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Manufacturing Director

by Dave Cumming on 19th May 2010

• Accountable for significant improvement through direct managerial (Group Leader and Process Engineering Manager) staff.

• Drive for continuous improvement in cost, quality, cycle time reduction, and operational processes within the factory

• Accountable for significant factory improvement by driving lean initiatives which include 6S, TPM, Visual Management, Kanban, Kaizen.

• Sponsors teams in the BIC (Business Improvement Competitions).

• Oversee through Process Engineering Manager, factory process quality and ensure measurement, analysis, and implementation of corrective actions to improve

• Review and validate staffing levels to support business needs.

• Develop, present, and manage annual and quarterly budgets for the manufacturing organization, in conjunction with the Factory Controller.

• Accountable for career development, succession planning, performance management, coaching and mentoring of staff which includes comprehensive training plans, developing succession plans, and empowering production teams.

• Work across the organization with NPI Director manager for new product introductions allocated to the site to ensure optimal ramp up of new products

• Benchmark industrial sites, internal and external.

• Formal presentations to management team related to product quality, cost, and schedule performance metrics.



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