Area Production Manager

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Manufacturing​

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

 

The Area Production Manager is responsible, in a particular area within the plant, for the management of labor, scheduling, quality adherence, maintenance, budget control and tactical execution.  The role carries responsibility for assisting the Operations Manager with managing the sites multi-million-dollar variable budgets to ensure site Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) are achieved and improvement plans are in place to reach targets.

Your responsibilities

•         Responsible for ensuring production operations are carried out in a safe manner and in accordance with State and Federal regulations including our company policies and/or in compliance with GMP guidelines, Hazardous Waste, OSHA, EPA, policies, and procedures.

•         Responsible for production operations by ensuring all products are manufactured in accordance with our quality standards and to an agreed schedule, at minimum cost. 

•         Leads the analysis of available loss data and champions activities to improve plant equipment effectiveness and reduce waste within operations.

•         Empowers production teams to take ownership for their work processes and improvement plans to be fully autonomous to ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPI) targets are achieved.

•         Accountable for ensuring sufficient and flexible work processes are developed in conjunction with plant leadership team and then implemented flawlessly throughout all operations to deliver plant KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators).

•         Responsible for development and communication of clear project scopes to support the plant continuous improvement methodology and meet new product development timings.  Leads and co-ordinates all production activities with engineering and materials.

•         Reinforce the use of continuous improvement tools such as Autonomous Maintenance, Focused Improvement, 5s, etc. to deliver measurable improvements, plus build the Continuous Improvement culture and expertise within the production stream. 

 

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The experience we're looking for

•         A Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or Business discipline

•         Demonstrable experience in production management, team leadership, project management and continuous improvement tools

•         Must be able to speak, read, write, and understand English

•         Ability to interpret financial data as needed to set production goals

•         Knowledge and understanding of manufacturing, bulk processing, and packaging operations equipment

•         Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software 

 

The duties and responsibilities identified in this position description are considered essential but are not limited to only those outlined.  The incumbent may perform other functions that may be assigned.  Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of this position at any time.

The skills for success

Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Category Management Expertise, Supply Management, Procurement, Production, Area Production Manager, Maintenance.

What we offer

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