Production Manager

4 days ago

Chilliwack, Canada Westeck Windows & Doors Full time

**Reports To**: VP of Manufacturing

**Responsible For**:

- Production Coordinators, Supervisors, and all production staff
- Production Administration staff

**Summary**:
The Production Manager position is someone who keeps a company functioning at the highest level of efficiency to minimize risk and maximize profit. Their primary duties are creating policies and procedures, scheduling, and acting as a team leader to ensure staff meet their potential and the team functions at peak efficiency.

**Success in this Role**
- Accident rate for the plant will be no more than 10 medical aids per year and a further 10% reduction per year after
- On time delivery from the plant to shipping will maintain at a 95% on time delivery.
- Lead time (order to delivery) will be maintained at 4-6 weeks lead time from production scheduled to delivery of product to shipping.
- Rework and remake will be no more than 10%.
- Material waste will be reviewed and corrective actions to better utilize product.
- Employee turnover for the plant will be maintained below 10% turnover.
- There will be a capable successor in place and effective back-up leaders in place throughout the plant, within two years of starting this role.

**Job Duties**:
**Production**
- Responsible for plant production, meeting customer requirements and maintaining the orderly and productive operation of planned activities.
- Set the target productivity levels and ensure they are achieved on a monthly basis.
- Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice manufacturing vison, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
- Help develop and input labor and material elements of manufacturing budgets. Hold responsibility for those aspects of the budget. Provide input to equipment and facility elements of the manufacturing budgets.
- Establish daily production schedule for the plant based on standard work and have systems in place to track performance against the standards.
- Ensure appropriate staffing levels for the plant, given projected production.

**Safety**
- Liaise with the Human Resources/Health and Safety department, in order to implement companywide procedures and training programs.
- Ensure that the plant operates in accordance with any health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of staff and visitors.

**People Development**
- Manage, coach and develop a high performing manufacturing team that meets agreed objectives, and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements.
- Under direction, set department objectives/KPIs. Provide regular, concrete and effective feedback on ongoing performance to direct reports.
- Manage and lead the team, ensuring adequate staffing levels, managing holiday allowances, training, development, appraisal, attendance, disciplinary issues and daily supervision to maximize efficient productivity.
- Ensure that effective and consistent training is delivered as required to support standard work and process improvements.

**Continuous Improvement**
- Establish and sustain practices that drive continuous improvement throughout the plant in a way that aligns with corporate business goals, with a focus on people and material use.
- Where possible, have those practices conform to corporate initiatives related to continuous improvement.

**New Product Introduction**
- Provide input as requested related to manufacturing/assembly issues for new product development. Under direction, prepare introduction plans for the start-up of production, including workstation layout, staffing, and work design to achieve quality, safety and environmental standards.
- Coordinate the accurate and on-time introduction of new products by working with the design, QA and engineering teams.

**Projects**
- Participate in cross functional projects as required.
- Identify appropriate individuals from within the plant to participate in project teams and ensure appropriate backfill.

**Other Matters**
- Attend various meetings and action/communicate instructions.
- Produce written reports and make presentations.
- Provide technical expertise to the team.
- Consistently promote high standards through personal example, and ensure that each leader in the plant understands the standards and behaviors expected of them
- Takes initiative to expand your own skills

**Experience/Education**:

- A minimum bachelor’s degree in business or engineering and/or 3-5 years’ experience in Operations Management.
- Solid knowledge of Human Resources practices and Health and Safety practices.
- A background in window manufacturing would be an asset.
- Have experience in developing and coaching leaders.
- Can identify deficiencies and find root causes and implement corrective actions.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft programs and the ability to develop KPI’s graphs.

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