Description
Job Summary:
The Production Manager will lead, coordinate, and optimize production activities, ensuring compliance with quality, cost, timeline, and safety requirements within a growth-oriented context.
Key Highlights:
1. Leadership and management of production teams
2. Optimization of production activities and continuous improvement
3. Strategic management of production and inventory
We are a company headquartered in Fundão, Castelo Branco District, part of the international JST Group, with approximately 500 employees. ISOTRANSFO specializes in manufacturing insulating components for electric transformers—designed, produced, and marketed by the Group for power and railway networks worldwide.
As part of strengthening our organizational structure, we are recruiting a Production Manager.
Role Mission
Reporting directly to Management, the Production Manager assumes a central role in the industrial organization, ensuring fulfillment of production commitments regarding quality, costs, timelines, and safety, within a context of sustained operational growth.
Responsibilities
\- Lead, coordinate, and develop production teams (middle management and operational staff), ensuring authority, motivation, and alignment with company objectives
\- Structure and optimize production activities, implementing and monitoring performance indicators (KPIs) such as productive hours, waste rate, among others
\- Define daily and weekly production targets and ensure their follow-up
\- Analyze deviations and identify operational issues, guaranteeing implementation of effective solutions in collaboration with teams
\- Maintain strong on-site presence, supporting teams in problem resolution and handling unforeseen situations
\- Carry out detailed production planning in coordination with the planning technician
\- Manage raw material inventory, ensuring availability and strict control
\- Ensure compliance with quality requirements (ISO 9001\) and lead continuous improvement initiatives (Lean Manufacturing)
\- Assess and develop team and middle-management competencies, conducting performance evaluation interviews
\- As a member of the management team, contribute to defining and implementing ISOTRANSFO’s strategic objectives and projects
Profile
\- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Management or Engineering
\- Professional experience in team management or production management
\- Proficiency in French (mandatory)
\- Leadership and communication skills
\- Analytical ability and critical thinking
\- Strong organizational sense and rigor
\- Knowledge of occupational safety
Behavioral Competencies (Soft Skills)
\- Strong leadership and people management capability
\- Clear, assertive, and effective communication
\- High analytical, planning, and problem-solving capacity
\- Organization, rigor, and results orientation
\- Strong sense of commitment and organizational engagement
Offered Conditions
Base monthly salary above market average
Unscheduled working hours allowance: 20% of base salary
Working hours: 08:30 – 17:30 (1-hour lunch break)
Employment type: Full-time, on-site
Meal allowance: €9.50/day (meal card)
Quarterly performance bonus
Permanent contract with a 6-month probationary period
To apply, please send your professional CV to: recrutamento\_iso@hotmail.com with subject line: RESP\_PROD
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
* Meal card/ticket
* Health insurance
Work Location: On-site