Overview

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

What’s the job?

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)
• Map out Critical to Production (CTP) from the input of Critical to Quality (CTQ)
• Execute PPQ activities and measure the results.
• Follow up PPQ actions till close.
• Execute the Production Process Improvement for Leadtime (PPIT)
• 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
• Follow up the action planed implemented in factory.
• Execute the Production Process Improvement for Capacity (PPIC)
• Based on the input and request from Supply Chain or Sourcing/Group Buyer, conduct the PPIC projects and/or Capacity Stress Test.
• Follow up and execute PPIC projects in factories.
• Execute the Production Review and Optimization (PRO)
• Based on the needs from business, execute the PRO activity for new products.
• 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
• Provided manufacturing/production capability of factories and limitations
• Provided manufacturing/production cost of factories
• Support the engineer to implement design to manufacturer process

What you’ll bring

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)