Staff

The person we are going to focus on in the production area is Dave McGibbon.

Dave is joint production manager. Dave is responsible for five different areas of production. Dave is a tremendous ballooning enthusiast, he enjoys working in all areas of the sport and has spent much of his working life working for Cameron's.

• Graphic Design
  • Graphic design has 4 people working in it
  • Dave's main contact here is Chris Leaman
  • The picture shows David Reed using a CAD package
  
  
• Plotting
  • Craig Moore is in charge of the plotting of balloons and has trained up several members of staff, for instance, Katherine pictured here.
  
  
  
• Planning
  • Planning has 2 people working there
  • The main person that Dave liaises with is Andrew Futter
  
  
• Artwork
  • The artwork section has 3 people in it
  • The main person that Dave liaises with is Ian Lewis
    

For a bit more about the "span of control" and "organisation charts" why not look at the human resource management worksheet?

Dave is a tremendous enthusiast about balloons and all aspects of ballooning and has spent much of his working life working for Cameron's.

Dave's time each day is split between various areas, including:

• costing artworks for new visuals that will become hot air balloons
• day to day management of production and ensuring that the process carries on as efficiently as possible
• scheduling
• planning
• looking after his staff - resolving problems, introducing ideas from experience, monitoring their work, planning schedules and so on
• research and development in the fabric and artwork techniques

What should Dave's main priorities for each day be?