Production Manager - Night Shift

• Oversee Safety, Quality, and Production for the area; provide leadership and supervision, and manage the human resources for the department

• Coordinate your shift to ensure area is meeting production, quality and safety target

• Ensure safety policies and operating practices are implemented, identify deficiencies and take corrective action as necessary

• Respond to safety incidents quickly and with appropriate corrective actions

• Proactively look for lean and continuous improvement opportunities

• Problem solve process, quality, and production improvements

• Ensure communication among the shifts is seamless and standardized including a set of weekly / bi-weekly toolbox meetings for each shift including safety topics, corporate messages, and procedural updates, etc.

• Develop detailed plans for managing and communicating process changes

• Develop business cases for capital & operational expenditures for departmental projects

• Execution of the weekly Production Plan, including labour load leveling, overtime management and variance tracking

• Weekly production and quality variance analysis, and improvement recommendations

• Provide direct cost oversight (e.g. labour utilization, overtime, consumables and material overages)

• Review all warranty reports, CAR’s and NCR’s generated against the department area and delegate investigations to Team Leaders as necessary. Initiate department CARs where appropriate and participate/lead in development and implementation of corrective actions

• Develop technician career progression and training plans within the department

• Ensure assignment and completion of scheduled daily and preventative maintenance responsibilities

• Conduct regular 5S, process, Contamination Control and quality audits

• Perform Performance Management and Progressive discipline as required