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Job Summary Summary: The “Production Manager” will be based in ……., reporting to …… Guides and coordinates activities of employees engaged in the following areas of a manufacturing department; multi-level assembly, electronic card/system testing and quality assurance to attain production goals consistent with cost, quality, and delivery requirements. Responsibilities:
• Guides department activities to hold up design of new products, modify existing designs, improve production techniques, and helps on test procedures. • Explores technology trends and market demand to plan projects. • Contributes with management, production, and marketing staff to resolve manufacturing feasibility, cost effectiveness, and customer demand for new and existing products. • Forecasts operating costs of department and directs preparation of budget requests. • Partners with team and management in the development of the strategic plan and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for the function. • Reviews and establishes material, equipment, and manpower resource requirements. • Prioritizes production schedules based on product introduction, equipment efficiency, and materials supply in order to meet customer requirements. • Coordinates production activities with other functional groups such as planning and distribution. • Selects and develops personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the production function. • Accountable for controlling manufacturing operation and ensuring that production quality and cost targets are met. • Working in extremely complex problems where the research of situations or data from an evaluation of intangible factors. • Reviews budgets and schedules required by management. • Regulate relations with the executives and/or major customers to maintain relationships with them. • Resolve controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading management levels for the achievements of the plant.
Qualifications:
• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in addition to 3 years of operations experience. • Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas; understands the strategic impact of the function across sites. • Demonstrates advanced people and/or process management skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills. • Demonstrates knowledge of multiple functional technologies/processes, industries or functions and understanding of interdependencies of such processes at the site. • To perform the major job responsibilities the use of the following tools may be required: Office Skills: telephones, word processing, spreadsheet (PC), presentation and database software.
Job Category Operations
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