Production Controller/ Account Manager

Position: Production Controller
Location: North West
Salary: £33K - £37K
The Company: My Client is a B2 and Digital printing company based in the North West who are currently turning over 3 million and employ 32 people. The company has been a successful business for many years and understands frustrations people can have across the floor with production and support. This is why they take pride in providing a smooth production line, by recruiting skilled people who can ensure their quality is up there against competition.
The Role:
• Convert confirmed orders into practical production plans with the correct route, sequence, capacity, materials, outwork and delivery milestones.
• Maintain a realistic schedule across pre-press, printing, finishing and despatch, resolving clashes and escalating capacity risks early.
• Monitor live jobs, identify slippage or constraints and coordinate recovery actions while protecting quality, customer commitments and margin.
• Review estimates, job specifications, selling prices and expected margins before release; challenge missing, inconsistent or commercially weak information.
• Use Tharstern confidently for estimating and estimate review, job creation, production routes, purchasing, scheduling, job costing, WIP and management reporting.
• Maintain accurate job statuses, dates, quantities, specifications, purchase orders and notes so that colleagues can rely on the system.
• Control the efficient, profitable and on-time flow of print work from accepted order through production, despatch, job closure and invoicing readiness.
• Protect commercial performance by ensuring production methods, costs, selling prices, materials, outwork and job data are accurate
• Provide clear, reliable information to Sales, Client Services, Production, and senior management so that commitments are realistic and decisions are commercially sound