KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Production Management: Plan, direct, and coordinate production activities to meet customer demands and deadlines efficiently. Ensure all products comply with AutoStore's technical specifications, quality standards, and customer requirements throughout the production lifecycle.
• Engineering Oversight: Extend your management scope to include engineering responsibilities, ensuring that production engineering processes are optimized and integrated seamlessly with day-to-day production workflows.
• Quality Assurance: Implement and support the Quality System Basics and 8D structured product and process improvements. Ensure all operations meet or exceed set quality standards and support the Quality Department in this effort.
• Team Leadership: Lead and manage a team, organizing regular review meetings and feedback sessions to maintain high levels of team performance and morale. Define and implement the organizational structure and allocate both internal and external resources as necessary.
• Budget and Resource Management: Plan and control the production budget, ensuring efficient use of financial resources and proper cost allocation.
• System Implementation: Implement and maintain the Toyota Production System (TPS) to enhance operational efficiency and productivity.
• Interdepartmental Collaboration: Work closely with other departments and subsidiaries to align production with broader company goals and initiatives.
• Lead, direct and coordinate a team of employees within the area of responsibility, manage the review meeting process at different production stages and make sessions with the direct reports.
• Plan and control the production budget within the area of responsibility, ensure the efficient use of the financial resources and well as the proper allocation of costs.
• Plan, implement and control the production steps and deadlines, conduct the first-part inspection tests in case of modifications.
• Implement Toyota Production System(TPS).
• Control the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) (operating rate, performance rate and quality rate) to examine the overall production performance.
• Collaborate actively with the other departments/subsidiaries.
• Manage the plant and machine safety and ensure that all safety requirements are met, ensure compliance with the environmental policies.
• Ensure the employees´ safety and proper working conditions by conducting health management events/workshops and audits, conduct the safety audits.
• Ensure and maintain of all records as per ISO /Customer Standards.
• Have good knowledge and understanding of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

KEY QUALIFICATIONS:

• University degree in Engineering or relevant field of technical or business education.
• Min 10 years of relevant work experience in the field of operations.
• Good organizational and planning skills, problem-solving.
• Proven experience in production management and engineering within a manufacturing environment, preferably in the automotive or technology sectors.
• Familiarity with quality assurance systems, lean manufacturing principles, and environmental and safety regulations.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES / Skillset:

• Fluent in both verbal and written English
• Strong work ethic and positive team attitude.
• Extremely detail-oriented and analytical thinking.
• Able to interface directly with cross-functional teams.
• Recognize and prioritize quality issues.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing diverse teams.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and decision-making skills.