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Production Manager

Forvia Faurecia (Pluak Daeng, Rayong, Thailand)
Rayong, Thailand 🇹🇭
Faurecia is a global automotive supplier with a mission to develop safe, sustainable, advanced, and customized mobility technologies. The company has four business groups, including seating, interiors, clean mobility, and electronics. Faurecia also offers solutions that align with its convictions and values to meet future generation challenges. It is part of the FORVIA group, which has over 300 industrial sites and 63 R&D centers across 40+ countries. FORVIA is focused on becoming the preferred innovation and integration partner for OEMS worldwide and committed to making mobility transformation happen.

About this position

Production Manager is responsible for ensuring the proper implementation of 7MSR (Safety Fundamental) and adhering to Faurecia's Code of Ethics and Code of Management. They manage production plans, financial targets, and the production team, ensuring staffing and maintaining a safe working environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure proper implementation 7MSR (Mandatory Safety Rules) in his area of responsibility.
• Acknowledge and agree to comply with the guidelines of Faurecia’s Code of Ethics and Code of Management to ensure all actions are fully aligned to the guideline.
• Follow production plans, as well as Group standard processes; assure feasibility of production plans.
• Achieve financial targets: prepare and present the UAP budget; manage the actual production costs based on 'ideal' costs; maintain product margin, and monitor serial productivity (labor level, material consumption, etc.).
• Manage the Production team: assure appropriate staffing, maintain working environment according to Group Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) standards, detect and advise training needs, share information (transparency), participate in career management initiatives, etc.
• Serve as official plant representative to the customer: meet established customer specifications concerning cycle time, delivery, quality, quantity, and costs; implement preventative and corrective measures in the production process to assure that customer demands are properly met; coordinate with client's quality team to meet all customer standards.
• Implement action plans in order to improve functionality/productivity and to obtain program and Group objectives; make necessary corrective adjustments.
• Participate in the creation of Production System Efficiency (PSE) projects.
• Coordinate resource planning with Industrial Engineering department concerning stocks, equipment, staffing, activities, etc.
• Maintain dashboard indicators/status reports to monitor lead time, supply chain targets, HSE performance, etc.
• Take the leadership to uphold the commitment to CoE, CoM and other internal compliance policy in the responsible team and relevant business partners to ensure that it is distributed to all employees and that each employee adheres to it.
• Responsible for ensuring conformity to product requirements and to corrective actions taken.

Requirements

• Minimum education level: Bachelor or Master's degree in engineering with a specialization in Production.
• At least 5 years of production experience and 3-5 years team management experience.
• Operational knowledge of Production methods (Kanban, 5S, Hoshin, TPM, GPAO).
• Basic office software operation.
• Team player, proactive, positive attitude, good personality, and hands-on style.
• Mature, good interpersonal, and leadership skills.