- Developing and implementing innovative strategies to streamline factory operations.
Screening, recruiting and training new factory workers.
- Collaborating with quality control managers to establish and execute quality control processes.
- Ensuring that factory machinery is in good working order by machine maintenance program.
- Maintains and assures all health and safety procedures are followed.
- Analyzing production data to identify and resolve any production issues and devising improvement strategies.
- Preparing production reports and submitting them to key decision-makers.
- Regularly inspecting finished products to determine whether they meet established quality standards.
- Motivating factory workers to continually achieve factory targets.
- Plan, organize, coordinate, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations.
- Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
- Be responsible for production output, product quality and on-time shipping.
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
- Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime.
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics, and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
Influence and learn from below.
- Stay up to date with the latest production management best practices and concepts.
- Adequate knowledge of cost accounting and cost of goods manufactured.
Requirements
- Master's degree (at minimum) in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Operational Management, Logistics, or related field.
- Proven experience in a managerial or supervisory role within a factory.
- Adequate knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation, and human resources)
- Certification in Production and Inventory Management as well as Quality Control.
Sound knowledge of industry-specific factory equipment.
- Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications.
The ability to multitask.
- Outstanding time management skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong team building, decision making, and people management skills.
- Effective communication skills.