Shop Floor Manager

Shop Floor Manager

Reports to - Senior Production Manager

Shift - Early 6am - 14:15pm Friday 6am - 12pm

Department - Military

Role Summary

Accountable as the focal point for the delivery of production plans, ensuring competitiveness by maximising On Time Start (OTS) and On Time Finish (OTF), therefore reducing dwell. Optimising the team organisation, communicating and development of team members, as well as the appropriate use of available material resources to achieve and enforce the company standards for safety and environment, quality, people, delivery and cost.

Role Specific

Will include but is not limited to:

• Managing the team: Lead and develop the team reporting to the role, enabling it to meet the operational objectives within scope and complying with and enforcing the internal regulatory guidelines of the Company for safety and quality. Minimising staff absence and attrition through engaging with employees and following all relevant processes.
• Managing production activities: Planning, directing and controlling production activities by analysing the workload and capacity of its resources (human and equipment), in order to ensure the fulfilment of the operational objectives by maximising OTS and OTF, and therefore minimising dwell through the use of management tools and systems, and correcting the potential deviations from the plan. Driving required efficiency, utilisation and productivity to meet required budgets, quality targets and achieve the Production plan. Deputising for Production Manager(s) as required, including during periods of absence
• Developing preventative activities: Responsible for complying with and enforcing the necessary preventive measures to avoid or reduce occupational and environmental risks, using the appropriate management tools.
• Communication: Drive correct and effective communication with the team, conveying operational objectives, the expected achievement level and action plans. Must be the point of reference of downward communication for all day-to-day topics of the company and upward communication as a regular channel for employees.
• Ensuring team qualifications/certifications: Taking the necessary actions to ensure that the team members have the required qualifications and certifications, as well as training required by the process, procedure and/or customer.
• Complying with Policies and Procedures: Complying with and enforcing the procedures, policies and systems established in scope, promoting improvements, and calling for the necessary support for their implementation.
• Identifying Risk: Identify potential and mitigate risks and that would affect people as well as products, or equipment, escalating to the Production Manager as necessary, and using the appropriate management tools.
• Analysing Indicators: Analysing indicators for production, maintenance, and quality using the relevant tools/systems (i.e. WFM, Spotfire/Tropos). Prioritise the improvement plans derived from the indicators and lead the implementation teams to identify problems and recommend solutions that increase productivity, and also actively participating in corrective actions proposed by others.
• Energise improvements: To energise, propose and lead improvement of processes, management systems and organisation, within scope of responsibility, according to company procedure.
• Energise meetings: Energise and lead regular interdepartmental meetings to achieve maximum efficiency.
• Competencies

Rigor

Acts consistently, with professionalism, responsibility, and respect even in difficult personal situations - Act in a rigorous, coherent and collaborative manner, establishing relationships and actions based on personal and professional respect, even in difficult situations.

Result oriented

Does the work exceeding the expectations of quality, time, and cost, optimizes the work process itself improving standards and makes reasonable improvement proposals in scope of responsibility - Focus professional activity on doing the job right on the first try to achieve the time, quality and cost objectives, through adequate planning and organisation of resources and continuous improvement.

Customer focus

Tracks and responds to customer needs beyond their expectations - Understand and satisfy the needs of internal and customers, reconciling the interests of both parties.

Teamwork

Participates collaboratively and assertively with the work team, involves them in their progress and promotes the collaboration of their members - Collaborate and cooperate with the rest of the team members to achieve the objectives and by sharing with the team their own resources, knowledge and skills.

Openness and adaptation

Shows willingness to change, accepts the need to be flexible and adapts to change - Make professional performance more flexible and adapt according to different situations with a focus on continuous and innovative improvement

People Management

Communicates and guides people toward goals, follows up, and gives feedback, and directs people toward high performance - Direct and guide the team towards the achievement of the company objectives of the organisation, providing the necessary resources and knowledge and providing motivation and support.

Planning

Organises their own work and prioritises own activities; schedules activities in advance and takes into account the necessary resources - Anticipate and assign in a logical and orderly way the actions to continue distributing resources to achieve the results, applying in its field of competence the continuous improvement for the achievement of the professional objectives in time, quality and cost through an effective management of its own work and that of its team.

Organised vision

Knowledge of the formal and informal structure and interactions in their scope - Understand the formal and informal structure of the company and the implications of its actions in the organisation as a whole.

Negotiation

Identifies own position and interests and takes into account the position and interests of others - Reconcile different criteria with the aim of reaching satisfactory agreements for the parties involved, creating elements that add value to the relationship.

Essential Characteristics

• Demonstrable experience in a manufacturing supervisory position
• Knowledge of the disciplines of manufacturing management, such as production and inventory control, and standard cost systems
• Strong IT skills, including but not limited to use of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc)
• Strong oral and written communication skills, able to communicate at all levels within the business
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong influencing, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to develop and motivate a high-involvement team

Desired Characteristics

• Knowledge of production/manufacturing operations
• Knowledge and application of Six Sigma principles
• Prior experience with regulatory agencies and knowledge of requirements
• Knowledge of our products, processes, customer requirements and budgeting/financial processes

Essential Responsibilities

• EHS - Promote a safe workplace environment without risk to health and minimising the impact to the environment. Ensure that all Environmental, Health and Safety policies, procedures, rules and regulations are adhered to and that all accidents and incidents are reported
• Clocking and Booking - Ensure that all required clockings (time and attendance) and bookings (job costings) are made in an accurate and timely manner
• Housekeeping - Ensure that workstations are kept clean and maintained, with all tools and equipment stored correctly. Uphold a clear desk policy
• Quality - Ensure that all Quality standards, processes and procedures are complied with. All work is completed with care and attention minimising wastage
• Cost Management - Support cost reduction and management initiatives through reducing unnecessary expenditure
• Knowledge & Skills - Keep knowledge and training up to date for necessary operations to the best of your knowledge and belief to achieve specification and acceptable standards for your role. For example, Approved Operator (AO) stamp(s) to be kept up to date
• Team Working - Must actively participate in team meetings and be prepared to share knowledge, coach and mentor trainees when required, be willing to be trained in other areas
• Any other reasonable duties that fall in line with the level of the role

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security.

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