W Talent Manufacturing is supporting a leading manufacturing company based in Leicestershire who are now looking to recruit a highly talented Production Manager to drive manufacturing and OTIF improvements across the site. My client is dedicated to delivering a high-quality service to customers worldwide and have recently gone through a strong growth period over the past 2 years.
Key Responsibilities:
- You will be accountable for shift performance, including KPI deliverables covering safety, quality, productivity, and cost.
- Managing the Production department and safely achieving the plant operational targets within budget.
- Developing and maintaining engaged production teams to ensure that people, processes, and plants are continuously improving and optimized.
- Input to the Site Operational strategy to ensure optimisation of the people, plant, and processes.
- Freedom to act within the role's responsibilities and budgets and set communication principles, as agreed with the Operations Manager.
- Drive a culture of Health and Safety, ensuring that all accidents are adequately investigated.
- Manage and enable all Risk Assessments and Standard Operating Instructions to be reviewed and updated as per the agreed review timescale, or when a change is required.
- Develop and communicate the manufacturing plan to the team.
- Define clear metrics for each manufacturing area and ensure that all Production Team Leaders drive improvement in those metrics through regular reviews and the agreement of key actions.
- Create ownership within each production department with the goal of each area being self-managed (people management, planning, and continuous improvement) by the team leaders.
- Drive standards on the shopfloor through regular review and target setting to achieve the objectives and results required.
- Work with the Process Engineering Manager and the Quality and Development Manager to optimise formulations and support technical and aesthetic developments.
- Empower, engage, manage, organise, and develop the department, Team leaders and their team members, in a safe working environment with optimal working conditions.
Key Requirements:
To apply for the Shift Production Manager position based in Leicester, you will ideally have 5+ years of managerial or supervisory experience with the ability and desire to work 6am - 2pm Monday to Friday. Other requirements include;
- Strong leadership skills and focused on training & development of production employees.
- Technical Competence and understanding of Production Machinery would be an advantage.
- Ability to work in a manufacturing industry and the pressures associated with high-volume manufacturing.
- Excellent people manager with change management experience, ideally from a unionised environment.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, including data analysis.
- Capable of allowing and empowering teams to create their scope and direction.
- Able to manage, direct, engage, and drive a diverse group often with conflicting interests to achieve a common goal.
What's on Offer:
- Monday to Friday, 6am - 2pm.
- Salary up to £45k DOE
- 33 days holiday
- Enhanced company pension
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Private medical
- Life assurance