Production / Operations Manager

• Baumer

The Baumer Group is one of the worldwide leading manufacturers of sensors, encoders, measuring instruments and components for automated image-processing. Baumer combines innovative technologies and consumer-oriented services into intelligent solutions for factory and process automation and offers an unrivaled wide technology and product portfolio. With around 2,600 employees and 38 subsidiaries in 19 countries, the family-owned group of companies is always close to the customer.

Baumer provides clients most diverse industries with vital benefits and measurable added value by worldwide consistent high quality standards and outstanding innovative potential.

Our new Baumer production plant is being built in Skopje, Macedonia. For the overall production management of this new plant we are looking for:

Production / Operations Manager (m/f)  

After intensive training at our production plants in Germany and Switzerland, the selected candidate will assume the overall responsibility for operations within our new site in Skopje.  

Challenges / responsibilities:

• Direct and supervise day-to-day smooth production process by actively managing the production control
• Oversee the long term planning and initiatives geared towards enhanced operations
• Utilize cost-benefit analytical techniques in improving operational efficiency.
• Monitor the activities of production staff to ensure compliance with set health/safety regulations and procedures
• Maintain a cost-effective production process by using only required amounts of resources to achieve set production targets
• Ensure timely and effective delivery of goods to clients
• Liaise with the quality control department of the organization to make sure products meet set production specifications
• Allocate and manage resources in order to achieve optimal standards, performance and productivity in a plant
• Responsible for design-to-cost measures for production in collaboration with other plant managers and R + D and through consistent application / implementation of lean management and Six Sigma methods
• Compliance with and implementation of all legal requirements as well as continuous improvement of environmental, health and safety as well as quality, time and cost specifications
• Conduct assessment of plant operational procedures to identify areas of inefficiency and initiate action plan for improvement
• Prepare and submit to upper management regular reports of plant operations as well as maintain accurate inventory and ensure proper storage of received raw materials
• Facilitate scheduled equipment maintenance as well as repair/replacement 
• Compliance with the inspection deadlines at facilities and installations requiring monitoring
• Implementation of the QA (Quality Assurance – Ensuring the quality excellence in the plant Skopje) processes and the TQM (Total Quality Management) procedures
• Responsibility for hiring and training of production staff to ensure an efficient workforce
• Communication with local authorities and local suppliers and maintain positive trust relationships with suppliers to ensure constant flow of required raw materials
• Ensuring the proper maintenance of production facilities

Qualifications and Expertise:

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related fields;
• Minimum 5 years in the Production Manager position or similar positions;
• Excellent command of spoken and written English language 
• TCO (total cost of ownership) consideration
• Strong project management skills
• Solid experience in lean management and Six Sigma 
• FMEA, project planning, value analysis
• Knowledge in the areas of production, new technologies, electronics production and controlling (product costing, process costs, investment costs)
• Industry 4.0
• Knowledge and experience in production and manufacturing processes and techniques, raw materials, quality systems and standards, health and safety standards and compliance, process improvement techniques, business, finance and management principles, solid computer skills

Leadership and Personal Skills:

• Production Manager with the areas of production, purchasing, planning, industrial engineering and project management
• Ability to direct and motivate staff to effectively perform job duties
• Problem-solving skills to defects or limitations in production
• Good at executing projects
• Dedicated and reliable, independent and initiative
• Thinking systematically and networked
• Communicative and creative
• Hands-on mentality
• Cosmopolitan (also intercultural)

What makes this job attractive?

• Significantly contributes to the company's success
• Collaboration with various departments and legal entities in the world
• Work in an international, successful growing high-tech Swiss family business with flat hierarchies

With Baumer you will find an exciting work environment with a lot of variety and freedom for self-initiative in a dynamic and rapidly growing successful Swiss family-owned company.

Candidates who meet the above stated qualification are encouraged to send their CV to hr.mk@baumer.com 

The deadline for applying is no later than: 20/07/2018.

Only short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview.