Operations Manager

Our client is seeking an Operations Manager with strong staff management skills and production experience. You will be responsible for approximately 40 staff within a factory environment. You will be responsible for production, tool room, purchasing and ideally have worked in a manufacturing environment with assembly and moulding experience.

You will be an experienced Operations and Factory manager who will be responsible for ensuring that the highest quality standards are met and maintained and that the company’s manufacturing is always endeavouring to achieve world class pass. You will be responsible for controlling, monitoring and analysing the current system of production to check its effectiveness and working out a strategy for improving if necessary.

Job Functions To Include:
Coordination in a hands on manner of all engineering and production departments to manufacture products to performance and high quality standards, on schedule, at the lowest cost and in the shortest time

To oversee and have a deep technical understanding of the machine shop, mould shop, tool room, goods in /despatch, stores and assembly shop

Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement will be deployed across all manufacturing activities, liaising with the management and production teams

Analysis of production processes and employment of value engineering techniques to build product “right first time”

Evaluation and bench marking of department performances and presentation of production efficiency statistics at Production and Design Review Meetings

Recruitment and training of staff, appraisal of employee performance and responsibility for disciplinary issues

Liaise with sales, R&D and finance departments and report to the board

Specify and justify purchase of plant

Continuously search for ways to improve manufacturing

Overseeing inventory, distribution of goods and facility layout

Create centres of excellence for each cell

Support new projects in load for the smooth transition of work through the in load process and into steady state manufacture

Ensure OTIF measures are met

Hold daily cell board meetings

Ensure customer satisfaction and efficient achievement of sales revenues

PERSONAL PROFILE
You will be a hands on engineer with manufacturing experience and a natural problem solver
You will have health and safety experience and knowledge of MRP and ERP Systems: Sage 200 manufacturing also a distinct advantage
You will have extensive operations management and cost control experience
You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
You will be a strong leader with time management, delegation and prioritisation skills
You will have a natural creative flair and be full of ideas to introduce new concepts and innovations