Job type: Permanent
Hours: Monday – Friday (08:00am – 16:30pm)
Salary: £60,000 p.a.
Next Generation have been appointed to recruit for a Production Manager to work for a well-established manufacturing business who specialise in the manufacture of precision machined components. As the Production Manager you will be working alongside the Senior Leadership Team being responsible for ensuring smooth day to day operations, offering strategic direction whilst ensuring the wider team achieve manufacturing excellence.
Duties of the Production Manager:
* Responsible for the day-to-day production and delivery processes across multiple production facilities, ensuring key business deliverables are met and exceeded, including OTD, OEE, sales, inventory controls & budget adherence.
* Convert job routings produced by Engineering to Excel-based Production Plans, taking into consideration the risk associated with each job and downstream processes.
* Introduce visual management tools for production plans across units monitoring adherence.
* Direct cost reduction and process improvements to ensure efficiency of operations and cost effectiveness i.e. monitoring gained hours.
* Effectively manage transport and subcon services to ensure alignment with production schedules.
* Update the capacity tracker according to the orderbook, liaising with Business Development, Engineering and Account Management to ensure that they have the latest visibility.
* Lead, manage and motivate a large production team, implementing daily production meetings to ensure personnel are clear on activities and issues are flagged whilst carrying out performance related meetings where required.
* Liaise with Supervisors/ Team Leaders to prioritise workloads.
* Proactively manage the Production Expeditor for the effective movement of product and available resources to ensure OTIF targets are met and liaising with Account Managers to ensure customers have timely and accurate updates.
* Work with the Business Systems Manager to review the production plan and ensure that it is deliverable advising where productivity improvements can be made i.e.. gained hours, batch sizing
* Work with Maintenance to ensure that equipment is fully operational and maintenance activities are suitably planned. Improving cleanliness of machines and facilities; auditing to ensure that all staff are compliant with the TPM requirements
* Drive adoption of the standardised tooling area; ensuring correct use and maintenance.
* Complete contract review paperwork for jobs to be launched to shopfloor checking Production Release information from engineering.
* Support, monitor and report on production performance and efficiencies, highlighting any variances to the Operations Director, including daily coms with production expeditor on progress.
* Support with control measures to ensure finished product quality is as it should be to improve RFT. OTIF and OEE.
* Work closely with Quality to resolve issues quickly and ensure no release of non-conforming product supporting quality clinics to help conduct thorough quality investigations.
* Deliver and drive effective internal communication to the team, acting as a first responder for problems by providing technical advice where appropriate or escalating if required.
* Demonstrate a commitment to health and safety compliance prioritizing the welfare of all personnel and others who may be affected by their activities for which they are responsible.
* Ensuring compliance with AS9100 requirements, including accuracy of job card reporting
The successful candidate for the Production Managers position will have the following experience:
* 3 – 5 years experience working as a Production Manager within a precision engineering environment (Essential)
* Sound knowledge of CNC and Metal Fabrication processes (Essential)
* Previous experience working with turned parts or a machining environment (Essential)
* Knowledge of working to AS9100 quality standards (Desirable)
Due to the high number of applications, we receive, we are sometimes not able to respond directly to each candidate. If you haven’t been contacted within 14 days of your application, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Next Generation and the relevant client related to this vacancy.
Next Generation work in partnership with businesses across the UK who operate within Manufacturing, Logistics & Commercial sectors. We provide permanent and contract opportunities engaging with talented candidates looking to make their next career move
Salary description
£55000.00 - £60000.00 per year