Production Manager

Company Overview:
Coherent Corp. is a global leaders in datacenter and communications industries. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, USA, and founded in 1971, Coherent operates in over 20 countries worldwide. Since entering Vietnam in 2005, Coherent has expanded to over 2,400 employees across Binh Duong (VSIP1), Dong Nai (Nhon Trach 1), Hanoi, and Bac Ninh (Yen Phong IP). As part of our global growth strategy and commitment to local talent development, we aim to create over 4,000 new job opportunities in Vietnam within the next five years.
Business Title: Manager, Production
Work Location: VSIP1 (HCMC, formerly Binh Duong).
BASIC FUNCTION OF THE JOB:
The Production Manager will provide end-to-end production management leadership across assembly processes, industrialization, and high-volume manufacturing transfers. Strong background in planning and executing production ramp-up for high-volume, high-precision products. Skilled in risk mitigation, yield improvement, and scrap reduction during rapid scale-up. Experience in hiring and training a workforce of hundreds of employees within tight timelines.
1. Production Management
• Manage and deploy resources (human, machinery, materials, energy) efficiently to meet the production schedule.
• Deliver products/services committed to the internal or external customers at the right time, cost, quality, and responsiveness to support their plans
• Submit budget, control the performance to ensure the budget (headcount, productivity, overtime, absenteeism & expense) is met
• Leadership responsibility for strategic and tactical
manufacturing planning, quality improvement, cost
reductions, productivity, and process improvements,
equipment and automation development and growth
and profitability
• Lead production team to review forecast and sales order on ERP to plan for short- and long-term consumable, tooling and headcount.
• Support facility upgrade and layout change to be suitable for short- and long-term operation
2. Quality Control & Production Support
• Understand sufficiently and correctly products requirements.
• Compliance with the quality control plan, system from end-to-end process to ensure product quality meets customer requirements
• Investigate to support responding quickly and accurately, effectively to customers
• QMS Compliance.
• Provide coaching and training to the team for solving problems on time and select right solution
3. Supervision, Management and Leadership
• Ensure your team is staffed, motivated, inspired, engaged, and empowered to deliver a high and sustainable performance level in an ever-changing environment at a cost level the organization can sustain and reflects market realities.
• Ensure you have the right people in the right jobs by consistently using proper interview and selection techniques and methodologies throughout your organization.
• Ensure a learning environment is in place and your team is trained and developed to consistently achieve your organization's expectations in both the short and long terms.
• Ensure the performance management is fully operating with meaningful stretch goals for all employees in your organization, that feedback is ongoing and focused on development and is delivered with 100% On Time Delivery.
• Ensure a free flow of two-way information for your organization to work effectively and communication channels are active and open.