Production Manager

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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