Production Assistant Manager

Job description

This position provides leadership and production management in shift basis to ensure world class manufacturing principles are followed as well as production practices/KPIs are maintained and improved. This position will interact pro-actively with leadership team and implement all requirements down to shop floor. The incumbent is expected to actively participate in the benchmarking and sharing best practices among the Production Department in order to continuously improve the product supply capability.

This position provides a common standard of communication and engagement across the factory. They liaise closely with the core factory functions, including Manufacturing, HR, Quality and Safety to achieve this. Directly supervises employees in a Site to ensure maximum use of available capacity and effective use of labor, tools and equipment. Design and implement operations improvement strategies for safety, cost, quality, training, inventory, and services.

Collaborate with other functional areas to resolve problems and develop improved manufacturing processes. Maintain quality control processes to ensure products/services meet quality standards; lead implementation of process improvements. Drive improvement strategies in all key metric areas; manage production flow, staffing schedule and resources to budget and plan. Ensure best practices and standard operating procedures are being followed by conducting frequent business audits.

Ensure AM practices, 5S and discipline at shopfloor Lead improvement projects, ELS as specifics Closely working with Production planning control team to analyze the business status, proactively cooperate with Commercial Function and take action to achieve business target

Qualifications

Bachelor degree or above; Major in printing engineering, packaging or related; 5-8 years experiences in similar areas Strong leadership quality in accordance with Avery Dennison’s Leadership Principles. Inter-functional Business understanding and knowledge, Business Intuition (in production aspects).

Special Skill

Knowledge and experiences in Enterprise Lean Sigma is very preferred.

Technical Skill

Engineering/process knowledge on garment production, weaving or printing operations is preferred. Fluent in English is very preferred. Candidates must be able to analyze factory and technical processes in order to identify opportunities for performance improvement. Strong coaching skills are a pre-requisite; enquiring, supportive, challenging.