Assistant Manager - Production

Role & responsibilities

We are looking for a Assistant Manager - Production to manage assembly line operations and overall shop-floor production activities. The role involves achieving production targets, ensuring product quality, optimizing manpower utilization, maintaining safety standards and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The candidate should have hands-on experience in assembly operations, production planning and managing blue-collar employees in a manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, monitor and achieve daily production targets as per the production plan and delivery schedules.
• Supervise assembly line operations and ensure smooth workflow across production activities.
• Allocate manpower effectively and manage blue-collar employees and contract labour to achieve productivity targets.
• Monitor assembly processes, material availability, line balancing and work-in-progress (WIP) to ensure uninterrupted production.
• Ensure adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), work instructions, quality standards and safety guidelines.
• Identify and resolve shop-floor issues, production bottlenecks and process deviations in coordination with Quality, Maintenance, Materials and other cross-functional teams.
• Monitor production performance indicators, including productivity, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), rejection rates and delivery adherence.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives such as Kaizen, 5S, waste reduction and process optimization.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to address recurring production and quality issues.
• Train and develop operators on assembly processes, standard work practices, safety and multi-skilling.
• Maintain production reports, shift handover records and other relevant documentation.
• Ensure proper utilization of manpower, materials and equipment to achieve cost, quality and delivery objectives.

Educational Qualification & Experience

• B.E/B.Tech in Mechanical, Automobile or EEE Engineering.
• 410 years of experience in production or manufacturing operations.
• Hands-on experience in assembly line operations and overall production management in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in handling blue-collar employees and contract workforce.
• Knowledge of production planning, quality systems, safety practices and continuous improvement methodologies.