Position: Production Manager
Department: Production
Reporting To: Repair Station Manager
Location: Dublin
Overall Responsibility
Our client, a thriving aviation company, is looking for a proactive Production Manager to manage their engine repair operations. You’ll lead a talented team, optimise processes, and ensure compliance with rigorous safety and quality standards. This role offers the chance to be a key player in a forward-thinking company that supports continuous improvement and professional development.
Job Description
- Manages the production team for products primarily on-site maintenance of engines for Engine Services in Dublin
- Develops in concert with the company network improved work-specifications to maximise value from labour, tooling and processes while reducing cost of non-quality, test cell rejects and potential warranty exposure.
- Introduces and maintains processes, equipment and supplies that assure efficient and effective processing of job cards, materials and planning to perform the on-site repair of engines
- Provision of tools, equipment and materials associated with the maintenance tasks undertaken by production
- Ensuring sufficient manpower resources are available to perform scheduled maintenance activity
- Integrates and collaborates with the company’s worldwide network to develop a successful global network
- Facilitates the training of mechanics to support the production ramp-up capacity plan
- Provides leadership for Production Team leaders / Supervisors and employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training, and development.
- Provides leadership for problem resolution to facilitate continuous improvements and improved working relationships
- Integrates and collaborates with the company’s worldwide network to develop a successful global network
- Measures performance to company goals and standards including production cost budgetary goals
- Ensures compliance with worthiness, environmental, health and safety directives
- Meets contractual turn-times as agreed with EOC
- Complies with all company policies, procedures and safety requirements
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications / Skills
- An Engineering degree (preferably Mechanical / Production Management) or Maintenance Engineers license or equivalent alternative educational background
- Post graduate qualification in Production Planning and / or Lean Production Systems desirable
- Strong leadership skills to lead and motivate production team to achieve agreed goals
- Highly structured with excellent planning and organisational skills
- Ability to understand complex processes involving multiple disciplines
- Strong analytical / problem solving skills in a team environment
- Highly developed and impactful communication style with extensive experience, both verbal and written as well as competent report writing skills
- Must be self-driven with excellent collaborative working skills with the leadership team to achieve the agreed business goals
- Ability to work on own initiative with strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Results orientated with a strong Quality ethos
- Strong IT & Digital skills an advantage
Experience
- Minimum of 10 years experience working in production planning / engineering / leadership roles
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading a production team
- Extensive experience working in a highly regulated environment, preferably in aviation
- Experience with Application of digitalisation to improve business processes
- Proven track record in problem solving in complex environment
Flexibility
- Availability to deal with urgent issues outside normal hours
- Availability for business travel as required
If you are living in Ireland and hold a VALID WORK PERMIT, we would love to hear from you, if however, you do not hold a valid work permit unfortunately we will not be in a position to assist you with your job search.
Skills:
Engineering Expertise, Production Planning and Lean Systems Knowledge, Regulatory Compliance
