Engineering and Manufacturing Production Manager

Location: Omagh

Reporting to: Operations Director

Working as a key member of the Operations Management team, you will be responsible for a manufacturing engineering department that strives for operational excellence using best practice lean methods. You will lead a team of manufacturing engineers responsible for continuous improvement projects and events, developing and improving processes, procedures, and activities throughout Operations to ensure we meet all our KPIs across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Morale.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage, lead, train, and develop a team that includes lead Manufacturing engineers, senior manufacturing engineers, and manufacturing engineers by setting SMART objectives in line with company priorities.
• Responsibility for Manufacturing attribute ownership for existing & new models within ERP SYSTEM (Oracle TMS) ensuring accuracy and efficiency of material flow to production including kanban.
• Oversee New Product & Process Development, Design For Manufacture reviews, establishing processes and Production Launches.
• Ensure standard work, jigs, and fixtures are available for the production team to ensure safe, high quality, and repeatable manufacturing techniques for existing product and NPPD projects.
• Promote Lean manufacturing tools within the business, focusing on elimination of waste (Muda), 5S & Visual Management, Kaizen, Level Production (Takt), Material and Assembly Flow, Pull Systems, Inventory Control, Plan for every Part, Just in Time, Jidoka, Kanban, Standardised work.
• Manufacturing Spend Savings, Rework reduction, Labour, Warranty, Waste Disposal spend as well as Purchased Price savings where relevant.
• Work as part of the HSE Steering team in promotion of safe working practices in accordance with Health & Safety legislation and factory regulations, leading investigations, improvements, and problem-solving activities where appropriate in line with our Zero Harm vision.
• Assist with meeting all KPIs across the Big Five: Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Morale, with an added responsibility for morale, developing and implementing Reward and Recognition initiatives.
• Work with Operations team to ensure best practice setting up and refining assembly flow lines to improve efficiencies, increase capacity, and meet demand requirements.
• By using a hands-on gemba approach, proactively utilise both lean principles and problem-solving tools and techniques to identify takt time variation and build quality issues with the Operators, and train all staff to eradicate any such variation and their root causes.
• This will involve cross contact with all other Operational departments such as Production, Purchasing, Production Control, Stores, Quality, Facilities, Health & Safety, Manufacturing Engineering as well as other functions such as Design Engineering, Customer Support, and any other as required.
• Assist with the continued implementation and development of Visual Management across all Omagh sites, supporting Production and other Operational teams to ensure adherence to MP Visual Management Road Map.
• Ensure compliance to all general site Rules, Regulations, and Policies.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent communication, planning, and organisational skills are all essential, as well as the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Excellent IT Skills, specifically with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) with good understanding of CAD.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Excellent English communication skills, written and spoken.

We are committed to helping team members reach their full potential. We offer competitive rates of pay, Team Member bonus, Westfield healthcare, 32 holidays, pension, life assurance, LinkedIn Learning, on-site free parking, and Perks discount card.

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