Boart Longyear Hiring for Production Manager at North Bay, ON Full Time

Job Description:
An excellent opportunity has become available for a Production Manager with Boart Longyear Manufacturing in North Bay, Ontario. Boart Longyear is committed to high quality, safety, environmental and continuous improvement practices. Applicants should be able to demonstrate shared values in this area.

This is a full-time role and hours of work will be 8:00am – 4:30pm Monday to Friday.

The Company

Boart Longyear has been a leading provider of drilling services and products to the global resource industry for over 130 years. As a result of the company’s continued growth, an excellent opportunity has become available for suitably qualified candidates to join the Boart Longyear Manufacturing team.

The Global Drilling Services division operates for a diverse mining customer base spanning a wide range of commodities, including copper, gold, nickel, zinc, uranium and other metals and minerals. The Global Products division designs, manufactures and sells drilling equipment, performance tooling, down-hole instrumentation and parts and services.

Boart Longyear is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA with operations around the globe in 40 countries with 5,000 employees. We are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney, Australia (ASX:BLY). More information about Boart Longyear can be found at www.boartlongyear.com . To get Boart Longyear news direct, follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn and Facebook .

The Role

The Production Manager must ensure that goods and services are produced efficiently; that they are of the right quality, quantity, and cost; and that they are produced on time, to the satisfaction of our internal and external customers. The scope of the job includes process production and batch production using LEAN concepts to ensure waste elimination.

Duties and responsibilities

The production manager is involved with the planning, coordination and control of industrial processes and also responsible for both human and material resources. The role will be involved in both the pre-production (planning) stage as well as the production (control and supervision) stage. A large part of production management involves dealing with people, particularly those who work in your team.

The role is involved with product design and purchasing. In this position you will have to make many of the decisions yourself, but in the organization work with production planners, controllers, production engineers and production supervisors who will assist you on a day-to-day basis.

Typical work activities include:
Communicate and implement change as directed

Lead a unionized environment

Health and safety compliance in accordance with company policy

Provide leadership by establishing clear expectations and demonstrating high standards of work practices and safety conscious behavior.

Establish, maintain and promote high standards of customer service.

Experience working within policies and procedures and understanding of compliance.

Ensure compliance with Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) procedures and practices.

Supervision of all staff under your direct or indirect control.

Administration duties as required to ensure daily KPI performance is achieved.

All resources are utilized efficiently.

Train and monitor staff in standard operating procedures (SOP) and safe work practices, including new employee inductions and tool box talks.

Continuously monitor the performance and activities of the manufacturing process through the use of KPIs, with a primary focus on capacity utilization

Implement and maintain Lean Principles

Develop the production team towards becoming autonomous Kaizen teams – capable of maintaining and improving their process daily

Standardize and sustain the lean organization structure for production team through Tier Meetings, Team Boards, Standard Work, Visual Controls & Gemba Walk

Follow the Standard Work for Production Manager and set an example for Supervisors to react quickly to alerts signaled by the team members and implement necessary improvements for KPI deviations

Use of A3 Report and Problem-Solving tools to manage the cost-savings and downtime reduction projects as part of plant’s overall strategy in improving the value delivered to customers

Ensure the strategic projects identified are executed such as cellular layout, plant leveling, lead time reduction.

Required Skills and Experience :
The successful candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

5+ years of directly related experience

Project management skills

Leadership and interpersonal skills

Experience with LEAN manufacturing and its concepts

Experience working with a unionized work force

The successful candidate must also be able to handle responsibility and the pressure of meeting deadlines.

Reporting Relationship

The position reports directly to the Plant Manager in North Bay.

Perks, Benefits and Compensation

We know that talented people are attracted to companies with long term success, an amazing culture. We also know you want a company that provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits and outstanding career advancement opportunities. We offer:

Strong compensation plan

Competitive Benefit program (Life, Disability, Health & Dental)

Defined Contribution Pension Plan

Robust Vacation Program

As part of our commitment to create a diverse and inclusive workplace, Boart Longyear seeks to have a diverse candidate shortlist for this vacancy. Applications are strongly encouraged from experienced women and men, people with disabilities, and indigenous and ethnically diverse candidates

Boart Longyear welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process as per the guidelines of the Accessibilities for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we thank all who apply but will only be contacting those selected for an interview. Please apply online at https://careers.boartlongyear.com/

Auto req ID: 12066BR

Job Code: 120003 Manager 1.06.Manager

Function: Manufacturing

Region (Business Group): NAM

Country: Canada

State/Province: Ontario

City: North Bay