Production Manager; Light Forge & Steelstock

Position: Production Manager (Light Forge & Steel stock)
Location: Halesowen

Production Manager - Light Forge & Steel Stock

Basic salary £40-45k basic depending upon knowledge & experience.

A fantastic opportunity to join a well established forging and engineering business based in Halesowen, West Midlands.

Hours:

Monday to Friday 7.30 am to 4 pm.

PURPOSE OF

THE ROLE:

* To ensure quality engineering of components throughout the Light Forge and Steel stock.

* Be responsible for the day-to-day activities of all work through the Light Forge and Steel stock.

* Ensure health and safety within the workplace.

MAIN

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Oversee day to day running of all forging, heat treatment and sawing within the business unit

Adhere to and encourage health and safety methods and procedures

Drive continuous improvement through Die plant and Steel Stock targeting an improvement in quality, productivity and communication with shop floor and between departments

Champion a training program across both areas to sustain and grow key skills including updating of training logs and matrices

Ensure that housekeeping reaches and is maintained at a high level.

Manage overtime effectively

Manage, support and mentor department managers and supervisors

Responsible for recruitment, annual PDRs and operator development

Responsible for the disciplinary process in the Forging, Heat Treatment, Die Plant and Steel stock areas

Responsible for ensuring adequate tooling, consumables and PPE are available when needed

Responsible for working to the production plan

Responsible for expediting jobs within the departments to meet the weekly sales plan.

Responsible for ensuring shifts and manning is planned to optimise output and managing overtime when necessary

Performing root cause analysis where necessary and in an agreed timeframe.

Responsible for NCR’s planned actions and closing out NCRs in an agreed timeframe.

Responsible for managing holidays and absences by ensuring cover is always available

Responsible for monitoring accuracy of ERP - INFOR system bookings

Feeding back on incorrect or inefficient routing of jobs.

Responsible for departmental throughput and reporting on any expected delays to daily/weekly/monthly production commitments

Responsible for communication at all levels within the Departments. i.e. daily/weekly briefings Team leaders/operators and updating of communication boards

Responsible for investigating excessive inefficiencies and overruns

Responsible for reporting Maintenance issues on plant & equipment

Reporting accidents with necessary supporting documentation i.e. witness statements and photos

Investigating cause and removing or reporting of defective equipment

Responsible for updating existing and writing new Risk Assessments

Carry out other duties, when necessary, such as:

* Production meetings

* Maintenance meetings

* Capital expenditure projects

PRINCIPAL

ACCOUNTABILITIES :

* 95% + Right First Time from forging and heat treatment

* 95% + On Time in Full

* Energy savings

* Recovery targets in parallel with Standard vs Actual hours variances