Senior Operations Manager (Steel Industry) at Kloverharris Limited

Objective

• Ensuring the optimal functioning of the production department. This includes both production and logistics operations. Managing and supporting the employees of the department. Develop, implement and monitor policies.

Result areas

Preparation

• In consultation with the Operations Director, develops policies, draws up the resulting action plans, ensures the implementation of these plans and adjusts them if necessary
• Identifies market developments and aligns policy as necessary
• Sets, in consultation with the Operations Director, departmental objectives and communicates them to his employees

Implementation

• Ensures proper handling of production
• Ensures the correct handling of logistic operations
• Handles management production reporting
• Ensures regular work consultation
• Develops, initiates and implements working methodologies to improve the department
• Has responsibility for the planning of the of the Production department

Leadership

• 30 to 40 employees
• The performance of production department staff
• Seeking to optimise the use of available capacity
• Mutual communication and cooperation, including with other departments
• Encouraging the personal development of its employees
• Proper implementation of policies
• Conducting assessment and performance interviews
• Providing regular work consultation
• Actively managing absenteeism

Powers

• Determines, within the set budget and objectives, the developments of the
• Production policy as a member of the Steering Committee
• Takes new developments into account and determines the measures to be taken

Responsibility

• Carrying out work of the production department and ultimately responsible for the department's results
• Co-developing and implementing policy
• Proper handling of projects
• Production reports for management
• Setting departmental objectives
• Complying with safety, health and safety, environmental, and quality regulations
• Reporting deviations/accidents and near accidents

Communications

• Management - in connection with setting production policy
• Colleagues - for information, planning, transfer of knowledge on technology, pricing policy and product development
• Clients on quality, orders, technical issues and delivery time and complaints
• Employees to carry out managerial responsibilities
• Colleagues on the Steering Committee on which the manager sits
• Expression skills in foreign languages
• English language, when dealing with head office
• Frecnh speaker will be an advantage