Production Manager

Overview

Job Code: 338/001/232

Industry: Steel Fabrication

Department: Production / Manufacturing

Reporting To: Operations Manager

Job Brief:
The Production Manager is responsible for planning, executing, monitoring, and continuously improving manufacturing operations for pressure vessels, skids, and fabricated products
. The role ensures compliance with ASME standards, client specifications
, delivery commitments, cost targets, and organizational goals. It emphasizes production efficiency, manpower optimization, safety, quality, and on-time delivery
, while driving continuous improvement through data-driven decision-making and disciplined shop-floor management.

• Pressure Vessels (ASME U / U2 / ADNOC compliant)
• Process Skids & Modular Packages
• Structural & Heavy Fabrication
• Multi-project, multi-bay manufacturing environment
• Direct management of shop-floor teams (fabrication, welding, fit-up, blasting & painting, assembly)

• A. Production Planning & Execution
  • Execute production activities according to approved project schedules, shop drawings, and Material Take-Offs (MTOs).
  • Coordinate with Planning, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, and Projects departments to ensure uninterrupted production flow.
  • Ensure daily, weekly, and monthly production targets are achieved without compromising safety or quality.
  • Validate work sequences for pressure vessels and skids, including rolling, fit-up, welding, PWHT coordination, NDT, hydrotest, blasting, painting, and dispatch.
• B. Production Efficiency & Man-Hour Control
  • Maintain man-hour reporting project-wise and group-wise.
  • Track actual vs planned man-hours and initiate corrective actions for variances.
  • Document and approve manpower transfers between groups.
  • Drive productivity improvement initiatives to reduce rework, idle time, and bottlenecks.
  • Ensure production overrun is controlled within acceptable limits; overruns beyond defined thresholds trigger root cause analysis and action plans.
• C. Manpower Management & Leadership
  • Lead and manage supervisors, foremen, and production teams.
  • Allocate manpower efficiently based on project priorities and skill requirements.
  • Conduct regular toolbox talks, daily coordination meetings, and weekly performance reviews.
  • Support training, mentoring, and skill development of welders, fitters, and supervisors.
  • Promote a culture of ownership, discipline, accountability, and teamwork.
• D. Quality & Compliance
  • Ensure all production activities comply with approved drawings, WPS/PQR requirements, ITPs, Quality Plans, client specifications, statutory regulations, and ASME/ISO codes.
  • Coordinate closely with QA/QC for inspections, NDT, hold points, and documentation readiness.
  • Minimize rework through right-first-time execution and strict adherence to procedures.
• E. Safety, Health & Environment (HSE)
  • Ensure strict compliance with company HSE policies and site safety rules.
  • Enforce safe work practices during lifting, welding, confined space work, hot work, and heavy fabrication.
  • Participate in incident investigations and implement corrective/preventive actions.
  • Support sustainability and environmental objectives.
• F. Coordination & Communication
  • Conduct daily production review meetings and weekly coordination meetings with Planning and Projects.
  • Provide clear and timely production status updates to management.
  • Highlight risks related to schedule, manpower, material availability, or equipment at an early stage.
  • Support client visits, audits, and inspections.
• G. Continuous Improvement & Digitalization
  • Use historical production data to improve planning accuracy and execution efficiency.
  • Support implementation of production dashboards, man-hour tracking systems, and performance KPIs.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, process improvement, and layout optimization.
  • Lead or participate in Lean / Kaizen initiatives.

• Delivery & Planning: On-time completion of production milestones, schedule adherence.
• Productivity & Cost: Planned vs actual man-hour variance, production efficiency improvement, rework percentage, overtime control.
• Quality: First-time-right acceptance rate, NCRs from production, and client inspection pass rate.
• Safety: LTIFR,…