Production Manager

**Kraken Robotics | Underwater. Understood.**

**NEW CAREER OPPORTUNITY**
- Build your career with Kraken Robotics. Make a difference to others. If innovation drives you, and you want a career that makes a difference to the world, helping humanity overcome the challenges in our oceans - safely, efficiently, and sustainably -** then come join us at Kraken Robotics.**

**Kraken Robotics**is currently recruiting for a** Production Manager**to join our** Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.**

Full-Time - Permanent | Job Reference: KRSI-2025-05

**ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Safety, Environmental**:

- Lead and manage all health and safety aspects for your area and team ensuring a safe work environment
- Comply with Health & Safety and Environmental Policies, maintaining compliance with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards
- Support JH&S meetings and initiatives
- Manage and support job risk Assessments within area of responsibility.
- Carry out accident investigation activities, ensure near miss reporting.
- Ensure teams comply with the Lock out Tag out Procedure (where applicable), and adhere to all PPE requirements
- Lead 3R5S (cleanliness) processes and procedures within your area of responsibility.

**Quality**:

- Manage internal quality within area of responsibility
- Identify and Manage quality improvements through KPI's, leading continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure standardized work procedures are in place for all work assignments
- Ensure adequate process audits are in place to sustain and improve quality

**Throughput**:

- Ensure the daily production plan and target is met
- Analyze and Understand losses and coordinate activities to improve performance
- Manage and support resources to ensure all production needs are met
- Ensure shift handovers and shift reports are completed at the start and end of each shift.

**Cost**:

- Operate within budget for area of responsibility.
- Manage headcount, allocation and overtime for your department
- Conceptualize, lead and champion continuous improvement projects to improve departmental KPI’s
- Reduce waste within the production areas.

**Motivation**:

- Foster a culture supporting Kraken’s mission, vision and values.
- Create a safe environment for issues / mistakes to be identified and communicated to ensure the product and customer are always protected.
- Promote a coaching culture, monitoring / mentoring and developing the team to exceed departmental goals.
- Support hiring, training and development plans
- Ensure department training requirements are fulfilled, growing our team’s skill set
- Complete annual appraisals and give regular positive and constructive feedback as required.

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field. (Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering preferred).
- Excellent organization, written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with various levels of employees within all areas of the plant internally from team members to Senior Leadership as required
- Ability to build effective business relationships with plant leadership and downstream customers
- Ability to handle and lead multiple projects simultaneously
- Goal oriented self-starter with ability to lead teams
- Ability to coach/mentor/develop team members
- Must have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Must be able to work in low humidity environments from 1% - 35%
- Must be able to wear clean room PPE: coveralls, latex/nitrile gloves, surgical mask, hair/beard net, coveralls, bump cap

**PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS**
- 5 or more years’ experience managing direct reports and production teams in a high-volume manufacturing environment
- Technical underwater power-related manufacturing experience supporting the operations across various levels and functions
- Advanced problem-solving credentials, e.g. Green/Black belt in Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
- Experience with PFMEA, Control Plans & Reaction Plans
- Proficient with Windows, Microsoft including Excel and Power point