Production Manager

Job Description : Production Manager for a company in the dairy sector in Castilla y León SPAIN Its mission will be to coordinate, organize and supervise the material and human resources of the different supply, production and logistics areas to comply with the production plan assigned to the plant, guaranteeing the established levels of quality and food safety. Ø Assign the most suitable job positions for each worker under their charge based on their category, human capacity and professional experience, preparing the lists of personnel for weekly work shifts, giving instructions to the HR Department to sue or dispense with temporary workers and ETT`s in tune with commercial demand, in order to optimize personnel costs. Ø H&S functions according to the risk prevention plan of the plant, supporting and supervising the correct application of the occupational and environmental risk prevention policy. Ø Plan together with Central Logistics the weekly production schedule of the factory based on commercial needs and the established minimum stocks, issuing daily the production plan by line and shift, taking into account the tense flow. Ø Organize daily meetings with the Supervisors under their responsibility to control the correct execution of the daily production plans or redesign them if incidents had occurred that would have prevented their compliance. Ø Establish the necessary circuits so that the information on downtime, incidents and breakdowns of the production line equipment can be evaluated daily in the efficiency improvement meetings that are held together with the Plant Director and the team of maintenance management. Ø Define the minimum stocks of raw materials and packaging according to seasonality, supplier delivery times and the cost of these elements, in order to guarantee production plans and minimize the value of immobilized stocks. Ø Organize and supervise the monthly inventories of raw materials and production materials to obtain the value of the losses of these elements, investigating the results that deviate from the set objectives, informing the Plant Management of their possible causes, prioritizing for economic value, and proposing the necessary corrective actions to avoid them. Ø Prepare the preliminary draft of the budgets of the accounts corresponding to his department, based on the available data of volumes and general objectives set by the Company. Ø Control and supervise monthly the situation of the expense made, issuing a report to the Director of the Plant, proposing measures to correct the deviations. Ø Propose annually to the Director of the Plant investments aimed at improving infrastructure, increasing productivity or reducing costs. Ø Monitor, through the data obtained from self-control in the production line, compliance with the quality specifications according to the established objectives, periodically reviewing with their Supervisors the correct operation of the facilities under their responsibility to guarantee safety food. A Production Manager is required, with training in industrial, mechanical or similar engineering. With at least 15 years of experience in continuous production in a food industry plant in the production department. Knowledge of tense flow work, highly valued experience within the dairy sector or its derivatives.

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