industrial production manager
Code 1321.2.1
The industrial production manager (jefe de planta o jefe de producción) delivers the manufacturing plan: volume, quality, OEE, safety and plant cost. Use this Job Dictionary profile to define plant leadership for manufacturing or process industry.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- industrial engineering
- cleaning industry health and safety measures
- manufacturing processes
Skills and competences
- liaise with industrial professionals
- adjust production schedule
- check material resources
- control financial resources
- create manufacturing guidelines
- manage supplies
- manage resources
- plan health and safety procedures
- oversee production requirements
Transversal competences
- meet deadlines
- define quality standards
- assess impact of industrial activities
- manage budgets
- manage staff
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- oversee assembly operations
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What to assess for this role
Assess floor discipline, safety, continuous improvement and shift leadership.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a production / plant manager do?
- Turns demand into a production schedule, secures resources and owns plant efficiency and quality.
- Is it the same as operations?
- In industrial plants they sometimes overlap; production is the manufacturing core, operations can be broader.
- What to measure when hiring?
- Safety and productivity results, shift conflict handling and decisions under equipment failure.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences