Value stream Leader/Production Manager

Fortive Corporation; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Value Stream Leader/Production Manager to enhance production efficiency and quality. This role involves overseeing team training, setting performance standards, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills and a background in engineering or production management, along with experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Join a diverse team that values innovation and collaboration, and contribute to redefining condition-based monitoring in a supportive workplace with excellent benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Pension plan with company contributions

Generous holiday and sick leave

Life insurance

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Flexible working hours

Remote work opportunities

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as a first-line supervisor/manager.
• Experience managing teams of 30-100 employees in manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Oversee team training and activities to meet production targets.
• Drive continuous improvement in plant policies and production techniques.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Time Management

Troubleshooting

Planning

Quality Improvement

Collaboration Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Business

Bachelor's degree in Production Management

Tools

Oracle Business Systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Qualitrol Job Description – Value Stream Leader/Production Manager

Excellent Pay and Benefits!

Qualitrol employees enjoy competitive salaries, comprehensive healthcare benefits, a pension plan with company contributions, generous holiday and sick leave, life insurance, and more. We foster a family-friendly workplace with enhanced maternity and paternity pay, adoption leave, parental leave, flexible working hours, and some remote work opportunities.

Join colleagues who are passionate about innovation and solving complex problems. We value inclusion and diversity. As a medium-sized company, Qualitrol offers autonomy, responsibility, and creativity, complemented by shared resources, standard methodologies, and growth opportunities akin to a Fortune 500 company like Fortive.

Your Impact

The Production Manager/Value Stream Leader (VSL) will oversee and coordinate team training and activities to meet production volume, quality, delivery, and cost targets. They will drive continuous improvement in plant policies and production techniques to enhance quality and efficiency.

Key responsibilities include:

• Setting performance standards and objectives for the Value Stream Team aligned with site and future goals.
• Developing and executing an annual operating plan, including Kaizen initiatives, capital projects, productivity improvements, and budgeting.
• Scaling Fortive Business Systems (Fortive's Continuous Improvement Methodology) and fostering engagement through development of cell leaders, buyers, quality engineers, and operators.
• Leading regular Gemba reviews to ensure alignment and focus on exceeding customer expectations.
• Ensuring product quality, on-time shipments, and material availability within assigned cells, collaborating with customers as needed.
• Establishing takt time goals based on forecasts and schedules, and maintaining current and future state value stream maps.
• Managing hiring, training, performance evaluations, and employee development actions.

Skills & Experience

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or Production Management (preferred).
• 3-5 years of experience as a first-line supervisor/manager.
• Strong leadership and motivational skills with a track record of leading successful teams in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing teams of 30-100 employees and handling various personnel and production challenges.
• Excellent time management, troubleshooting, planning, follow-through, and quality improvement skills.
• Knowledge of Oracle business systems (advantageous).
• Effective collaboration skills across technical and management levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Working Conditions:

• Location: Belfast
• Reports to the Director of Operations
• Manufacturing environment

About Us

QUALITROL manufactures monitoring and protection devices for high-value electrical assets and OEM manufacturing companies. Established in 1945, QUALITROL produces a wide range of customized products. We are a global leader in partial discharge monitoring, asset protection, and information products across power generation, transmission, and distribution. We are redefining condition-based monitoring.

We Are Fortive!!

Fortive’s technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation in environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

As a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit, our companies lead in software workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI automation, and disruptive technologies. We work with customers and partners worldwide to solve challenges from workplace safety to sustainability.

Our diverse team of 17,000 is driven by a culture of inclusion and growth, utilizing the Fortive Business System (FBS) to maximize impact.

We believe in your potential, your growth, and in working together to solve complex problems.

Discover more at careers.fortive.com.