Job Title: Production Manager - North Dublin
Location: County Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Salary: Competitive
Job Description
We are seeking a highly qualified and experienced Production Manager to join our team. As a key member of our proactive and focussed Production Department, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that all key objectives and targets are achieved.
Core Responsibilities:
* The creation, implementation, monitoring, and achievement of the Master Build Schedule, with a strong focus on delivery performance, prescribed stock levels, quality, and productivity measures.
* Overseeing daily productivity, ensuring on-time delivery, and cost-effective delivery of the production schedule.
* Monitoring, tracking, and improving daily, weekly, and quarterly production KPIs.
* Managing a team of Cell Leaders/Supervisors, ensuring clear and concise directions are imparted and maintained.
* Ensuring quality metrics are achieved and quality standards are clear, understood, and maintained.
* Actively managing projects to drive a culture of innovation and continuous improvement through the department, delivering year-on-year efficiency improvements.
* Leading the function and direct reports to ensure a highly effective workforce aligned to company goals.
* Managing development and training of the team to ensure employees are highly skilled and achieving their potential.
* Communicating effectively across the department and across functions.
* Ensuring employees are informed, engaged, and clear on the company's strategy, goals, and objectives.
* Recruitment of Production Operators/Cell Leaders.
* Setting the operational plan for the department and managing effective delivery of this.
* Managing and controlling to ensure company goals are achieved.
* Interface with Design, Quality, Assembly & Testing, and Sales functions to ensure production lead times and quality standards are met.
* Implementation of best practice in Health & Safety compliance.
* Ensuring all employees follow industry-standard health and safety guidelines.
Requirements:
* Proven experience in operating a successful Production Department where they have been responsible for production planning, quality, personnel, costs, and all outputs from a modern cellular manufacturing facility.
* At least 3-5 years' hands-on experience in a complex ERP/MRP environment, from creating plans to managing capacities and outputs.
* Production management and performance evaluation.
* Appropriate PC skills consistent with such a position, including Microsoft Access, Excel, etc.
* Must be innovative/creative, flexible, able to multi-task, and have a 'hands-on' approach.
* HR practices, good judgment, and decision-making skills. Can deal with employees on a one-to-one basis.
* Can operate within a multi-disciplinary team of Managers who are responsible for Facilities, Purchasing, Materials, Finance, Engineering, and Design-related issues both on-site and overseas.
* Excellent organisational and leadership skills with high attention to detail.
* Strong decision-making skills and a results-driven approach.