Product Manager

Infuse Financial; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company seeks a Production Manager to oversee the Rigid Paper manufacturing function. The successful candidate will be responsible for achieving production targets while ensuring safety and quality. This role involves coaching team members and implementing process improvements. Candidates should have significant experience in a TPM environment and hold a Lean Six Sigma qualification.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Team development opportunities

Career progression

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a TPM/technical, manufacturing environment.
• Experience in FMCG business.
• Proof of excellent results delivered as a Production Manager.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Rigid Paper manufacturing function.
• Ensure production targets are met with high safety standards.
• Coaching and developing team members for better performance.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Lean-Manufacturing tools expertise

People management skills

Communication skills

Education

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher

Bachelor in engineering related subject

Tools

Excel

Oracle

Job description

Company Profile

The company is a leading manufacturer of sustainable packaging solutions to the industrial and consumer, healthcare markets.

Title: Production Manager

Salary: Up to £60,000

Purpose Of Job

The Production Manager leads the Rigid Paper manufacturing function, managing their team, and driving it to deliver World Class results in term of Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery and Team Morale.

The Production Manager Is Responsible For

Meeting or exceeding the targets set by the Plant Manager and aligned with the business needs, ensuring production requirements and deadlines are achieved with excellent quality and service, safely

Creating and implementing a manufacturing improvement plan and new processes to drive the business results forward, working cross functionally (Engineering, Warehouse, CI,)

Coaching and developing their team to enable them to contribute to their full potential, thereby improving overall plant results

To Do This The Production Manager Will

Ensure that the equipment and resources are utilised effectively (manage and optimise labour requirements, maximise production capability)

Analyse thoroughly production data, identify losses, root cause them with the help of the teams, ensure fix, document it in a standard and train it to the teams

Lead and coach root cause problem solving

Effectively communicate priorities to the teams and escalate issues within their area of ownership

Qualifications

Required:

Production Manager experience with proof of excellent results delivered

Minimum of five years of experience in a TPM/technical, manufacturing environment

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher

Desirable

Bachelor in engineer related subject (Mechanical, Electrical, Automation)

General

Key Accountabilities:

Delivering operational targets (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Moral) across the plant

Ensure professional behaviour, and high shop floor appearance standards at all times.

Always be aware of what the shop floor results are, what the priority work is, what the future priorities are and how they are to be achieved. Make sure the team is similarly informed

Have a strong knowledge of technical aspects of lines, quality, safety, planning, reliability, and schedule adherence systems so that you can lead these activities from a position of authority

Be personally proactive (and develop team members to do the same) in looking for and executing improvements, anticipating, and fixing problems before they occur

Driving their team development and engagement to enable them to fix any problems themselves without recourse to a manager (self-sufficient teams)

Handle emergencies that might occur (e.g. fire)

Manage the performance of the Shift Leaders

Form effective working relationships with cross functional teams

Safety

Support team to deliver safety target, role model Safety

Ensure that self and team follow safety rules policies, procedures, and work in a safe manner

Ensure work environment is kept clean and tidy by the teams at all time

Control line pre-checks have been carried on each line and ensure any issue is addressed

Carry engages conversations with colleagues as per targets

Ensure safety contacts and any other safety information are shared with the teams

Ensure all near misses are reported in a timely manner

Ensure near miss investigations are complete within 24h & support root cause analysis / fix

Ensure all safety hazards are identified, recorded in defect list, and eliminated

Ensure all safety actions are completed in a timely manner

Report any safety concern to Plant Manager and Safety Coordinator

Quality

Ensure good quality of products manufactured according to specifications and meeting all legal requirements (It is expected that the Production Manager will be able to make decisions on the quality of work produced in the absence of Quality representatives)

Support investigation of QA complaints (Internal / Customer)

Ensure QA complaints are answered in a timely manner

Ensure the team quality training is up to date

Ensure all paperwork is filled in by the teams properly

Ensure line clearances are carried as per standard

Ensure teams follow reject procedure when required

Ensure rejected product is reworked within 30 days

Ensure quality actions are implemented quickly to eliminate reoccurrence of quality issues

Ensure GMP / Hygiene standards are met in production

Support site management team on visits and audits BRC, BSI etc.

Report any quality concern to Quality team / Plant Manager

Take part in internal audit programme

Take part in internal Quality reviews

Service

Define long term run rates based on past performance and improvement plan

Develop long term plan (monthly rota) in partnership with planning to ensure optimal use of lines and people

Ensure the lines run to schedule

Review planning / line priorities daily / weekly with the planner

Take part in weekly commitment meeting to align on next 3 weeks production

Ensure requests for planned downtime linked to production activities (trials, maintenance, training) are shared with planning

Identify gaps in run rates, change-over times, cleaning times in schedule, align changes with planning department for realistic production schedules

Performance / Costs

Define and monitor KPIs for manufacturing

Define manufacturing roadmap and ensure delivery (CI, project, etc.)

Deliver quality products output at or above run rate targets, safely

Escalate major issues to support departments: engineering / CI/ QA / safety teams

Ensure all changeovers / line clearance are carried within targeted time

Ensure appropriate material supply to the lines, escalate issues to warehouse when needed

Ensure accurate booking of materials and finish products

Analyse all lines downtime, root cause, action, and proposed root cause fix

Ensure line defects are recorded in defect list to drive continuous improvement and prevent breakdown

Be able to explain any gap versus target in all lines KPIs

Analyse lines performance data and develop a plan to fix top issues impacting SQDCM

Ensure waste is tracked accurately and any gap vs target to be explained and corrective actions to be implemented

Identify profit margin enhancing opportunities, develop business benefit scenarios and through effective utilisation of CI processes implement improvement projects

Ensure all Cleaning Inspection Lubrication / TPM tasks are carried as per schedule

Identify and run continuous improvement projects with the teams to deliver process improvements on waste / efficiencies / bottleneck, to meet future targets agreed with Plant Manager.

Push for manufacturing standards creation whenever knowledge is gained

Organisation

Lead the team in our continuous improvement journey

Ensure thorough preparation of the morning meeting by the production and engineering team: every loss, every stop, every speed reduction must be analysed in the form of problem root cause action and will be solved using SPS tools

Deliver manufacturing results and action plan in cross functional morning meeting

Analysis of line data (Efficiency, Stops, Quality and Safety)

Manage vacation and sickness of Shift Leaders

Long term Crewing requirements

Conduct disciplinaries where required

Work with Process Engineers to produce technical action plans to define and conduct projects

Team Development

You must fully understand the plant vision and be capable of rolling it down to your teams in a more simplistic way so that every team member is clear on their role and their contribution to the business

Communicate effectively any announcement impacting production / results

Set objectives for Shift Leaders and support objectives setting to team leaders and equipment owners

Develop team training plan and skill matrix to support production results delivery

Ensure team are trained to the correct level of skills (identify gaps and ensure training delivery)

Ensure team is trained to all Safety / Quality / Operations standards as per requirements

Manage team performance and effectiveness

Carry monthly 1:2:1 with Shift Leaders

Assist Shift Leaders in yearly performance review of Team Leaders

Individual success is measured against the following: Manufacturing efficiencies, Schedule Adherence, Cost, Quality, Safety, and Development; targets to be aligned with the Plant Manager

Skills & Competences

Leadership

Ownership: drive for results, sense of urgency, can-do and positive attitude

Integrity and trust

Passion for winning

Strong people management skills - including a strong ability to coach mentor and develop managers, operations staff, and Process Engineers

Planning / team organisation / direction setting

Initiative and action orientated mindset

Self-motivation and ability to motivate people

Pro-active thinker with the ability to problem solve in area of operation

Advanced Problem solving (8D, UPS, A3)

Trouble shooting (capability of observing a phenomena and link cause/effect, basic FI tools - Fishbone, Why-Why, WPA)

Strong Mechanical and Electrical knowledge to mirror that of the process engineers

Lean-Manufacturing tools expertise and coaching

Approachable and respected by the team members, able to give and receive feedback

High work standards, attention to details

Willingness to confront substandard work / behaviour / appearance

Managing and measuring teamwork

Building effective teams

Understanding of the production processes

Business acumen, good planning, and project management skills

KPIs, targets and objectives setting

Experience of creating, managing, and utilising a budget.

Identification of main cost drivers for further productivity potential

Knowledge of QA standards.

Knowledge of safety requirements / standards

Understanding and experience of CI and TPM

Basic computer skills to include Excel, Oracle, MyShopFloor, Outlook, Word

Ability to communicate effectively to a broad range of people (including senior managers)

Can delegate where and when required

Personal Attributes

Worked in FMCG business (blue chip preferred)

Demonstration of continuous development of skills

Proven loss elimination track record using problem solving tools

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