15h Left: Production Manager Naas, NAAS Kildare

Job Purpose: Plan, lead, direct, and monitor all production and maintenance activities to
maximise the use of the organisation's resources to deliver finished goods to
customer demand and meet established production specifications and
schedules

Reports to: Operations Manager
Location: Naas, Co Kildare

Days of work: Mon to Friday
Hours of work: Evenings 15:30 to 12 midnight
Shift Allowance: 20%
Specific Quals: Food manufacturing Diploma and advantage
Number currently on team: 10
Team Structure: Manager – Supervisor- Team Lead – Lead Op – Gen Op

Key Responsibilities:
Responsibilities associated with this role include, but are not limited to:

• Direct and manage all production activities to ensure the daily and weekly production plan is
delivered, production targets are achieved, and operational performance is maximised

• Provide a high level of leadership and management to the production team to ensure that
operational issues are identified and managed so that they do not impact on performance

• Actively manage to promote a culture of staff engagement focusing on teamwork, problem
solving, transparency and reporting

• Construct production work rosters in an effective manner to ensure the efficient and timely
delivery of the weekly production plan in full

• Review the weekly production plan and identify any potential risks or production constraints
that may impact on the plan. Provide feedback to the planning department and/ or where
necessary, implement contingency plans to proactively negate any risks identified

• Monitor productivity rates against agreed set targets. Initiate root cause analyses where
target thresholds have not been achieved and present findings outlining cause and steps/
actions to be taken

• Oversee recruitment and make provision for the training and development of production
personnel

• Identify, train, and develop strong leaders into key roles to provide for a robust team
structure

• Ensure there is adequate cross training and labour cover for key positions to account for any
planned or unplanned staff absences due to holidays or other unforeseen circumstances
such as sickness, injury, or other types of absences

• Ensure all disciplinary incidents and staff absences are dealt with in a professional and timely
manner and in accordance with the company HR policies

• Effectively communicate with all team members on a regular basis and provide
opportunities for feedback. This is achieved through one-to-one sessions with key staff in
addition to daily and weekly structured meetings

• Conduct employee Performance Appraisals and establish training and development plans

• Maintain and apply detailed standard operating procedures (SOP's) and schedules for all
production activity to meet the requirements of BRC or any other relevant customer food
safety standards

• Provide key performance indicator data as required and comply with all internal and
external audit requirements including representation of the production function during key
customer audits and visits

Health & Safety

The Person

Qualifications/ Skills/ Experience:

• A competent professional with proven experience of managing and leading a team within a
manufacturing environment, ideally food manufacturing

• 3 years people management experience

• A strong ability to engage and motivate staff

• Competent in Microsoft Office

• Experience using manufacturing software beneficial

• Strong problem solving capabilities

• Experience of working within a compliance driven environment to BRC level or equivalent
regulating bodies

• Proven experience of driving improvements in site standards

• Experience of managing within set budgets, measuring and reporting on key operational
metrics

• Experience of managing external third-party service providers

• Experience of conducting training on both a 1:1 basis and in small groups

• Strong spoken and written English skills

• Planning and organising of staff, time and work schedules

• Ability to communicate across a wide range of interested parties including direct reports,
external suppliers, other factory departments

• Excellent attention to detail

• Committed to working in a manner that meets the demands of the factory's operation. This
will at times require a flexible approach to start and finish times and may include occasional
weekend working

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