EPW2
Job Title: Production Manager
Site Location: Stormking, Tamworth
Days and Hours of Work: Monday-Friday (39 hours per week)
Job Purpose:
We are recruiting for a result’s driven individual who strives to continually improve the performance of the production teams whilst adopting a safety-first culture. The Production Manager will build a team that takes pride in producing a quality product that is delivered to site to meet and exceed customer expectations. The Production Manger will have responsibility for all operational activity, so it is essential that they are a strong communicator who has experience in man management.
Key Accountabilities:
1. Promotes and manages a health and safety culture across site. Ensuring all activities on site comply with H&S regulations and guidelines. Ensure all company policies and procedures are adhered to.
2. Ensure all product produced on and leaving site meets the agreed quality standards
3. Ensure site is running at maximum efficiency and fully achieving production plans
4. Ensure site is running in line with budget requirements and targets
5. Working with all departments across the business to instil and develop a continuous improvement ethic that focuses on driving down cost and improving quality
6. Maintains a high level of employee motivation by working closely with all employees to develop a highly communicative team where employees are made fully aware of business performance and activities. Also ensure any issues or problems either personal or work related are supported and resolved.
7. Lead and champion projects that deliver improvements to site performance and employee engagement
8. Create and present reports detailing site performance to all team members across all levels of the business structure
9. Lead and champion Root cause analysis projects to ensure any quality issues are resolved with a permanent fix put in place.
10. Drive KPI’s into production using them to identify and improve production trends.
11. Ensure material stocks are managed and used effectively
12. Maintain Manufacturing compliance to standards including a clean, safe environment for all employees
Key Experiences:
13. Proven experience as Leader/Manager or relevant role leading a team focussed on manual processes
14. Familiarity with company policies, legal guidelines, and Health & Safety regulations
15. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
16. Good knowledge of IT systems
17. Strong background in Lean and continuous improvement
18. Proven experience of driving through successful improvement and change management projects
19. Proven experience of root cause analysis and putting permanent fixes in place.
20. Ability to interpret and understand KPI’s and data
21. Desirables Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:
22. ILM level 3 in Leadership and Management
23. COSHH and risk assessment trained
Personal Attributes:
24. Leadership – strong, consistent, clear, inspire others, integrity, ability to drive through change
25. Empowering Others – Delegation of trust, correct controls, feedback, communicate accountability and responsibility
26. Action orientated – Able to deal with problems in appropriate time frames
27. Driven by results – Decisive, confident addressing problems and opportunities, challenging activities to improve performance, demonstrate willingness to challenge accepted methods and standards
28. Effective communication – Clear concise written and spoken, ability at all levels, customer, supplier and internal
29. Recognition of a changing need and speed of response, rapid reaction to challenges
30. High Standards – demonstrating a motivation to improve standards and thereby making a real difference, challenging inadequate solutions
31. Integrity and trust – demonstrating a sense of commitment to openness, honesty, loyalty and high standards in undertaking the role
32. People management – demonstrating commitment to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders