Senior Production Manager

Scope of Job: Oversees and directs operations of production areas to ensure that volume, cost, waste, and quality standards are achieved. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop overall production schedules, materials, and resource requirements to meet production goals. Monitors shift production metrics to identify and resolve issues and develop process improvements. Plans and directs maintenance, turnarounds, and downtime for efficiency and speed.

Establishes staff training processes, equipment, gear, and tool requirements to comply with health and safety regulations. Coaches supervisors in best practices to provide a safe and efficient work environment and resolve production problems. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments.

• Lead the factory production and production support teams (direct line, including direct labour, indirect labour, and temporary employees) for daily execution of the production plan to maximise output and minimize cost.
• Ensure that the factory plays an integral role in maintaining supply (working with the supply chain team) to timely produce inventory at the right quality and lowest cost to meet customer/sales needs.
• Provide robust management and people leadership across the factory, including both those with direct line factory responsibilities and those without.
• Provide quality stewardship of our products, assets, and their quality attributes with efficient delivery to ensure customer satisfaction. Collaborate with Commercial and Technical/R&D functions to ensure product quality and service.
• Assist Plant Manager in effective Supply management evaluation and business inputs on staffing, cost, capacity, assets, and the supply chain execution to ensure a feasible “Voice of Supply” is reflected.
• Lead the Operations employees by coaching, mentoring, and training/development to ensure the deliverables of manufacturing are met.
• Ensure engaging morale-building programs and robust communications to team members about the business and site performance.
• Provide direct leadership for the factory operating system, safety, discreet production scheduling, materials ordering and expediting, local raw and FGS inventory management, shipping/receiving, and application/usage of business systems. Provide indirect support for QA/QC audits/inspections, finance cost controls, HR, business planning process inputs and local IT.
• Be a member of the Site Operations Leadership Team / the plant managers direct staff member.
• Identify and evaluate financial labour and efficiency opportunities and recommend solutions that will drive overall cost reductions and labour management to continuously improve the factory P&L by direct leadership and support of the Value Stream Production and the Production Support Managers.
• Drive timelines for efficiency improvement, manages site projects and other initiatives for the plant and share/establish best practices across site for CI.
• Maintains factory staffing within cost/financial targets, standards and tracking for produced goods (waste/NQC, inventory and cash delivery, operational costs/tonne, etc.)
• Maintains factory KPI’s and cost roadmaps, including routine, periodic metric dashboards. Provide improvements to MES information systems to drive executional performance.
• Support and partner with local factory technical support managers/engineers as part of the leadership team in support of production goals. Ensure asset maintenance for both current business and integration of new capital/capacity investments. Being a steward for all site assets (infrastructure and equipment).
• A partner in maintaining site safety employee and product controls and traffic systems to ensure both people and product safety, including site security and overall capability of the site.
• Maintain the daily factory operating systems, shift turnover meetings, stand-up meetings, and relevant communications to employees.
• Delivery of factory cost per…