Production Manager

Job Requirements

The Production Manager will own and manage a process flowline of producibility deliverables for Aero Engine Components to contractual Key Performance Indicators (KPI). The role offers opportunities for developing skills, knowledge and experience in this exciting industry. In this role, the person will work directly with internal and external stakeholders. The flow line lead is expected to own, manage and drive the Producibility Flowline, and supporting Quest Global and customer resource, to deliver against agreed KPIs.  This role also includes relationship building with specialist areas to understand bottlenecks, identify and deliver process improvements, drive LEAN behaviors to enable on-time delivery and increased value.

Work Experience

Vision, Focus and Direction

• Own and drive the Producibility flowline to Lean principles and define the vision for improved customer value.  Ensuring KPIs of asset Quality and Delivery are adhered to.
• Management of capacity bottleneck areas using pro-active planning and solutions to resolve actual and potential delivery concerns through short interval control.
• Work with specialist functions and external stakeholders to develop SLA turn-around-times for concession review and approval to deliver standard end to end process lead times. 
• Develop working relationships with specialist functions and external stakeholders to identify opportunities to embed a ‘pull system’ to improve output and customer value.
• Manage team of coordinators ensuring day-to-day delivery and team performance.
• Management of build critical priorities within the team without affecting flow - operate and demonstrate FIFO working arrangement.
• Own Flowline visual management performance measured by agreed KPI and reviewed with the customer on a regular basis.  
  Relationship building skills
• Build relationships with specialist areas within and outside Turbines to ensure the Flowline seamlessly delivers.  Ensure Producibility flowline lessons learned and best practices are rolled out and implemented during scaling.
• Identify improvement opportunities within the end-to-end process. Develop and own a visual management system which will drive continuous improvement.
• Focus and value are to be measured through KPIs and reviewed on a regular basis.  Deliver regular waste reduction initiatives such as over processing or repetition as well as cost reduction for each concession through waste elimination.

Strive for Improvement

• Identify improvement opportunities within the end-to-end process. Develop and own a visual management system, which will drive continuous improvement.

Customer Focus and Value

• Focus and value are to be measured through KPIs and reviewed on a regular basis.  Deliver regular waste reduction initiatives such as over processing or repetition as well as cost reduction for each concession through waste elimination.