Job Description
The role involves leading, organizing, developing, directing, and controlling the activities of the production team to achieve short and long-range goals and objectives.
About The Role
This person will work closely with the team in all activities to ensure safety, profitability, and success of the production team.
* Leadership of your team and area to ensure full Health, safety and Environmental compliance and initiatives are followed.
* Demonstrate good leadership skills to manage a team of production supervisors/team leaders and work closely with cross-functional teams.
* Management of the production process, ensuring production & quality targets are achieved.
* Manage the delivery of customer-ready quality to both internal and external customers with zero defects.
* Identify areas for process improvement and implement initiatives to enhance productivity and cost-efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
* Performance management of all team members in your area of responsibility, setting and managing yearly smart goals in line with High Performance framework.
* Overall responsibility of maintenance and training for equipment specific to your area.
* Strategic planning of headcount, production costs, and spend to within budget and targets.
* Identify production CAPEX requirements to ensure capability, support organisational strategies.
* Work closely with the leadership team to drive operational improvements, order fulfillment, quality control, and shipping.
* Evaluate and expeditiously evaluate internal and external quality feedback and act on it from key department managers.
* Prepare, review, and manage production and distribution budgets that ensure all financial objectives are achieved.
* Train, develop, and coach direct reports in hiring, staff development, disciplinary actions, and human resource policy.
Required Criteria
* Education: A third-level qualification in engineering/business-related subjects or 3 years of experience managing a team, preferably in a heavy engineering environment, or 5 years at a supervisor level in a manufacturing environment.
* Significant experience in manufacturing management in a lean, heavy equipment manufacturing environment.
* Experience planning and coordinating production schedules to meet customer and shipping demands.
* Experience working with shipping and logistics departments.
* Coping with pressures and setbacks.
* Experience using an ERP system, specifically Epicor/Oracle, would be advantageous.
* Experience with budget management.
* Ability to interact professionally with all levels of internal management, staff, as well as outside clients and suppliers.
* Knowledge of continuous improvement lean methodology.
* A high degree of tact, diplomacy, and discretion is required.
* Able and willing to drive improvements and effectively champion change.
About The Company
Telestack designs and manufactures equipment for the quarrying and aggregate, mining, port, and terminal sectors from its headquarters in Omagh.
Based across two nearby sites, Telestack has grown extensively in numbers and employs people across a range of disciplines, including engineering (design, mechanical, electrical), manufacturing, fabrication, quality, supply chain, project management, aftermarket and product support, sales, marketing, finance, HR, IT, and many more.
In addition, their turnover has increased substantially in that short period, and they are now one of the key private employers in the locality.
Utilising industry-leading software and technologies, Telestack has a track record of firsts.
Their engineering team has developed concepts that have changed the nature of the sectors in which they operate.
Guided by industry best practice, Telestack boasts all the benefits of a large corporate company while maintaining the culture and ethos of a local family operation.
The Telestack solutions are world-renowned, and the brand is known, respected, and sought-after by large blue-chip companies globally.