Assistant Factory Manager

Join an award-winning team shaping the future of workplace design! At Conexus Studio , we design more than just workplaces. We create environments that inspire, connect, and elevate. Our award-winning team of commercial interior design and build professionals is passionate about shaping the future of work through creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Read more about our team and culture: www.conexus.sg/our-team . We’re looking for an experienced Assistant Factory Manager to support the day-to-day management and delivery of our factory operations. This role is suited to a technically strong and solutions-oriented individual with hands-on experience in carpentry, joinery, and fabrication, who can effectively coordinate production, materials, technical requirements, and quality standards. Working closely with the Factory Director and production teams, you will play a key role in driving productivity, resolving challenges, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the required standards. What you’ll be doing: Production Planning, Progress Tracking and Reporting • Timeline Management: Monitor and track weekly production progress against planned schedules and project timelines to ensure key milestones are achieved. • Roadblock Resolution: Identify production bottlenecks, including material shortages, technical issues or information gaps and coordinate timely solutions to minimise delays. • Weekly Coordination: Conduct regular progress meetings with the Production Coordinator and Carpenter Leads to review targets, address challenges, and align on priorities. • Management Reporting: Prepare and submit weekly production reports to the Factory Director, highlighting progress, key performance indicators, outstanding issues, and potential risks. Document Control and Technical Revisioning • Drawing Management: Review, organize, index, and maintain proper version control of all incoming construction and production drawings, ensuring both digital and physical records are accurately maintained. • Drawing Distribution: Ensure the latest approved drawings and revisions are communicated and distributed promptly to the respective Carpenter Leads and production teams to minimize errors and rework. • Cost Monitoring: Identify drawing revisions that may affect material requirements, or labor hours, and highlight such changes to the Factory Director for commercial review and cost tracking. Material Procurement and Inventory Monitoring • PR Verification: Check all procurement requests against project material specifications to ensure technical accuracy and minimal material wastage. • Procurement Execution: Handle the procurement of raw materials, hardware, fittings, and other specialized items required for production, ensuring materials are available in line with project schedules. • Long-Lead Monitoring: Track long-lead and critical materials from order through delivery, escalating potential delays early to prevent disruption to production and assembly schedules. Technical Expertise and Production Support • Technical Guidance: Provide technical guidance and practical expertise in carpentry, joinery, and custom fittings. Support production teams in resolving technical and fabrication-related challenges. • Quality Assurance: Ensure all construction elements meet high aesthetic standards and structural requirements. • Problem Solving: Address construction challenges by providing creative and practical solutions for complex designs. People and Factory Operations • Team Supervision: Provide day-to-day supervision and direction to Carpenter Leads and production personnel, ensuring teams are aligned with production priorities, project requirements, and quality expectations. • Productivity and Performance: Monitor team productivity and work progress against planned targets. Identify performance gaps and work with the relevant team leads to implement improvements. • Work Allocation & Coordination: Coordinate the allocation of production tasks and ensure clear communication between Carpenter Leads, production personnel, and other relevant teams to maintain an efficient workflow. • Discipline & Workplace Standards: Support the Factory Director in maintaining appropriate workplace discipline, attendance, housekeeping, and adherence to company policies and operational procedures. • Factory Housekeeping: Ensure production areas, workstations, tools, and materials are properly organized and maintained to promote a safe, efficient, and productive working environment. • Operational Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve production processes, workflow efficiency, manpower utilization, and overall factory productivity. Administrative and Safety Compliance • Safety Documentation: Prepare and submit the required administrative and safety documentation, including worker name list, Risk Assessments, Safe Work Procedures (SWPs) and Method Statements. • Regulatory Compliance: Assist the Factory Director in ensuring factory operations comply with applicable Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) regulations, statutory requirements, and company safety policies. • Safety and Operational Standards: Support the implementation and maintenance of safe working practices and operational standards across the factory. Requirements: • Minimum 2 years' experience in factory/ production operations, preferably within carpentry, joinery, interior fit-out, or the Design & Build industry. • Diploma or Degree in Carpentry, Interior Design, Construction, Engineering or equivalent. • Experience in production coordination, workshop/factory supervision, or carpentry/joinery project executive will be added advantage. • Good knowledge of materials, hardware, fittings, and fabrication processes, with an understanding of material and labor requirements. • Familiar with Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) requirements and safety documentation is preferred. • Able to lead and coordinate production team…