Main Purpose Of Job Role
Responsible for leadership and management of production function – Porvair Advanced Machining and Production – Final assembly operations. Coordination, training, facilitation and execution of direct manufacturing operational activities and continuous improvement projects. To create a safety and learning culture through growth leadership and investment in employee development; driving a continuous improvement environment employing lean principles and methodology to drive elimination of hazards, waste and KPI improvement (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People). Define strategic investment opportunities for production, support business case preparation for board approval and coordination of capital expenditure and commission.
Main Duties And Responsibilities
Site Leadership Team (SLT) Responsibilities
* Support the SLT in providing leadership and vision to the whole business
* Provide monthly reports to the SLT, supporting company KPI and representing the site to Customers, Porvair Group and Porvair PLC
* Promote a safety-first culture, encourage value driven behaviours, maintain a vision of excellence and integrity
* Challenge the status quo, bring new ideas to the team and stimulate discussion
* Act as an ambassador of the Company and protect company IP in line with agreed policies
* Sustains and promotes adherence to quality policies, procedures and governance controls
Head Of Department Responsibilities
Leadership
* Ensure safe working practices and conditions exist within the production environment
* Develop and deploy a business operating system to drive accountability culture across division
* Employ short cycle review and escalation for accelerated response to deviations to meet or exceed performance targets
* Define strategic plan for investment across machining and processing operations, establishing improvement schedules and designs for space layout and infrastructure development
* Assess, define and deploy future state organisational design to support strategic growth and scaling of division
* Deploy robust employee development planning process as foundation for succession planning and management of resource talent and availability
* Prioritise resources to ensure that business goals are met
* Prepare team budgets and manage costs in line with these
* Active participation and promotion of daily Tiered Accountability for escalation and support
* Promote adoption of lean methodologies and CI culture across manufacturing teams to optimise operational performance and establish a kaizen culture
* Monitor and report key performance metrics to team and site leadership
* Provide day-to-day management of the team, including attendance and performance oversight
Safety and Environmental
* Ensure that all Health, Safety and Environmental policies and procedures are adhered to
* Maintenance and completion of process risk assessments
* Promote and drive visual factory, elevates operating standards and processes to highest levels of visual clarity
* Promote and support Layered Process Auditing (LPA) including implementation and maintenance of 5S
Quality
* Supports definition and deployment of strategic quality initiatives, strongly collaborates with Quality Manager
* Ensure Quality standards are achieved, costs minimised and within defined targets
* Promotes Material Review Board (MRB) process and functional contribution and engagement
* Embed RCCA methodology – promote A3 culture to drive rapid resolution of deviations
* Sustains and promotes adherence to quality policies, procedures and governance controls
* Support statutory, customer, regulatory and corporate reporting/audit requirements as necessary
* Support internal audit plan, conducting duties effectively and addressing non-conformity observations timely
Delivery
* Support enhanced Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process deployment working in close alliance with Master Production Scheduler to exceed performance targets
* Ensure adherence to MRP schedule, collaborating with MPS function to optimise delivery attainment
* Drive proactive actions to mitigate any risks to On-Time-Delivery (OTD)
* Support Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process to ensure manufacturing capability is aligned to forecasted business demand
* Escalate on roll throughput yield and capacity constraints, collaborate with peers to drive rapid and robust resolution and mitigate OTD risk
Cost
* Promote a continuous improvement and learning culture to deliver incremental improvement across labour efficiency, process improvement and cost reduction
* Implement advanced lean tools and methodology to optimise manufacturing performance
* Facilitate and conduct regular kaizen events to drive KPI and strategic advancement
* Manage direct production COS inputs within budget i.e. labour/material variance, recoveries, variable overhead
Other Duties
* Support and drive company initiatives to reinforce our Company Values
* Perform other tasks as required
Essential Qualifications
* Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
* Degree or equivalent in Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline
Desirable Qualifications
* Lean Six Sigma Black Belt / Expert
* Recognised H&S qualification e.g. IOSH, NEBOSH
Essential
Skills & Knowledge Required:
* Relevant experience leading high performing work teams in a precision manufacturing assembly environment
* Ability to motivate teams and lead change at all levels of the organization, influencing 360
* Competent with data management and analytics to drive and inform strategic and tactical decision
* Execution and application of tiered accountability for daily management operating system
* Lean manufacturing – experience and direct delivery of business operational transformation activities
* Experience leading and delivering CI events, training, coaching, mentoring (VSM / Kaizen)
* Experience using ERP systems (e.g. SYSPRO) and engineering data (cycle times, yields etc.)
* Performance management, learning and development
* Understanding and working knowledge of AS9100 requirements or alternatively IATF 16949 or ISO9001
* MS Office – 365, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
Desirable
* Management and/or technical leadership in high precision machine shop environment – expertise with CNC lathes, multi-axis machining centres and other advanced manufacturing equipment
* Experience leading and deploying operational CI strategy within a manufacturing environment
Experience Required
* 3-5 years’ relevant experience in production management and leadership
* 2-3 years’ experience within aerospace or similar high mix, low volume manufacturing environment