Production Manager

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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Production Manager located in Jiading, Shanghai.

Guides and coordinates activities of employees engaged in the following areas of a manufacturing department; multi-level assembly, electronic card/system testing and quality assurance to attain production goals consistent with cost, quality, and delivery requirements.

What a typical day looks like:

• The role will manage manufacturing and warehouse.
• Work closely with the engineering, quality, planning, IT and other stakeholders to support the growing business.
• Budget Control, organization development planning.
• Pursuing the high-quality and low-cost, improve the utilization of machines.
• Support new product introduction, design changes, process improvements, and test procedures.
• Monitor/track WIP level and optimize.
• Follow-up on work order aging.
• Maintains receiving, warehousing, and distribution operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing programs, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Conduct floor cycle count, physical inventory.
• Ensure ISO and safety standards are adhered to.
• Guides department activities to hold up design of new products, modify existing designs, improve production techniques, and help on test procedures.
• Explores technology trends and market demand to plan projects.
• Contributes with management, production, and marketing staff to resolve manufacturing feasibility, cost effectiveness, and customer demand for new and existing products.
• Forecasts operating costs of department and directs preparation of budget requests.
• Partners with team and management in the development of the strategic plan and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for the function.
• Reviews and establishes material, equipment, and manpower resource requirements.
• Prioritizes production schedules based on product introduction, equipment efficiency, and materials supply in order to meet customer requirements.
• Coordinates production activities with other functional groups such as planning and distribution.
• Selects and develops personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the production function.
• Accountable for controlling manufacturing operation and ensuring that production quality and cost targets are met.
• Working in extremely complex problems where the research of situations or data from an evaluation of intangible factors.
• Reviews budgets and schedules required by management.
• Regulate relations with the executives and/or major customers to maintain relationships with them.
• Resolve controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading management levels for the achievements of the plant.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires Bachelor’s degree in areas of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Automation Engineering, etc
• 8+ years of production management relevant experience.
• Strong expertise in manufacturing or related technical areas (SMT, test, manual assembly).
• Advanced leadership, process management, and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of multiple manufacturing processes and cross-functional dependencies.
• Lean manufacturing.
• Familiar with SAP.
• Six-sigma yellow belt or above is preferred.
• RBA knowledge is preferred
• Be able to play a manager role in a team, showing promising characters of leadership, creativeness.
• Independent self-motivated and well organized with analytical mind.
• Good communication skills and production management skills.
• Fluent English in Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Social Insurance
• Commercial insurance
• PTO
• Transportation allowance
• Annual medical check-up

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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