Production Manager Jobs

Join a top employer and advance your career! Aplin has partnered with a Nova Scotia-based company to hire a Production Manager.

Reporting to the General Manager, the Production Manager is an essential leader within our demanding production organization. Working with the production supervisory team, this highly motivated individual is responsible for ensuring a high degree of coordination and focus.

The role will require relocation to Amherst, Nova Scotia and our client is offering a lucrative base, benefits, RRSP, and relocation assistance.

Responsibilities

• Support the overall business objectives of the organization
• Provide leadership and direction to a team of Production Supervisors and their departments
• Lead cross-functional teams to manage continuous flow manufacturing and pull systems, 5S improvements
• Prepare and monitor operations budgets and work with the production team to ensure costs meet or beat budget
• Develop Capacity Plans, ensuring the balance of the capacity of the operation with the workload demands of the customer
• Ensure Health & Safety programs are implemented in a manner that safeguards the well-being of staff and promotes prompt responses to health & safety concerns
• Lead the development of new and innovative reporting tools that will allow the organization to better identify opportunities for productivity and quality improvements
• Monitor and manage the production organization to ensure the organization meets the objectives of the production schedule, as well as cost and quality of the product to the customer
• Foster a positive employee relations climate that will encourage buy-in, teamwork and participation by employees across the organization
• Ensure all personnel from the shop floor to front-line leadership have the required knowledge and skills to employ lean methodologies on an ongoing basis

Required

• Preference will be given to candidates with experience in the Aerospace Industry
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to influence, motivate and gain employee commitment to achieve results
• Excellent communication, delegation, problem solving, multi-tasking and team building skills
• Experience working with ERP system (JD. Edwards Preferred); work to ensure the capacity plan supports the workload and is balanced and achievable
• Must have strong analytical to interpret results
• Must be eligible to meet requirements for Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP), and Secret Level II Security Clearance through PSPC- Contract Security Program
• Possess advanced computer skills including MS Office and Microsoft Project, Power BI reporting
• Strong knowledge of JIT/Lean Manufacturing principles, Six Sigma and Change Management
• A four-year degree or technologist accreditation, preferably in engineering or another technical discipline; or an equivalent combination of experience and relevant education
• Demonstrated ability to implement continuous improvement processes in a manufacturing environment
• 5 years of operations or production management experience in a lean manufacturing environment

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