Workshop Manager Decoration & Polishing (M/F)

Workshop Manager Decoration & Polishing (M/F)? Management & Industrial Performance

Job Summary

As a field leader and operational strategist, you take charge of a key workshop dedicated to polishing and exceptional finishing. Leading an organisation of 60 employees, you oversee industrial performance (KPI, Lean Management) while providing direct operational support to Management. You embody the bridge between the very high standards of luxury watch decoration and the continuous optimisation of production flows.

Your main duties
Team Management & Leadership: Animate, structure and develop a team of around 60 people. Encourage engagement, versatility and skills development in a spirit of collective performance.

Performance Management & KPIs: Define, analyse and monitor key indicators (Quality, Costs, Deadlines). Develop and deploy associated corrective and preventive action plans.

Strategic & Operational Support to Management: Act as a privileged partner to industrial management by ensuring precise monitoring of workloads/capacities and strict adherence to delivery commitments.

Quality Excellence & Watch Decoration: Ensure compliance with manufacturing standards on high-end components (mastery of requirements related to sunburst finishing, Geneva stripes, stretching, smoothing, etc.) and reduce non-quality costs.

Operational Excellence & Lean Management: Lead continuous improvement initiatives (Lean Manufacturing, 5S, QRQC, Kaizen projects) to streamline flows and optimise workshop ergonomics and productivity.

Safety & Environment: Ensure compliance with HSE standards and promote a proactive culture of improving working conditions.

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Your profile & skills
Education: Engineering degree (HES, EPF) or ES Technician in mechanics, microtechnology, industrialisation or industrial engineering.

Experience: Proven track record in workshop or production sector management in the high-end watchmaking sector. An excellent knowledge of finishing and aesthetic decoration trades (Geneva stripes, sunburst finishing, bevelling, perlage) is essential.

Large-scale management: Successful and demonstrable experience in managing and leading large teams (50 to 70 employees).

Lean & KPI mastery: Strong practice of continuous improvement tools, problem-solving and production management based on numerical data.

Tools: Proficient in common industrial ERPs and the Office suite.

Language: Perfect command of French (spoken and written)