Production Manager at Givanas Group of Companies

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, review, control and adjust production schedule where needed to ensure company’s targets are met.
• Developing and implementing short- and long-term plans to ensure that production has the necessary resources to meet business objectives and volume targets without disruption.
• Ensure that all products manufactured are produced efficiently, and are consistent with company established targets and goals for quality.
• Coordinate, recommend and manage improvements to reduce costs, increase productivity and efficiency, and sustain improvements.
• Ensure quality standards and processes are utilized throughout production and constantly work with Quality Control and Assurance on continuous improvements and provide preventive and corrective actions when problems occur.
• Determine human resources and material resources required, and manage these resources to meet production targets.
• Direct the entire production operation towards complying with customers specifications on quality, quantity and delivery time and meeting company’s standard of efficiency.
• Work out and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for production operations and ensure that SOPs are adhered to.
• Prepare, maintain and analyze production reports to determine deviations and make necessary improvements where needed.
• Set and manage production budgets, and implement cost control programs to reduce production operating expenses.
• Ensure efficient collaboration and coordination between relevant departments including Supply Chain, Procurement, Distribution, Sales and Marketing and Management.
• Track competencies of subordinates and provide leadership, development, and training as required.
• Setting up directional guides for the effective and efficient conduct of internal business processes that produce and deliver the products to the markets;
• Initiating the establishment of systems and procedures and compliance review system that are based on policies and anchored on corporate values;
• Initiating the continuing rationalization, resource implementation and documentation of systems, procedures and structures.
• Developing corrective/ preventive measures to make systems and procedures more effective and efficient;
• Managing all production personnel to ensure that they are appropriately motivated, trained and developed, and can carry out their responsibilities to the required standards and statutory requirements;
• Facilitating the employment and directing the training, coaching, mentoring and development of personnel.

Requirements/Experience

• A graduate of Chemistry, Chemical or Industrial Engineering, Business Management or any related course.
• Master's Degree in Management, Engineering an advantage.
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in a relatively large organization and at least 1-year experience as a production manager in a manufacturing firm.
• With wide knowledge of the Quality Management, Quality Control, Process engineering, with a very high level of policies, processes and procedure development and documentation
• Able to express ideas clearly both in oral and written communications.
• Trustworthiness, resourcefulness and hard work
• With excellent organizational. analytical and problem-solving skills
• Computer literacy
• Problem Solving/Analytical
• Time Management
• Initiative