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Production Manager

Pertemps Dudley West Brom Perms
Posted 8 days ago, valid for a month
Location

Kingswinford, West Midlands DY6 7LJ, England

Salary

£55,000 - £60,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Annual Salary: £55,000 to £60,000 (DOE)
  • Year of Experience Required: Minimum of 5 years in a similar role
  • Main Role Duties include leading the factory team to achieve production targets, ensuring safety, delivery, productivity, and quality goals are met
  • Desirable skills include management qualification or 5 years' experience in plastics production, technical background in plastics, and ability to manage multiple discipline teams
  • Advantageous skills include Lean Production training, Syspro training, engineering qualification, and experience in injection moulding processes and machine maintenance
Are you an experienced Production Manager looking for a new career opportunity with a Major Plastics Automotive company based in Dudley? If yes, we want to hear from you!Annual Salary: £55,000 to £60,000 (DOE)Purpose of the role:To lead the factory team to achieve the production plan, ensuring safety, delivery, productivity, quality targets are all achieved through the most efficient and safe use of equipment, materials and manpower thus supporting the customer and business needs.Main Role Duties / Scope:
  • Ensure all employees comply with the 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.
  • Be 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.
  • Take the lead for all production personnel including support services
  • Maintenance, Tool room, & Technical support.
  • Lead this team and maintain its strength together.
  • Manage the compliance to standard, ensuring Standard Work is in place and is the method used for all activities providing a flexible system to cater for customer needs.
  • Lead Improvement activities using A3 and QOS to reduce scrap levels and escalate issues where support is required.
  • Conduct 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.
  • Improve profitability through the minimisation of costs and the use of continuous improvement.
  • Use tools including Rapid Improvement events and kaizen involving employees in the work areas to gain commitment to change and build employee engagement and empowerment.
  • Collect and analyse measures and report to daily tier meeting any issue where support is required outside business unit control.
  • Drive down costs of Scrap, Efficiency & improving OEE.
Person Specification / Required Skills:The successful candidate will be self-motivated, able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and feel comfortable interacting with colleagues at all levels within the business. Candidates must have a proactive and hands on approach to tasks alongside high levels of problem-solving skills. You should be capable of working to your own initiative, and competent in satisfying demanding deadlines.Desirable Skills:
  • Management qualification or minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar role.
  • Plastics production experience over 5 years.
  • Technical background in plastics.
  • Manage multiple discipline teams.
  • Team player who will take the lead.
Advantageous Skills:
  • Lean Production trained.
  • Syspro trained
  • Engineering qualification.
  • Plastics Tooling & maintenance
  • Injection moulding process.
  • Injection moulding machine maintenance
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