Production Manager Slovakia

Main Responsibilities
The production manager supervises and manages the shop floor employees with the shift leaders and team leader to conduct the manufacturing process according to the plan in the required quality, quantity and on-time. In this context the main focus is skilled people's management in the given shop floor environment which assures that the employees conduct their work according to the given work- and process instruction, respect the given health- safety- and environmental instructions and proactively contribute continuous improvements of the production process.

Work content:
* Preparation of the daily shop floor plan for each department and shift assuring the proper manning to conduct the production
* Production performance follow up per department and shift assuring to meet the given production plan
* Conduct continuous coaching of shift leader, team leaders and shop-floor employees to assure the full comprehension of work- & process instructions and controls, health & safety instructions, productivity recording and communication matrices
* Train, supervise and motivate employees to proactively contribute in continuous improvement efforts of the company in quality- productivity standards as well as in health- and safety standards
* Steady monitoring of process parameters to assure consistency and react according to the communication matrices in the case of inconsistencies
* Monitor and record the production output per department and shift to assure to meet the given production target, trigger and conduct corrective measure in case of inconsistencies
* Conduct and/or participate the regular management-and team meeting of the plant and provide all required output- & performance data of the production providing full transparency, trigger and conduct corrective if required and follow up
* Practice proactively 5S-concept in the shop floor to assure a clean, orderly, safe and well organized shop floor environment which steadily thrives to minimize non-added value time in the manufacturing steps for each department

* Technical education with engineering degree or similar
* Driven by operational excellence with in strong background in modern lean management tools
* Strong affinity to production environment
* Skilled in people's management: supervision, guidance, coaching, motivating, assisting in all needs
* Strong communication skills in English and in the local language and with standard communication tools
* Organizational talent
* Strong team player, team driver and team leader
* Analytical and creative thinking
* Fluent Slovak/Czech and English. German would be advantage

Other manufacturing

Our client PPC Insulators part of Seves Group is a leading manufacturer of porcelain insulators for overhead line, substation and precipitator applications. Our client´s extensive knowledge and production technology enables to produce the best insulator designs up to 1200kV AC and 800kV DC system voltages.

In 2001 PPC has been formed through the combination of the US 'Porcelain Products' company and the European based 'Ceram' group. Combining those two operations resulted in the creation of one of the largest porcelain insulator manufactures worldwide.

Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, PPC Insulators employs more than 1,300 people in 7 countries.
Currently for our client we are looking for experienced Production Manager based in Cab close to Nitra/Slovakia