Production Manager - Wellingborough, United Kingdom - Recruitment Agenda

Recruitment Agenda

Verified Company

Wellingborough, United Kingdom

5 hours ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Production Manager

Wellingborough

£45-£50k per annum + performance related bonus + company benefits

As the Production Manager for this site, you will lead a highly skilled team, totalling 28 employees, working closely with the Operations Director, you will have responsibility for the planning and optimising the output for the departments and teams includingBuild, Engineering, Print, and Stores.

This will include ensuring that all products and services required by their clients are delivered on time and to a fantastic quality, whilst maintaining the flexibility to react to contingency situations that frequentlyoccur in their industry.

The majority of their work is in the UK and EU where products are manufactured entirely in-house at their facility in Wellingborough.

They offer a complete one-stop-shop solution which includes custom builds to the client brief.

Multi-disciplinary productionmanagement experience is required for a dynamic environment and marketplace where every project is different, and seasonal peaks require agile thinking and flexibility synonymous with the industry.

Key responsibilities include:

To take ultimate responsibility for the daytoday activities of the production team whilst working with the Operations Director to create improvement plans to optimise capacity and utilisation.
To manage day to day facilities management and plant maintenance whilst also working with the Operations Director on new plant/facility investment ideas.
To proactively lead in the management and implementation of Health & Safety, Quality, and Environmental systems within the business, having contributed to the design of these with the Operations Director.
Mange all Production, Graphics & Warehouse including appraisals, pay negotiations, shift planning, recruitment & disciplinaries (supported my HR Manager)
To promptly and flexibly respond to the lastminute requests from internal and external stakeholders (that's events)
To work in conjunction with the Operations Director to ensure all legal compliance requirements are correctly dealt with.
To analyse production output in terms of speed, quality, and efficiency using this to formulate improvement strategies and plans.
To maximise output, particularly at peak seasonal periods, whilst keeping the team meaningfully busy during periods of lower output
To maintain and stock control our extensive hire inventory
To identify areas for improvement
To own the ERP data relating to BoM's and Routings
Form part of the R&D team, contributing ideas, managing prototyping, investigating new materials and researching new production methods/tools.
To contribute to the management team and broader plans for the business
To monitor workload and implement resource planning
To actively participate in internal and external meetings where attendance is required
To carry out any other reasonable managerial request including emergency onsite (event venue) attendance.

Experience & Skills required:

IOSH or NEBOSH certified
A proven track record in the management of a manufacturing team
Strong management skills, including the ability to implement and lead change
Working knowledge & experience of ERP / Production planning systems, and good Excel skills
Excellent organisational and time management skills