Production Manager

Job Description

A key part of the Production Manager role is leading with humility, encouraging your team’s innovative input on improvements, recognising their performance, ensuring zero-harm at all times, leading a safety-first culture.

You’ll promote Continuous Improvement, implementing and utilising lean manufacturing techniques across the site. You’ll also maximise productivity sustainably, minimise waste responsibly, and demonstrate a cost conscious approach.

You’ll bring your expertise in maximising productivity and minimising waste ethically and responsibly, with cost consciousness regarding waste control, resourcing, and materials.

It’s crucial our Production Manager guides, supports and promotes our colleagues through training and development, enriching their knowledge, skills, and capability to ensure a fully skilled and motivated team.

You’ll also play an integral role in maintaining audit standards relating to BRCGS, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and SMETA Sedex.

Job Requirements

We are looking for a commercially-minded and people-centred leader with resilience, a drive for results, and commitment to empowering colleagues.

We’re looking for:

• A people-centred Production Manager with a hands-on approach.
• A improvement-oriented growth mindset, instilling this throughout the team.
• Experience in Lean Manufacturing techniques.
• Robust experience in delivering a significant changes or transformation projects for Production or Manufacturing environments.
• We’d love to hear from you if you have senior Production experience in FMCG, Foods, Paper Converting, Printing, Pharmaceutical, or similar environments.