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Location: West Midlands
Reference: J79274
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Telephone: 0121 233 1522
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Head of Production to work with big-name brands and some of the country’s most influential creative agencies.
Accountabilities
* Overall responsibility for managing production and ensuring all jobs are delivered on time and to pre-requisite quality standards.
* Monitor the incoming work schedule, prioritise jobs, allocate labour, and determine the fitting schedule for internal and external fitters.
* Manage the production workflow, optimise for efficiency, and supervise the production team.
* Overall responsibility for scheduling drivers and job paths, and for utilising drivers in production when they are not driving.
* Overall responsibility for ordering all materials for jobs.
* This role will be line manager for 15+ operators. Some of the associated responsibilities include:
o Ensure operators are onboarded and sufficiently cross-trained on different machinery.
o Supervise and motivate operators to do their best work.
o Advise general management on operator pay reviews.
o Advise general management on staffing gaps and lead recruitment efforts for production.
o Manage the operator holiday schedule and approve time off.
o Responsible for operator performance management and disciplinary actions where necessary.
* Provide production expertise to the commercial teams and general management.
* Serve as the primary point of contact for advice on jobs to the sales team.
* Identify production bottlenecks or efficiency improvements.
* Advise general management on new machinery requirements, and help assess new machinery.
* Ensure health and safety compliance within production.
* Ensure the factory stays clean and tidy.
Experience
* 5+ years’ experience managing production is required.
* 5+ years’ experience (ideally 10+) in the large format print sector is strongly preferred.
* Experience managing a similarly sized team of operators is strongly preferred.
* Existing knowledge of large format print machinery and file prep is strongly preferred.
* Experience purchasing materials (particularly within the print industry) is a bonus, but not required.
* Experience recruiting operators (particularly within the print industry) is a bonus, but not required.
* Experience as a hands-on operator (particularly within the print industry) is a bonus, but not required.
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