Manufacturing Job at Michael Stevens Consulting

Job Description

• Assists company officers and senior staff members in the development and formulation of long and short-range planning, policies, programs and objectives.
• Develops the manufacturing plan and establishes procedures for maintaining high standards of manufacturing operations to ensure that products conform to established customer and company quality standards.
• Directs and monitors department managers to accomplish goals of the manufacturing plan, consistent with established manufacturing and safety procedures. Acts as liaison between department management/subordinate levels, as well as executive/department manager levels to inform personnel of communications, decisions, policies and all matters that affect their performance, attitudes and results
• Identifies, recommends and implements changes to improve productivity and reduce cost and scrap, monitor scrap and rework data. Directs the establishment, implementation and maintenance of production standards.
• Ensure engineering budgets are met and achieve optimum employee levels with least amount of overhead and raw material costs to meet annual budgetary plan.
• Initiates and coordinates major projects (e.g., plant layout changes, installation of capital equipment, major repairs, etc.)
• Ensure quality products, sequenced delivery and optimization of manufacturing facilities.

Job Requirements

• B.Sc in Engineering or a related technical course
• Minimum 10 -12 years production supervision experience within manufacturing operations OR 15 Years' experience within the area of core business competency.
• Proven work experience as an operations manager in the manufacturing or FMCG industry
• Requires overall knowledge and understanding of manufacturing, assembly, tooling, processing and financial systems.
• SAP experience preferred.

Key Competencies Required:

• Performance Management.
• Project Management
• Communication Proficiency
• Technical Capacity
• Problem solving/analysis