Production Manager

Responsibilities & Required Skills

 Key Responsibilities and Duties 

• Responsible for ensuring the effective operation of the manufacturing teams.
• Deliver world-class quality products, whilst ensuring safety, quality and cost objectives are achieved. 
• Implement and deliver key manufacturing KPI’s by demonstrating continuous improvements across all areas. 
• Manage daily production teams and lead by example to foster a flexible and pro-active team culture.
• Work closely with other teams in the business to ensure overall efficiency of the department. 
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures – ensuring staff are suitably trained to meet operational standards. 
• Develop a culture which focuses on quality improvement. 
• Control Production schedules. 
• To hold responsibility for Health and Safety of the manufacturing processes and teams. 
• Establish strong working relations with other functional Managers. 
• Improve product build-times without sacrificing quality or accuracy. 
• Deliver an effective manufacturing operation. 
• Ensure best-practice manufacturing processes and procedures are adhered to.
• Identify and implement cost reduction activities, whilst maintaining quality and efficiency. 
• Oversee the Production Department to ensure all goods are manufactured to spec and plan. 
• Nurture and develop relationships both internally and externally.
• Ad-hoc project management within Production and Operations, ensuring company strategic requirements are achieved. 
• Work closely with other departments (Product Development, Procurement, Sales etc.) 
• Create departmental plans, targets, and deadlines.
• Execute strategies to improve efficiency and Customer Service. 

Key Performance Indicators 

• Ensure product quality is maintained and improved upon, with on-going ISO accreditation. 
• Maintain the efficiency of the manufacturing processes. 
• Provide on-time delivery performance. 
• Deliver improvement in workflows for in-feeds through to finished delivery to customers. 
• Increase productivity and production capabilities, without sacrificing quality and accuracy. 
• Goods delivered in time and in-full to quality and to order. 
• Improve lead and build times. 
• Reduce cost of manufacturing processes /products. 

Other responsibilities

• Recruiting, inducting and training of new staff members.
• Provide the direction and support to enable your team to deliver their objectives and develop performance. 
• Play a leadership role within Operations, personally role-modelling behaviours and own performance required to achieve the site’s objectives.
• Create a culture of effective cross-functional and flexible working throughout Operations to ensure labour flexibility is aligned to meet fluctuations in demand.
• Support and develop the performance of individual team members, utilising performance management tools and techniques.
• To hold regular team and planning meetings with staff members.
• Produce monthly reports to Management. 
• Inspire others by demonstrating enthusiasm and a focus on making a difference.
• Provide consistent and visible support to create an enduring positive culture. 
• Pro-actively manage others’ expectations. 
• Take full ownership for the performance of individuals under your own managerial area.
• Ensure the department has adequate cover at all times – coordinate holidays.
• Inform Line Manager/Human Resources of any disciplinary issues.

Required Experience

• Excellent management, planning and organisational skills. 
• Degree calibre with a strong engineering background.
• Be able to learn, understand and apply the mechanical and technical principles applicable to the products and the procedures used within the business. 
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Must be able to assist in determining and prioritising changes and improvements needed. 
• Able to lead the implementation of the strategic and long-term plans of the Directors, as well as assisting and determining what improvements are needed within the business. 
• Capable to supervise and motivate your team by being actively involved in implementing changes and improvements. 
• Ability to produce documentation of relevant and necessary processes and procedures.
• Operational Management experience. 
• Leadership of a functional unit. 
• Budget/financial control and Resource Management experience.