Production Manager

Role overview

Production and workshop responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and supervise workshop production; coordinate schedules with project deadlines and deliveries.
• Review shop drawings, cutting lists, specifications, and production requirements; allocate manpower, machinery, tools, and materials.
• Supervise carpenters, joiners, machine operators, and finishing staff; monitor cutting, assembly, edge banding, sanding, polishing, and finishing.
• Ensure products meet approved dimensions, designs, and quality standards; inspect work before dispatch and installation.
• Coordinate with design, procurement, project, and installation teams.
• Monitor material consumption, minimize wastage, control costs, and address bottlenecks to improve efficiency.
• Maintain woodworking machinery, ensure safe operation, and uphold workshop safety and housekeeping.
• Maintain production reports, material records, manpower schedules, and delivery tracking.

Qualifications and experience

• Diploma or bachelor's degree in Wood Technology, Production Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Interior Design.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in joinery manufacturing, woodworking, or custom furniture production, including 3 to 4 years in a managerial or supervisory role.
• Deep familiarity with MDF, solid wood, plywood, veneers, and laminates.
• Proficiency in reading technical drawings and using ERP production software.
• Fluent in Arabic.

Required skills

• Joinery production planning, woodworking machinery, shop drawing interpretation, material optimization, manpower management, quality control, and production scheduling.

Pay

• AED 10,000 per month.

Work location

• Work is in person in Abu Dhabi.