Production Unit Leader

JOB STATEMENT & ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Own the workshop operating budget and financial performance.
• Deliver business targets including revenue, product margin, profitability, absorption, and indirect cost performance.
• Monitor operational and financial KPIs and implement corrective actions.
• Lead initiatives that improve productivity, profitability, and cost competitiveness.
• Develop forecasts, capacity plans, and investment recommendations.
• Prepare monthly operational, financial, quality, and HSE reports.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities while maintaining safety and quality.

• Lead daily workshop operations to achieve production, delivery, quality, and financial objectives.
• Manage production schedules, capacity, labor, equipment, and subcontracting.
• Establish long-term operational strategies.
• Drive Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Optimize throughput, equipment utilization, logistics, and material flow.

• Promote a strong safety culture.
• Ensure compliance with HSE policies and regulations.
• Lead safety observations, investigations, and corrective actions.
• Maintain safe equipment and facilities.

• Maintain responsibility for workshop quality performance.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Reduce scrap, rework, and Cost of Poor Quality.
• Drive First-Time-Right performance.

• Champion Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen.
• Standardize best practices.
• Improve productivity through process optimization.

• Ensure effective ERP and production planning system utilization.
• Promote data accuracy and reporting.
• Support operational decisions through analytics.

• Lead, coach, and develop supervisors and employees.
• Conduct performance management and succession planning.
• Build an accountable, engaged, high-performing team.

• Partner with Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Quality.
• Maintain strong customer relationships.
• Support business development and procurement planning.

• Daily management of workshop operations.
• Production scheduling and workforce planning.
• Operational spending within authority limits.
• Continuous improvement implementation.

• Financial:
  Revenue, Product Margin, Profitability, Absorption, Indirect Cost.
• Operations: OTD, Productivity, Capacity Utilization, Throughput, Schedule Adherence.
• Quality: COPQ, Scrap, Rework, Customer Complaints, First-Time-Right.
• HSE: LTIR, Near Misses, Safety Observations, Compliance.
• People:
  Engagement, Training, Workforce Stability, Succession.

AUTHORITY & LEADERSHIP:

This position requires a high degree of decision-making authority working in conjunction with the Senior Manager, Global Workshop Operations andArea Management Team members and the leaders within assigned Business Line responsibilities.

Position hasdirect reports.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS –

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 5 years of manufacturing or industrial operations leadership experience.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of ERP systems, production planning, quality systems, and HSE.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills

COMPENTENICES:

• Strategic Leadership
• Operational Excellence
• Financial Acumen
• Lean Manufacturing
• Customer Focus
• Decision Making
• Talent Development
• Change Leadership
• Continuous Improvement
• Collaboration