Manufacturing Case Study

Technical Environment: Manufacturing

Role: Senior Manufacturing/Production Manager
Managing 200 semi- skilled workforce to deliver operations excellence performances with targets benchmarked against
standards of the European leader and German sister Company

Responsibilities

    To lead operational Change Management programmes        
    Transfer knowledge of operational techniques specialising in Industrial Eng & business improvements
    Provide leadership and Employee Relations skills in a unionised environment
    Planning using MRP, Capacity Planning, Inventory Control and Customer Response time 
    Manage high volume batch production processes
    Structured Training for Employee and Organisational Development
    Strategic people management development
    Job redesign

Achievements:

    Doubled productivity, measured as Kg/labour/hr.
    Labour and departmental efficiencies in line with above achieved
    International benchmarking research conducted to pursue best practice
    Reduced material waste by 50%
    Formulated and implemented a health & safety management programme – winners of ROSPA Silver and Bronze medals
    Implemented a training programme to established the company as a RTO – BPTA levels 1 & 2 NVQ.
    Implemented Lean, TQM and ISO 9000 Programmes

Technical Environment: Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry; customers included VW, BMW