- 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.
- 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.
- Lean Production trained.
- Syspro trained
- Engineering qualification.
- Plastics Tooling & maintenance
- Injection moulding process.
- Injection moulding machine maintenance