Company: Tradesmith Ltd

Job Position: Production/QC Manager

Job Description:

Production/ QC Manager

The purpose of the role is to ensure that the company’s factory is run in the most cost-effective and efficient manner. Ensuring optimum production level and the highest quality products, in order to retain and grow our customer base.

Key tasks:
• To fully absorb, champion and enact the “Why Tradesmith?” philosophy
• Increase production output
• Introduce robust quality control processes
• Agree production level scheduling with the office
• Attend daily production meeting
• Monitor and control production costs
• Continually review ways of improving the efficiency of the production line by maintaining (introducing?) “Lean” manufacturing processes
• Reduce waste and minimise factory errors
• Responsibility for continuous staff training and development, ensuring rotation of staff in order to create a genuinely multi-skilled team
• Set, monitor and review key performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Ensure compliance with all health, safety and wellbeing policies and procedures
• Regular liaison with the team leaders and department managers and attendance at monthly ad hoc management meetings
• Hold one-to-one meetings with the workforce to monitor their individual progress and needs
• To work and liaise with outside contractors such as machine engineers, ISP 9001 consultants and health & safety consultants
Skills & Experience
• Significant production line management experience
• OTIF
• Experience quality management
• Ability to identify and implement continuous improvements, in particular production flow
• Experience of utilising lean, six sigma, 5s methodologies
• Recent health & safety knowledge and experience
• Environmental management, including waste reduction
Review
This document provides an outline of the main responsibilities of the post. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties. Its content will be subject to regular review in conjunction with the postholder.

Only successful applicants will be notified.

Vacancy: Full time

Email address: mark@tradesmith.co.uk

Phone: 01323 849123

Vacancy time limit: N/A