Manufacturing Manager

Salary: £60,000 – £84,000 per year

Overall Purpose

The Manufacturing Engineering Manager will, in conjunction with other functional leaders, identify process improvement opportunities and new product process requirements and then facilitate change in line with company strategic objectives. Drive transformational change across the factory through implementation of new technologies (including automation), plant, equipment, and lean working methods. Coordinate the development and roll out of the lean manufacturing program across the business and ensure improvement objectives, goals, measures, and metrics are established for each improvement project.

Main Responsibilities (key tasks)

• To improve the operational efficiency of the business, the key tasks being to:
• Act as a facilitator between the MEG, Production, R&D, Technical and other business departments, to ensure identification, alignment, and prioritisation of projects.
• Communicate the plans across the business.
• Manage the MEG; coaching, motivating, developing, and supporting the team.
• Train, coach & mentor all relevant departments in the deployment of improvement projects and improvement models such as Kaizen, Lean etc.
• Co-ordinate Lean and improvement projects across the business to ensure successful and sustainable results.
• Collaborate between Technical, Production, Engineering and R&D departments to enable new and existing product/processes to be implemented successfully.
• Constantly review the latest technologies, through attendance of technology shows and business seminars etc. to identify solutions that could improve operational efficiency.
• Set departmental performance objectives for direct reports.

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified and/or qualified through experience (5+ years managerial) with proven experience of managing a manufacturing environment and lean processes.

Skills & Knowledge

• Analytical skills, need to be able to identify areas of low efficiency and work to provide improvements
• Lean Manufacturing skills, must be able to identify and eliminate waste within the system
• Preferably trained to black belt status in Six Sigma, Lean, Statistical Process Control, etc
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with staff, at all levels, and third parties.
• Confident with strong decision-making and negotiation skills.
• Ability to demonstrate innovation and creativity
• Technical skills, must be able to work with different technology to provide a solution that produces the required result in the most efficient way possible
• Commercial awareness, must keep the “bigger picture” in mind at all times when considering each step of the manufacturing process
• Problem Solving Skills, ability to take a concept of a process and establish the equipment needed to make it happen
• Organisational abilities, should be able to prioritise tasks, set schedules and work between different projects to achieve overall business goals
• Good working knowledge of Health and Safety legislation

Education and Experience

• Previous experience in the Automotive sector or other manufacturing sector with high level of automation (desirable)
• Proven track record of introduction of new plant and processes into a manufacturing environment and demonstrating operational success.
• High level of mastery in Total Productive Maintenance, Change Management and Organizational Effectiveness.
• Team and Operations leadership experience required
• Proven ability to engage the shop floor employees and encourage them to adopt new approaches.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work on several tasks or projects concurrently
• Commercial acumen with strong HSE awareness.

Remuneration

On offer is a salary of £60,000 – £84,000DOE with additional benefits