Production managers will be responsible for the technical management, supervision, and control of manufacturing processes in production.
Must be able to
- Develop, evaluate, and improve current manufacturing processes.
- Working together with department managers/supervisors, to ensure products are manufactured to a certain quality standard.
- Assessing project and resource requirements
- Overseeing production processes
- Re-negotiating timescales or schedules as necessary
- Selecting, ordering and purchasing materials
- Organising the repair and routine maintenance of production equipment
- Handle logistics, warehousing and stock of raw materials used in production.
- Manage all teams within your production department.
- Create and implement organisational/production changes on an operative level.
- Focus on growing business and revenue by implementing necessary changes to product/production line to enter new markets or grow existing territories.
- Excellent communication, numeracy, and computer literacy skills. (Full Microsoft suite)
- Good people management skills and management of staff.
- Identifying problems and implement preventative strategies to minimise risk.
- Being able to develop good working relationships and trust with various teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills, analytic ability and be very detail oriented.
- Working well with many different departments and external suppliers.
- Always keeping the end-user/customer in mind.
- Being results and deadline driven.