Education programmes of job
Nature of work
The exact nature of the work depends on whether the job will be in organizations or industrial projects.The production line manager's main tasks are:
- Making sure that products are produced on time and are according to specific standards.
- Setting and monitoring the production schedules.
- Estimating the production cost.
- Setting the quality standards and monitoring their implementation in the project.
Monitoring employees' performance on product lines.
Production line manager can also be responsible for the following minor tasks:
- Providing consultant services in his/her job field.
- Updating total quality standards in the project.
- Reviewing workers' performance and determine their training needs with the corporation of human resources management.
- Ensuring that health and safety guidelines' are followed.
Environment of work
- Production line manager tends to divide his/ her work between administrative offices and the production floor.
- Practicing this work does not require to stay for nine hours in your office because sometimes you may have to work according to shifts system specially in the early stages of this career.
- Developing in this career requires to extend his/her work hours daily especially if there are tight deadlines to be met (charismas or high seasons).
- Product line manager tends to practice his/her career with a big team work, and sometimes he/she needs to work alone (in consulting area).
- Practicing this career may require travel for a short time away from home especially if there are any opportunities to purchase equipment from international suppliers.
Professional life
- Production line managers can practice their career with a team or alone in private/public sectors.
- Good experience in their career can provide production line managers a good opportunity to develop in projects and organizations generally.
- Average salaries for production line managers with a few years of experience in public sector more than 20000 SP
- Production line manager needs to know or to have a good experience and knowledge mainly in all administrative specializations.
Getting the job
- Practicing this work is available to all graduates from economic faculty (BA department)
- Students in BA department must have good knowledge in the following subjects: Business Administration, Operations Management, Human Resources Management, Total Quality Management, Logistic Management, Operation Research, Financial Institutions Management, Service Institutions Management, and Managerial Information Systems
Skills
Production line manager should have general skills as following:-Good knowledge in machines types and equipment.
-Ability to understand new concepts and implement them.
-Ability to understand other departments' needs that are related to production directly.
-Ability to meet health and safety guidelines' in general.
-Ability to make feasibility studies.
Moreover, production line manager must have some personal skills such as
- Excellent ability to communicate and negotiate
- Ability to work with a team with different specializations.
- Ability to work under pressure to achieve the required goals.
- Good knowledge in career rules and its manners.
- Excellent management time.
Sources and references
- Arabic Job description 2008: alolabor.org
- www.prospects.ac.uk
Summary
Production line managers mainly tend to set production strategies and monitor their implementation in production floor. Setting quality standards is also part of their tasks.Production line managers tend to monitor workers' performance, and they work hardly to ensure that production produced according to production timetables and on time. Their roles mainly begin before the beginning of the production stage and may extend to control and monitor stages.