Onsite Operations Department Manager

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About the role

  • Operations Department Manager responsible for organizing production activities at Bridgestone. Coaching teams and implementing production strategies to meet targets and ensure safety and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Responsibility for organizing and managing all production related activities
  • Coaching, training, motivating, and guiding all equipment owners, cell, process, and maintenance leaders
  • Implementing and enforcing operating policies and procedures
  • Delivering agreed production operating targets and goals
  • Implementing strategies to ensure safe and efficient production operations, continuous improvement and delivering superior quality on a consistent basis
  • Manage professionals on process and maintenance as well as a team of operators to obtain the cell’s assumed goals arising from CBN, the Master Plan and the Annual Plan of the department
  • Create and maintain a safe and healthy working and operating environment for all people on the manufacturing site
  • Drive delivery of agreed production operating targets and goals including OE and Warehouse Yield; production volume; conversion cost; material usage; plant and process reliability; productivity and waste reduction
  • Prepare and obtain approval for operating cost budgets and drive production cost performance to achieve agreed budgets and targets
  • Drive implementation of IWS, B-Safe and B-EMEC and any other Bridgestone manufacturing strategies and initiatives
  • Ensure compliance and strict adherence to Bridgestone quality standards
  • Monitor operations and implement corrective actions to full on time delivery of agreed production budgets and goals
  • Identify, coach and develop talent to build competency and capability to support our cell centric organization
  • Drive employee engagement and compliance with all legal and corporate policies and regulations relating to labour, safety, health, quality, and the environment
  • Guide and coordinate the activities of the team
  • Management of the clean, inspect and lubricate (CIL) process
  • Management of Defects Handling process
  • Management of the Incident Elimination process
  • Managing and improving results (i.e. driving performance improvement)
  • Lead execution of 90-day plans to eliminate losses using IWS tools
  • Lead the cell daily direction setting (DDS) meetings
  • On the floor coaching of operators e.g. DMS execution, loss elimination, skills development and technical mastery
  • Provide coaching to team leaders in the shift exchange DDS meetings
  • Lead issue resolution “to root cause” on the floor of chronic stops
  • Overall responsibility for CFT cell output
  • Conduct Health checks and identify gaps

Requirements

  • Minimum National Diploma in Operations Management, Industrial Engineering or equivalent
  • Min of 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
  • 2 years management experience
  • Experience and reasonable technical mastery in operations
  • Must demonstrate knowledge/experience working with Excel
  • Planning, Leading and Organizing skills
  • Communication skills and willingness to interact with shop floor staff
  • A desire to be in a lead role
  • Be a self-starter
  • Sound Interpersonal Skills and ability to work under pressure
  • Presentation Skills
  • Analytical Skills

Benefits

  • A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
  • The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
  • Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
  • A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
  • Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
  • A diverse and inclusive team.

Job title

Operations Department Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Location requirements

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