Job description
Date: Jul 29, 2023
Location: Dunfermline, GB, KY11 8ZS
Company: Optos
- Leads, facilitates, and stands in for the Manufacturing Manager, and co-ordinates the production team to ensure manufacture of quality products and delivery of finished goods in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Leads, motivates, and develops staff, maximizing their individual contribution, their professional growth, and their ability to function effectively with their colleagues and as a team, to build and maintain a high-performance atmosphere through goals and objective setting.
- Works with peers to implement standard global processes and best practices that consistently deliver products to the highest standards.
- Ensures manufacturing objectives are achieved, along with monthly production schedule targets.
- Optimizes efficiency on an ongoing basis through utilization of lean techniques and methodologies.
- Ensures compliance with the company’s Health, Safety and Environmental policies and procedures within the manufacturing environment.
- Creates, implements, and manages production performance metrics.
- Works with the engineering team to ensure that production issues are being addressed and satisfactorily resolved.
- Ensures conformance of direct reports to released product-specific processes in DMRs and business processes released on Compliant Pro.
- HNC or above (or equivalent work experience) with the ability to directly support the production line.
- Inherently a leader with the ability to execute and bring the team along.
- Quality focused, with no compromise.
- Excellent motivation and team building skills.
- Excellent Communicator, confident to generate and formally present information to small and large groups of people.
- Need to pull the disparate complexities into a simple product reality.
- Demonstrated understanding of cGMP.
- Six Sigma and/or Lean Manufacturing experience.
- Must have the ability to drive results and maintain personal accountability.
- Ability to build, develop, and foster talent by creating a positive continuous learning environment.
- Excellent organisation skills, focused on execution with strong attention to detail.
- Must show adaptability to manage effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Must have a strong work ethic, judgment, and sense of integrity.
- Team orientated, responsive and customer focused.