Production Line Manager

Job description

Reporting directly to the site Production Manager, you will be responsible for all activities of one or more repair production lines. You will manage a repair production team coordinated by a Technician/Leader for each line.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.

• Ensuring that the customer's needs are met while respecting safety, quality, costs, and delivery deadlines.
• Ensuring the required transformations and change management.
• Providing a vision and uniting the teams around the entity's challenges.
• Organizing your teams in a way that promotes multidisciplinary contributions, autonomy, accountability, and cross-functionality with the aim of being agile and adaptable to operational contingencies and customer needs.
• Ensuring that competencies and resources are maintained at the highest level within the expanded scope.
• Ensuring the accessibility and quality of data in the sector.

Guaranteeing the use of and compliance with the referential.

• Ensuring compliance of all production, processes and the correct application of all directives (Part 145 regulations, HSE, etc.).

Managerial Focus / Organizing the activity:

• Maintaining a working environment that complies with HSE requirements and ensuring the safety of the teams working under your responsibility.
• Implementing the guidelines and objectives of the Site Manager for your scope of responsibility into SQCDP (Safety – Quality – Cost – Delivery – People) operational objectives in line with other Production Line Managers.
• Ensuring that products are repaired in terms of quality and quantity to meet customer order requirements within the set deadlines and costs.
• Managing and planning the resources of the repair production lines around a workload/capacity tool in terms of repair production resources and staff (quantities and competencies). Anticipating the needs related to the ramp-up of the repair production tool.
• Identifying training needs, defining training initiatives to ensure the development of the team, and contributing to employee career management.
• Managing the skills and training of the teams to guarantee the quality of operations.

Implementing effective communication within the team/repair production lines by ensuring communication routines to maintain a good social climate.

• Promoting the functioning of the teams in line with the leadership model principles.

Responsible for ensuring that employees comply with all Policies and Procedures.
Operational Focus / Managing performance:

• Monitoring the performance indicators of the repair production lines in relation to the monthly targets and developing continuous improvement plans (improvement project): 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, etc.

Job requirements

a) Knowledge and Skills

• Aviation/Aerospace Component Repair Knowledge including CMM, Quality systems and manuals.
• Computer Proficiency (Microsoft Suite).
• Performance management (quality, costs, deadlines).
• Production management/repair management.

b) Competencies

• Technical Knowledge.
• Risk Management.
• Continuous improvement/Lean.
• HSE requirements.
• Skills Development.
• Organizational Skills.
• Leadership Capabilities.
• Interpersonal Skills.
• Change Management.
• Process Oriented.
• Communications Proficiency.
• Time/Priority Management.
• Problem Solving/Analysis.
• Discretion.

c) Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree + 5 years / Engineering degree – General or Mechanical.
• 3 to 5 years' successful experience in manufacturing, installation, or repairs would be a considerable asset for this position. Experience in team management would be a plus.

d) Communication Skills

• Good oral and written communication skills essential for interaction with both internal and external customers.

e) Physical Demands

• The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, and kneeling. The employee must sometimes lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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