Date Posted: 2024-05-17
Country: United Kingdom
Location: HS Marston Aerospace Limited, Wobaston Road, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, WV10 6QJ
Position Title: Production Manager
Division: Collins Aerospace
Business Area: Power and Controls
Department: Operations
Reporting To: Operations Manager
Location: Wolverhampton
Grade: M3
Role & Purpose of the Position:
The Production Manager is responsible for managing a team of intermediate or experienced professionals in Manufacturing Operations. Establishes objectives and guidelines for managing and monitoring cell performance and productivity. Promotes an environment that challenges the existing process and strives for excellence through continuous improvement and flexibility.
Accountable for delivering Safety (S), Quality (Q), Delivery (D), Cost (C), Lean (L), and People (P) targets across the department, introducing new products and processes and unleashing the department's potential.
Responsibilities:
* Responsible for the day-to-day production and delivery process across the department, ensuring key business deliverables are met and exceeded, including OTD, productivity, sales, inventory controls & budget adherence.
* Install and support the ‘Tier’ process into the Wolverhampton Site (Tier 1, 2, and 3) using SQDCP principles.
* Direct cost reduction and process improvements to ensure efficiency of operations and cost effectiveness.
* Direct scheduling to meet production standards.
* Execute the sequencing of work, such as build and delivery to optimise productivity.
* Direct innovation to enhance the cell's production capabilities.
* Support the interfaces with customers to understand customer needs and issues to ensure the customer receives satisfactory standards of service.
* People Leadership - Communication, driving the right culture and acting as an escalation point for any people issues. Talent mapping and career development.
* Support in generating future state capacity plans for capital expenditure modelling.
* Ensure capacity and capability processes are implemented to meet agreed customer requirements and act as sponsor for associated capital expenditure.
* Manage the departmental budgets and meet cost and budget targets, proactively identifying savings and driving associated initiatives through to a successful conclusion.
* Efficiently introduce new products to the production line, ensuring associated manufacturing, process and quality controls are in place from the outset.
* Ensure that products are produced using approved parts and processes and that quality/yield issues are proactively managed to reduce the associated cost of poor quality.
* Strong people management skills, with the ability to deliver results by empowering your team; must be comfortable with providing performance-related feedback and challenging, mentoring and coaching individuals.
* Lead the operations & manufacturing engineering team to achieve outstanding delivery quality, productivity performance and a clear path to embed manufacturing best practices.
* Manage operational budgets to promote profitability and ensure the Company has all the resources required to meet its objectives within agreed financial parameters.
* Support & lead the development of a continuous improvement culture through CORE, developing and owning the site Operations transformation plan (5yr).
* Mentor, coach and develop the capabilities of the leaders in your team to develop a strong Operations Management team.
* Manage the payroll/overtime for the department(s).
* Drive productivity using Lean tools such as 5S, standardization, visual management.
* Lead and implement a multi-skilled workforce to be agile and meet customer needs i.e. planning, organising, developing, coaching, training, engagement.
* Lead, set standards, guide and coach in line with the Collins Aerospace core values.
* Drive root cause analysis using the CAPA system for faults both internal and external customers.
* Maintain and develop customer relationships and provide exceptional customer service.
* Lead Quality and associated Quality Management Systems (QMS).
* Perform Appraisal review(s) with the Operations team/direct reports.
* Take Responsibility - Willingness to show initiative and a readiness to own decisions and their outcomes.
* Accountable for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People (SQDCP) reviews.
Qualifications / Experience:
* Degree qualification in Mechanical / Aerospace Engineering.
* Chartered / Incorporated Engineer.
* Time served apprentice.
* Track record of delivering a world-class operation.
* Proven track record with a successful portfolio of achievements.
* Competent in Operations, Engineering, EHS, Quality and HR class leading practices.
* Confident and professional personality, experienced with direct customer interface.
RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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