Production Manager

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Basic information
Job role
Production Management
Career level
Director (10-20 years)
Keywords
Production Manager - Lighting Industry
Description
  • Coordinate manufacturing timelines across automated and semi-automated facilities to ensure custom chandeliers and retail orders are completed on time.
  • Manage factory floor personnel, schedules shifts, and assigns technicians to specific specialized stations like welding, CNC wire forming, or electro-plating.
  • Partner with procurement teams to track inventory levels of diverse raw materials, ensuring metals, glass, wood, ceramic, and marble are available when needed.
  • Establishe rigorous testing protocols to check that bespoke and retail lighting fixtures meet international safety, structural, and aesthetic standards.
  • Oversee preventive maintenance programs for heavy factory machinery, pressing molds, and coating equipment to minimize unexpected downtime.
  • Analyze factory floor layouts and assembly lines to eliminate production bottlenecks, reduce waste, and increase overall manufacturing efficiency.
  • Enforce strict local and international workplace safety regulations (OSHA standards) to maintain a zero-accident environment on the 23,500 sqm factory floor.
  • Monitor operational costs, tracks labor expenses, and manages material scrap rates to keep production strictly within the company's financial targets.
  • Work directly with the Design and Engineering teams to evaluate if new, complex custom lighting blueprints are physically and financially viable to manufacture.
  • Gather daily production output data, monitors defect rates, and delivers performance reports to executive leadership regarding factory throughput.

 

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Production Engineering.
  • 8 - 10 years of progressive manufacturing or factory floor experience within the same industry.
  • Familiarity with CNC forming, welding, electro-plating, and molding.
  • Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 and local safety compliance laws.
  • Strong problem-solving skills to handle machine downtime or material delays.
  •  Excellent skills to bridge the gap between executives and factory workers.
Company information
Industry
Lighting Industry
Area
6th of October City