Job description
Job description
Responsibilities:
- Establish company manufacturing plans
- Provides assurance on design manufacturability, and performs a manufacturability checker role on engineering drawings prior to approval and release
- Co-ordinate R&D / Development projects into production
- Liaises with projects division to determine requirements
- Approves materials, costs, manufacturing equipment, and the size of workforce needs to manufacture goods
- Predict how long a project will take to complete
- Develop a production schedule detailing all tasks and when they should be completed by to meet predicted completion date
- Liaise with customers, suppliers, the human resources department, and maintenance employees to ensure all resources will be available when required
- Monitor project's progress to ensure it's following the schedule
- Track material supply flow and production, and identify any shortages or bottlenecks in usage
- Support in the organisation project paperwork, including purchase orders, and maintains records
- Collect and assesses data about the production and team's performance
- Forecast market challenges based on competitor analysis and industry trends
- Manage deadlines based on project expectations
- Prepare reports about production processes for upper management and suggests ways to improve efficiency
Experience & Qualifications:
- BSc in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- Project Management certification such as Association for Project Management (APM), Lean Six Sigma preferred
- Technical certifications such as an APICS desirable
Permanent position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference PR/064766
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.