Director of Planning and Façade Production

About the job

Director of Planning and Façade Production

• Full-time

Company Description

A market leader in high-tech façades and metal construction in Switzerland with over 550 employees, Sottas SA is a reliable family business at the cutting edge of technology, placing people at its heart.

We are recognised for our know-how and our commitment to high standards in quality, deadlines, safety, and sustainable development.

Job Description

To ensure the planning and management of our Façade production, we are looking for our future director who will work closely with the execution directors and shared services, with main responsibilities including:

• Direct management of site managers (Bulle and Denges), who are themselves responsible for the full operational management of the workshops, and their coordination
• Planning the department's overall workload, in collaboration with the rest of the management (commercial, execution, and services)
• Managing subcontracting (decision-making, budget, organisation, compliance)
• Commercial development of production, including service offers according to our available capacity and optimisation of infrastructure utilisation
• Active participation in improvement and innovation projects
• Strategic management of production: defining and monitoring objectives, contributing to the company’s general interests, resource decisions, collaboration on investments

Qualifications

To meet this challenge, you are recognised for your pragmatic organisational skills. You are able to consider the specific aspects of project production ranging from unique pieces to prototyped series, ensuring the requirements of any manufacturing in terms of safety, quality, and deadlines. In this role at the centre of the company’s value chain, you live and promote collaboration with other sectors.

Decisively future-oriented, you always seek to improve production, whether in terms of skills, tools, technology, or use of resources (human, energy, material).

Your relevant and accurate analysis of the elements at play allows you to make decisions in the company’s interest and to react and adapt to expected or unexpected situations. For this, you demonstrate anticipation and consideration of all departments, and communicate clearly and transparently with the people and sectors involved.

Thanks to your teams, you are able to satisfy your internal clients in order to carry out Sottas projects and satisfy our external clients.

To ensure the technical role of the position, you possess the following characteristics:

• You are an expert in production environments, with a very good understanding of the supply chain, and experience in continuous improvement in a production context (such as lean management)
• You hold a production engineering degree or equivalent training
• You master common IT tools and have experience operating an ERP and/or MES

Additional Information

Do you want to flourish professionally, take on technical challenges, and participate in large-scale projects? We look forward to receiving your application (with diplomas and work certificates).

Only candidates matching the profile will receive a response.

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