Assistant Production Manager

Function Description

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Every day you are busy coaching the production workers to get the most out of the production process. You think it is cool to produce all orders as efficiently as possible on a daily basis, while there is a good atmosphere in the department. To be able to flawlessly produce this beautiful product with your enthusiastic team gives you a kick!”

Just another day at the office…
Together with the production team, you start the shift by making sure there is a flying start. Within minutes of the shift start all lines are running properly. While going through the production planning and daily analysis, you enjoy a cup of fresh mint tea. The analysis of the day before showed that line 11 did not perform as expected. You make an analysis of the cause and plan the necessary actions. It turns out that line 11 loses too much time during a changeover. You therefore involve the Operators and our Continuous Improvement Coordinator, Tomasz, to make a short improvement plan. You ensure that it is implemented that same day.

Then you do a round on the floor. In the meantime, you monitor the performance of all lines. During lunch you can enjoy a delicious cup of soup and challenge 2 colleagues during a table tennis match. After lunch you have a one-on-one half year evaluation meeting with our Senior Operators together with your colleague Assistant Production Manager Sylwia. The Senior Operators made great progress and therefore deserve a nice compliment and a good review. Together you process the next development steps for the coming six months.

At the end of the shift, you check whether there have been any problems during production that are important to know for other departments. You make a short note, so that you can discuss some action points the next day during the daily "Operational Sunrise meeting". Just before you go home, you go through next week's schedule with our Operations Scheduling Specialist, Daniel.

But of course, you do a lot more…

• Together with our 4 other Assistant Production Managers you are responsible for leading the operational production team (100 employees). Important elements of your job are onboarding, coaching, developing, and training our (new) Senior Operators, Operators, and Production Workers;

• On daily basis you check the staff planning of our production lines;

• Continuous improvement is part of the job. You contribute to Kaizen/Scrum projects;

• Implementing and monitoring 5S on the packing department;

• Responsible for a good communication and information flow between production and office;

• You have a strong focus on (product) quality (packs and raw materials) to make sure that our quality level is super high!