Production Manager

Production Lead

Location : Leipzig area, Germany

For EU roles, candidates must be eligible to work and live in the European Union. Proof of eligibility will be required with your application.

Job ref : AZ / 60623

As the Production Lead, you will be responsible for the company’s specialized Compounding and Plastic Tolling manufacturing facility, consisting of state of the art machinery.

The business forms part of a larger network for a leading service provider within the plastics and rubber industry.

Applications are welcomed for candidates from within the manufacturing sector, who can demonstrate their experience in effective and successful management of all work, productivity, quality control and safety processes defined for the production departments.

Responsible for improving operations, systems and principles in the areas of information flow and management, business processes and seeking opportunities to expand and improve systems in the production department.

Performing supervisory duties in accordance with company guidelines and applicable laws.

Management and development of employees Production

Main Tasks

Strategic selection and planning of employees Production

Manage, motivate, assess, and strategically develop subordinate employees.

Carry out coordinated individual personnel measures in the area.

Maintaining a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with legal requirements

Maintaining a safe, injury-free and accident-free workplace

Work closely with the safety department to ensure that all processes comply with operational, legal and other regulatory requirements

Acts as contact person when customer problems arise in connection with product quality (support of the QMB)

Communicating customer issues with the operations team and developing ways to improve the customer experience, including resolving issues and complaints (supporting the QMB)

Contributing to recommendations for strategic improvements and creating and completing the resulting action plans

Implement production, productivity, quality and customer service standards; solve problems; identify trends to optimize productivity and costs

Create forecast requirements / annual budget in cooperation with management / Group; plan resulting expenses; analyze variances;

initiate corrective measures

Develop operations by determining product handling and storage requirements, developing, implementing, enforcing and evaluating policies and procedures;

developing processes for internal delivery of raw materials and production of products, utilization of machinery, inventory management and shipping, in close collaboration with other operational areas

Analyzing the process workflow, employee and space requirements as well as the system layout; implementing changes

• Continuous updating of professional knowledge by attending training courses, seminars and trade fairs. Reading specialist publications;
• maintaining personal networks;

Budget responsibility for the areas of production, including compliance, planning and monitoring of expenditure

Work closely with the MD and management team to establish and / or implement policies, procedures and systems and continue implementation.

Communicate all operational policies and / or issues at department meetings

Work closely with the team to conduct inventory analysis to ensure inventory is being used effectively, the right equipment is being sourced and inventory data is robustly maintained to minimize external storage costs

Responsible for the mass balance of raw materials and finished products

Superiority and Subordination, authority to issue instructions, representation

Subordinate to the management in technical and disciplinary terms

Technical and disciplinary authority to issue instructions to employees in all productive processes and work processes (production, mixing)

Documents and Information

Various documents as well as process and work instructions

Working and Operating Materials

Machines and systems on site, computers with standard and special software

Required knowledge and skills

Technical degree, at least 5 years of specialist professional experience in project and / or production management.

German Fluency and business fluent English required.

For reasons of better legibility, the simultaneous use of the language forms male, female and diverse (f / m / d) is avoided.

All personal designations apply equally to all genders.

For EU roles, candidates must be eligible to work and live in the European Union. Proof of eligibility will be required with your application.

To apply please contact

Andy Zanin

[email protected]

0044 (0) 1789 207070