Operations Manager/Production

Job Description:

• Select and develop the right people by understanding team dynamics and developing a strong working team; create a balance of diverse skills and personalities to create effective, innovative and proactive teams with a high morale.
• Manage and coordinate subordinates by communicating job expectations; planning and assigning jobs; monitoring production and observing and appraising progress and improvement.
• Completes production by sufficient planning; scheduling and assigning staff to accomplish work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; forecasting problems, resolving problems; ensuring productions targets are met and reporting results to the Managing Director.
• Liaise and communicate production with other production and project managers.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Maintain quality by monitoring production; enforcing quality standards, measuring and maintaining quality standards; reducing scrap and re-work and enforcing organization quality standards.
• Determine and manage all resources required for production are available, ensure all equipment is ready and in good working order, calling for repairs for faulty equipment; and keeping up to date with new equipment and techniques.
• Uphold company values, vision, policies, processes, procedures and systems; discipline, coach and counsel employees appropriately.
• Maintains staff by mentoring and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities and ensuring skilled staff within the department
• Accepts and embraces change, innovative and receptive to new ideas; encourages others to accept, be receptive and deal with change; initiates change when necessary; solves problems and provides solutions.
• Maintains a safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established health and safety legislation policies and procedures and emphasizing good housekeeping practices within the department.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge current by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; bench-marking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies and improves supervisory skills through internal and external training programs.