Finishing Manager

**Date**:1 Oct 2024

**Location**: VN

**Company**:Coats

**Role Purpose**
- To manage the continuous improvement activities in finishing department to realize best practices and to provide high quality products and services.- To build up a high performing team to deliver the finishing objectives, including safety, service, sustainability, quality and cost control.**Principal Accountabilities and Key Activities**
- [Focus on 4 - 6 main accountability areas with up to 4 activities for each]- **Safety & Housekeeping**
- Create a proactive Health & Safety culture to ensure our people come to work and return home safely by:
- Ensure the company Health & Safety policy is fully implemented within own area of responsibility.
- Foster a proactive Health & Safety culture by raising employee awareness and proactively searching and fixing potential hazards.
- Demonstrate a visible leadership by walking the floor, communicating Health & Safety best practices and leading by example.
- Be responsible for Health & Safety of the team and embrace “journey to zero” initiatives.
- **Quality**
- Increase customer satisfaction by delivering high quality products through:
- Ensure that all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs) are up to date and well trained to all relevant operators.
- Ensure all SOPs and WIs are followed properly through routine quality awareness enhancement and monitoring.
- Carry out root cause analysis along with actions to reduce both internal and external quality complaints.
- **Productivity and Service**
- Drive continuous improvement culture to deliver the productivity and service objectives by:
- Use IE standards for manning enough headcounts to meet monthly output plan while minimizing working hours
- Ensure winding machine speeds are optimized to deliver as high output as possible with minimum breakdown
- Through process optimization, WIP and FIFO management to reduce the Manufacturing Lead-times
- Daily monitor and improve delivery performance in order to minimize delayed orders.
- **Sustainability**
- Pioneer a sustainable future by:
- Proactively generate new ideas to reduce total wastes, energy and water consumptions in order to deliver our sustainability goals.
- Minimize non thread wastes including lubricant, MUM, plastics and cleaning cloths by encouraging reusing, reducing and recycle.
- Deliver thread waste target by reducing over-make and coordinating with dyehouse to ensure good quality thread and with engineering to minimize broken spindles.
- **People management**
- Create a high performing team capable of contributing to continuous improvements and succession planning through:
- Set up and communicate SMART objectives to subordinates
- Timely feedback, monitor and evaluate performance of subordinates to improve working morale
- Carry out skill gap analysis for key subordinates and then create and implement appropriate individual development plans (IDP)
- Ensure internal labour regulations are understood by all subordinates and followed properly

**Education, Qualifications and Experience**

Essential
- Desirable**Knowledge and Understanding of**:

- Growth mindset
- Project Management

**Experience**:

- College graduate or above and/or minimum 3 years management/ supervisory experience in manufacturing
- Exposure to change management processes

**Skills & Ability**:

- Good people management
- Good planning and organizing
- Communication effectiveness
- Problem solving techniques
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office tools
- Communicate fluently in English
- Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt.
- Technical knowledge and experience of lubrication and finishing.