The idea candidate will oversee safe and proper manufacturing of the company's products. In order to do this, the candidate will troubleshoot issues, ensure the efficient day to day operations of the company, and coordinating a team of production employees to make sure that consistent and quality goods are constantly being produced. 

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervise Employees & workers

• Manage employees daily activities to insure production efficiencies
• Manage employees hours to insure minimal overtime
• Conduct regular performance feedback to employees & senior management
• Conduct annual performance reviews
• Place employees on verbal and written counseling as needed
• After consulting with Human Resources and Head of Operations, function as a mediator between employees as    needed
• Recommend merit or market adjustments and/or promotions to the Head of Operations
• Train employees in fundamentals of production as well as cross train the staff in all facets of production
• Conduct interviews on potential candidates
• Inform human resources and Head of Operations of all employee resignations and terminations
• Assign tasks & projects to Group Leads

Work Experience Requirements :

PRODUCT SELECTION AND DESIGN

Techniques like value analysis may be employed in creating alternative designs which are free from unnecessary features and which can meet the intended functions at the lowest cost

PROCESS SELECTION ANDPLANNING :

Process planning involves detailing of processes of resource conversion required and their sequences.

FACILITIES LOCATION

Resulting in frequent disturbances in production, sub-standard quality and competitive disadvantage.

CAPACITY PLANNING:

Capacity planning decisions concern expansion/ contraction of major facilities required in the conversion process, economies of multiple shift operations, development of vendors for major components, etc.

Short-term capacity planning decisions concern issues like working of over-time, sub-contracting, shift adjustment, etc. Break-even analysis is valuable tool for capacity planning

PRODUCTION PLANNING :

Facilitates the supply of goods at the appropriate time to execute orders received by the company. It also helps control over the production process. The function of production planning involves the decision when, what, how and why to produce goods. To overcome such problems, guiding plans are prepared before production is commenced.

 Production manager can forecasts the sales or demand for the products of the company and makes necessary arrangements to meet that demand at the appropriate time. Thus, he tries to maintain a balance between demand and supply.

PRODUCTION CONTROL :

control the production by taking kin steps to utilize the various factors of production in an efficient manner so that the goods are produced at the lowest cost and according to the requirements and satisfaction of the customers and are supplied to them on the scheduled date of delivery in the ordered quantity. This function calls for scheduling of the required work, providing necessary instructions to manufacturing departments and checking the production progress, etc.

QUALITY CONTROL

Steps should be taken to produce as per specifications and to minimize the amount of defective work

METHOD ANALYSIS

Method analysis improves the productivity of the concern and minimizes the cost of production.

INVENTORY CONTROL

This involves the physical and financial control of materials. Thus, he/she has to arrange for the procurement of raw materials

PLANT LAYOUT AND MATERIAL HANDLING

Plant layout pertains to the arrangement of machines and equipment in such a manner so as to maintain the smooth flow of production without any interruption.

The production manager must ensure that efficient material handling system and plant layout handling are designed and developed.

WORK MEASUREMENT

Production manager can control and reduce the labor cost per unit. At different levels of production, the labor cost per unit differs. Here, application of work measurement is necessary.

By applying work-measurement techniques, the performance of workmen must be improved through positive or negative incentives. Time and motion studies are work-measurement techniques

MAINTENANCE AND REPLACEMENT

• Maintenance and replacement involve selection of optimal maintenance (preventive and/or breakdown) policy to ensure higher equipment availability at minimum maintenance and repair cost.
• Preventive maintenance which includes preventive inspection, planned lubrication, periodic cleaning and upkeep, replacement of parts, condition-monitoring of the equipment, etc., for maintaining critical machines.
• Replacement decisions concerning machines are basically financial investment decisions but have a major effect on the efficiency of production system.
• Other types of replacement decisions concern parts of machines and the most common problem will be to decide between individual replacement and group replacement.

COST REDUCTION AND COST CONTROL

Effective production management must ensure minimum cost of production and in this context cost reduction control acquires significant importance

OTHER FUNCTIONS (ONLY RELATED TO PRODUCTION)

Apart from the above, the production manager has to perform certain other functions pertaining to engineering economics, stores and warehousing management, maximizing the labor efficiency, standardization and storage, price analysis, wage incentives to workers, Purchase etc.

DECISION MAKING/PROBLEMS SOLVING:

Ø Describe the key decisions and/or recommendations you make performing your job.

Ø Responsible for input on production employees’ performance and behavior; as well as methods in increasing

Ø Productivity of the staff. Constantly define methods to improve the flow of production in a cost effective manner.

Ø Specify the impact your position has on departmental objectives and/or organizational goals.

• Ø Responsible for maximizing production personnel capabilities and implement procedures to improve     efficiency to assist the company in meeting and exceeding profitability goals.

Qualifications

• Diploma or Degree in Mechanical engineering
• Proficient in Excel 10+ year supervisory experience
• Act independently
• Strong communication skills