Manager production

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Role Definition
Oversees and coordinates the activities of a more complex production line, prepares schedules, resolves issues, and ensures adherence to safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities
. Creating reports and records of production processes, tools issues performance, and inventory sharing them with managers and providing suggestions to improve safety, productivity and quality.
. Preparing, maintaining, and updating documentation related to operating procedures and safety and quality standards ensuring all processes and products meet desired safety and quality standards.
. Supervising and directing the daily activities of production lines workers, assigning tasks, ensuring coordination between different teams, ensuring their safety and monitoring their performance.
. Training new hires, managing scheduling and work conflicts, monitoring safety, and promoting internal communication to create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
. Utilizes quality indicators relevant to own unit or function.
. Adheres to organizational quality management processes and practices.
. Applies key aspects of continuous improvement processes and evaluates impact on quality.
. Uses quality evaluation tools and techniques such as walkthroughs and inspections.
. Works with quality assurance methods, tools and techniques.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Working Knowledge:
. Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
. Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
. Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
. Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
. Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Planning and Organizing: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.
Level Working Knowledge:
. Raises awareness of potential bottlenecks and disruptions to the schedule.
. Breaks tasks into manageable steps that can be incorporated into a personal work plan.
. Escalates concerns over competing or conflicting priorities.
. Monitors progress continuously and adjusts tactics for handling situations on a case by case basis.
. Creates action plans that ensure the accomplishment of responsibilities.

Process Improvement: Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.
Level Working Knowledge:
. Defines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
. Identifies process problems that limit performance.
. Implements methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
. Focuses on the most significant problems to maximize efficiency gains.
. Surfaces systemic problems to be addressed at the organizational level.

Talent Management: Knowledge of human resources and talent management processes ability to lead, motivate, evaluate, and rewardemployees at the workplace.
Level Working Knowledge:
. Delegates tasks to the right people in managing a program or a group of people.
. Explains processes on hiring, leading, motivating, evaluating, developing and rewarding people.
. Coordinates work schedules and workloads for employees.
. Transforms resistance into support and turns poor performers into team players.
. Applies standard procedures and policies in the operation of talent management.

Manufacturing Operations: Knowledge of manufacturing operations ability to perform day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility for products.
Level Extensive Experience:
. Monitors organizational adherence to policies and procedures.
. Facilitates communications across departments to ensure a smooth workflow in the plant or facility.
. Evaluates the risks and safety hazards present in manufacturing operations.
. Recommends key industry benchmarks of manufacturing operations and relates to own organization.
. Supervises daily operations to ensure production targets and forecasts are achieved.
. Employs tools and techniques for anticipating demand and assuring capacity.

Manufacturing Safety: Knowledge of manufacturing safety ability to identify work-related hazards and perform necessary activities to meet regulatory requirements for the safety and protection of workers, environment and site.
Level Extensive Experience:
. Consults on the use of new tools and techniques for safety protection.
. Performs safety inspections to assure compliance with OSHA requirements.
. Designs and implements emergency response processes and procedures.
. Promotes workplace safety among supervisors and workers communicates safety rules and regulations.
. Assesses and reports unusual or new safety hazards or violations initiates corrective action.
. Ensures that all employees and contractors comply with relevant safety policies and regulations.

Production Training: Knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for delivering formal and informal training on the safe and efficient operation of production machinery ability to conduct effective formal and situation-specific training.
Level Working Knowledge:
. Prepares lesson plans and materials for upcoming training sessions.
. Documents the production process and writes user manuals detailing production machinery operation.
. Instructs staff in the basic set-up and operation of production machinery.
. Schedules and executes training sessions for production employees.
. Maintains records documenting employees successful completion of production training programs.

Engineering graduate in Mechanical / Production / Manufacturing and minimum 6 years of Experience in Axle Assembly process with good interpersonal skill

Engineering graduate in Mechanical / Production / Manufacturing and minimum 6 years of Experience in Axle Assembly process with good interpersonal skill

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