Production Manager | Aerospace & Chemical

The Production Manager is responsible for ensuring performance to established safety, quality and productivity standards and best practices through engagement and involvement of work cell employees. In addition, they will lead the continuous improvement process to optimize safety, quality and productivity within defined manufacturing system and process limits through Area Improvement Teams and other best practice approaches.

Client Details

Our client is a leading science company whose ground-breaking technologies revolutionize the way we live. The client plays a key role in the future of clean mobility and bring about breakthroughs in biotechnology, natural ingredients, and circular solutions, contributing to sustainable, high-performance products for homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, smart devices, and healthcare applications.

Description

• Ensure execution of the manufacturing plan to ensure safe operations, 1st pass Quality yield, schedule adherence and meet production volumes,
• Drive root cause corrective actions for Safety incidents/near misses and address of Customer/manufacturing Quality issues,
• Lead the work Area Team. Communicate and reinforce expectations. Monitor performance and take corrective actions to ensure compliance with HSE and Quality and best practices and productivity targets by executing the performance management process. (i.e. HSE leading indicators, 1st pass yield, Customer complaints and other performance metrics)
• Ensure work cell resources are adequate to meet plan (Right people in the right role at the right time)
• Drive meaningful year-over-year improvement within established boundaries via employee engagement and continuous improvement tools, such as workout, kaizen, lean sigma, etc.
• Participate in the development of work cell operating plan (Key X's, Labor Plan, Budget etc.) and action plans.
• Support cross functional, plant-wide improvement initiatives
• Provides visible leadership and involves whole team in improvement activities to grow skills and increase engagement.

Profile

• Bachelor's of Science, Engineering
• Minimum 5-7 years manufacturing/ engineering leadership role
• An obvious history of roles that clearly demonstrate successful Team Leadership, Problem Solving, Lean Improvement and business results
• Clear understanding of Lean principles with demonstrated utilization and significant results
• Leadership of continuous improvement team initiative with significant results,
• Experience in Six-Sigma problem solving team initiatives with significant results

Job Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• 16, or more weeks, of maternity/paternity and co-parenting leave, according to local regulations
• Training platform for all employees
• Free language courses (24 languages available)

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