Head Of Production

6 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Advanced Navigation Full time

Advanced Navigation is one of the world's most ambitious innovators in AI robotics and navigation technology across land, air, sea and space. While our main headquarters are in Sydney, we have multiple research facilities in Australia and sales offices around the world. Since 2011, the company has experienced great success and has progressed into several deep, new technologies. Our fields of expertise include underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.

The Head of Production will lead growing Production Teams in Sydney and Perth, who are accountable for the on-time delivery of all of Advanced Navigation's products.

This role requires an excellent communicator and a data-driven individual who can balance their time between strategic planning and hands-on support.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Manage the selection, training and development of Production Teams in Sydney and Perth, with culture and performance standards that are aligned to the needs of our business.
- Schedule Production work in line with the company's inventory strategy, to deliver quality products, on time and within budget.
- Manage the preventative maintenance, calibration, and storage of production equipment
- Measure, Monitor and Report Production KPIs weekly.
- Use production data to drive continuous improvement.
- Provide regular team updates to cross-functional stakeholders (ie weekly lead-time updates to sales operations, engineering issues slowing/delaying production, etc.)
- Partner with Production Engineering to ensure the workshop layout and production lines are efficient and effective.
- Partner with Production Engineering to ensure improvements, changes and/or new products that are introduced are resourced and managed appropriately, to ensure production volume and quality targets are met
- Engage Senior leadership and key stakeholders when additional resources and/or support is required.

**Required Skills and Experience**:

- 5+ years experience managing Production teams
- 5+ years direct exposure to a COTS Manufacturing Function
- Familiarity with IPC-A-610 and ISO 9001:2015
- Familiarity with an ERP tool, such as Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce or SAP.
- Familiarity with and/or exposure to robotics and complex manufacturing processes
- Strong leadership and analytical skills.
- Exposure to ISO 9001:2015
- The ability to manage a high volume of information and oversee multiple project schedules.
- Be highly motivated with an energetic, responsive and decisive disposition.
- Strong knowledge of WHS practices
- Proven high standard of attention to detail, time management and "follow-through"

**Nice to have**:

- 1-3 years experience managing a Profit & Loss Statement
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronic ideally)

**What are some of the benefits you will have access to?
Apart from the above you will be doing your life's best work in a large, fun office in central Sydney close to all public transportation, with coffee and breakfast provided, to keep you going throughout the day.

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