportunity, with a growing business based in the heart of the Black Country? If yes, we want to hear from you!

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.

 The ideal Production Manager will have:

• A proven track record working within a tier 1 automotive environment.
• Knowledge of pressing and plastic mouldings.
• Technical engineering background.
• Lean manufacturing knowledge.

Working hours will be a core week of 37.5 hours, however flexibility will be required.

To be considered for this fantastic opportunity as a production manager, please click apply now.Location: West Midlands, Dudley