Reporting

This role reports directly to the COO and collaborates with:

• All Phibion Executive and Manager roles;

• All Phibion Technical and Sales Roles; and

• Customer Representatives, Government Representatives, Regulatory Agencies.

Position Matrix

The list below represents the required qualifications and desired experience:

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in manufacturing, mechatronics, heavy engineering, or other multi-disciplined technically oriented, continuous manufacturing activity, including management of teams

• A tertiary/diploma level qualification in Business, Manufacturing, Engineering, Science or Management is desired

• Solid understanding of Quality Management Systems

• Lean manufacturing experience

• Manufacturing experience with specific focus on continual improvement

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Organizational and time management experience

• Product Planning specifically with manufacturing experience to ensure within budget and on time

• In-depth knowledge of ERP or manufacturing systems

• Proven experience coaching and developing employees for success

• Ability to delegate and manage performance

Duties & Responsibilities

• Utilising exceptional planning skills, generating a short, medium and long-range production plan to analyse and balance capacity requirements

• Actively manage production to the production plan to ensure DIFOT metrics are achieved consistently. This includes alignment and integration of outsourced fabrication sub-assemblies

• Ensure manufacturing floor is in compliance with all legal regulations in the relevant jurisdictions and enthusiastically promotes a preventative injury and incident culture

• Supervise assembly, sourcing and shipping

• Where required, provide position descriptions, hire and train new staff members

• Deliver company production reports to the CEO and Phibion Borad of Directors as requited

• Liaising, estimating and advising of lead-times with customers

• Ongoing systems and process improvements

• Assisting with dispatch of finished goods and incoming goods

• Report on hot progress to management

• Forecasting and ordering raw materials

• Produce and maintain QA documentation

• Maintaining inventory control

• Managing staff to meet deadlines and production flow

• Proactively identify equipment bottlenecks and source effectively to meet the production schedule

• Conduct regular reviews to solve problems, balance multiple priorities or identity and report potential delays and risks as early as possible

• Lead, organize and conduct fortnightly production meetings

• Timely reporting of issues, potential delays, and risks

• Actively participate and ensure appropriate production representation and all design reviews

• Utilise lean manufacturing principles to raise, evaluate and down-select products and process improvement ideas

• Manage sub-contractors to provide high quality services and products

• Be a team player

• Have Phibion Values in mind and comply with them

Role Expectations

The Phibion MudMaster is to be recognised not only for its technical excellence but also for quality fabrication. It is to be recognised as the finest machine of its type anywhere and by association lift the profile of Queensland and Australia and Australia as a centre of manufacturing excellence in this field.

• Establish and build a Manufacturing process within the Phibion Brisbane
  Assembly Facility to the highest quality within the available budget to satisfy
  customer needs.

• Develop an elastic manufacturing processes to support both rapid expansion
  and customer demands.

• Working with the Supply Coordinator to ensure inventory is kept ensuring
  minimal delays in production while maintaining a strict budget.

• Implement Phibion policies and procedures and where needed develop
  necessary procedures for continuous improvement.

• Integrate Phibion systems with local cultural expectations to blend respect for
  local expectations with high-performance business expectations.

• Work closely with Phibion Engineering team to identify areas of improvement.

• Work closely with the Operations and Maintenance teams to provide timely and
  business critical sparing in accordance with operational needs,

• Ensure all reporting of all performance is accurate and transparent

• Represent the company at trade shows and identify new suppliers
  opportunities.

• Develop and maintain Procedures needed to support safe and consistent
  operational practice;

• Represent Phibion in technical papers, conferences, government reviews etc.
  as required to showcase the application and benefit of the technology;

• You will be required to travel and will require a valid passport. All reasonable
  travel expenses will be reimbursed by Phibion

Development Plan

• Additional International Business Management education

• Opportunities to move within the Phibion Group (other sites, countries) and into
  areas of new experiences ie. Operations or overseas Manufacturing