Production Manager (FMCG)

Job Description

A key part of this role, as a Production Manager, is leading with humility by encouraging your team’s innovative input, recognising their performance, ensuring zero-harm at all times.

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 to waste management/recycling, 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 and present approach to Production Management, with the willingness to support during busy climates.

A improvement-oriented growth mindset, instilling this throughout the team.

Ideally, you will hold a Manufacturing Certification/Qualification such as Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certified (not essential).

Ideally, you will hold (or be looking to attain) a Leadership Certification/Qualification, e.g. CMI, ILM or similar (not essential).

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.