Production Lead

Kingfisher Sourcing Eastern Europe Sp. z o.o. is a buying office of the Kingfisher Group an international home improvement company with nearly 1 300 stores  across Europe, supported by a team of 78 000 professionals.  We are looking for candidates to join our team as Production Lead

Accountabilities 

Main Activities:

• Team Management : Manage the production engineer within the region, including training, performance review
• Strategy : Develop local production strategy according to product development, range and sourcing 3 years plan
• Reporting : Generate all local production related reports and monitoring performance, KPI’s
• Organization : Organize and schedule work assignments to achieve maximum efficiency and meet objectives

Responsibilities:

• Lead Production assessment for new suppliers/factories and launch technical comments for selection of new supplier/factory with related peer functions.
• Execute the Production Process Qualification (PPQ)
  1. Map out Critical to Production (CTP) from the input of Critical to Quality (CTQ)
  2. Execute PPQ activities and measure the results.
  3. Follow up PPQ actions till close.
• Execute the Production Process Improvement for Leadtime (PPIT)
  1. Based on the input and request from Sourcing or Quality or Supply Chain, Conduct the PPIT projects, measure and communicate the result in time with relevant stakeholders
  2. Follow up the action planed implemented in factory.
• Execute the Production Process Improvement for Capacity (PPIC)
  1. Based on the input and request from Supply Chain or Sourcing/Group Buyer, conduct the PPIC projects and/or Capacity Stress Test.
  2. Follow up and execute PPIC projects in factories.
• Execute the Production Review and Optimization (PRO)
  1. Based on the needs from business, execute the PRO activity for new products.
  2. Communicate with peers and related teams to execute PRO.

• Work in collaboration with the product engineer and provide all manufacturing details to develop the product in the most efficient way
  1. Provided manufacturing/production capability of factories and limitations
  2. Provided manufacturing/production cost of factories
  3. Support the engineer to implement design to manufacturer process

Required Skills & Experience

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experiences in Process Engineering or Industrial Engineering.
• Rich experience on the production process and the project experience on the in-line process improvement.
• Relevant experience on the in-line industrial engineering such as layout initial, single process station improvement or fixture design etc.
• Previous experience in implementing Lean concept into the production process or supply chain optimization.

Skills & Qualification

• Good understanding of manufacturing and production
• Strong ability on team management
• Proven ability on managing intercultural stakeholder
• Good understanding on process design and improve with minor change for production process.
• Be aware of Lean knowledge.
• Strong capability on analysis & problem solving
• Degree level in Engineering
• Experience in manufacturing/production
• Strong process expertise
• Preferred in implementing Lean projects into a factory environment
• Language: Advanced Level English

Note: This role is requesting a lot of travel and factory visit (average of 60% in factory)