Production Manager

  • Job Reference: JB-62
  • Date Posted: 27 August 2024
  • Recruiter: Archers Recruitment
  • Location: Marlborough, Wiltshire
  • Salary: £50,000 to £60,000
  • Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

The principal responsibility of this role is to ensure that products are manufactured and delivered to the market place effectively, efficiently, safely, on-time, to specification and in a cost-effect manner in order that the company continues to be a leading manufacturer in its core area. 

To work in close collaboration with the Operations Manager to achieve the following: 

  • To manage the manufacturing team, including the mentoring and development of colleagues. 
  • Contribute and implement the rolling strategic plan for manufacturing. 
  • Be responsible for Health, Safety and Environment for the manufacturing process in conjunction with the EHS Manager and Operations Manager.
  • Set and manage performance targets for direct reports in order that there is a clear line of sight to the company vision - 100% OTIF
  • Interface with other functions including R&D, Customer Care, Commercial, Finance and HR to deliver outcome focused solutions to business challenges. 
  • Contribute to the development of the business to deliver quality products and processes.  
  • Deliver continuously improving service and quality improvements.
  • To co-ordinate with Engineering to ensure PM and FM services are facilitated in accordance with requirements.  

Essential skills and experience:

  • Strong problem solving skills that enable sound business judgement and decision making
  • Experience of supply chain management
  • Manufacturing Engineering (including Standard Operations, plant layout, waste elimination, continuous improvement, engineering change control). 
  • Demonstrate Lean Manufacturing experience in batch and continuous manufacturing. 
  • Confident communication, influencing, negotiation and assertiveness skills 
  • Broad engineering technical skills and knowledge of implementation across a wide range of industries.  
  • Quality management that delivers to customer requirements.  
  • Project management and change management.
  • Report writing and presentation skills.
  • Meeting and exceeding performance measures and continuous improvement KPI's.
  • Delivering projects safely, on-time, to budget and to specification.
  • Creating and delivering the Manufacturing plan to budget. 
  • Ensuring delivery of best in class service and quality to pre-defined standards.

Essential qualifications:

  • Educated to degree level, or equivalent, with relevant experience as defined below.
  • NEBOSH or working towards desirable. 
  • Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt or relevant problem solving experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience working directly in a Manufacturing environment

Desirable Skills:

  • Cap-Ex justification and delivery
  • Continuous Improvement initiatives
  • Team Building fulfilment 

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