Production Manager

Locations:

Corby, Northamptonshire

Salary:

£45000 - £50000 per annum

Description

Role: Production Manager

Location: Corby

Hours Of Work: Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm with flexibility

Basic Salary: £45,000-£50,000 per annum

Additional Benefits: Company pension, Free parking, 25 days annual leave Inc bank holidays.

Job Purpose:

The successful candidate will be responsible for achieving and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Block Plant and Metals production operations to provide quality, on-time and in-full orders to our customers, whilst achieving excellence in safety.

Job Responsibilities:

Production & Materials:

• Management and economic control of resources (plant/labour/material).
• To implement corrective and continuous improvement actions on equipment and processes where required.
• Review the effectiveness of our productivity including measurements for quality, productivity and supplier performance.
• Co-ordinating monthly, quarterly and annual stock takes and audits.
• Analyse and evaluate all KPI achievements and action improvement measures as necessary.
• Ensure continued high performance, or plan and implement process improvement plans as necessary in line with agreed lean manufacturing programmes and to optimise the capacity of all production plant equipment.
• Audit housekeeping to ensure high standards are maintained.
• Ensure all production materials purchased are ordered and delivered within specification for production requirements.

People Management:

Responsible for developing an enthusiastic and committed workforce that is focused on working safely, and achieving the business aims and objectives:

• Implement disciplinary action where appropriate in all situations and particularly attendance and timekeeping issues.
• Effectively manage disciplinary issues treating all employees equally and fairly in a consistent manner.
• Effectively manage employee relations and site communication through timely team briefings on targets, common activities, site problems and successes, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor and reduce absence levels.
• Organise and manage the recruitment of temporary agency workers, their inductions, supervision and recording of hours.
• Develop a multi-skilled workforce in line with the business needs that ensure excellent quality and service is delivered to our customers.
• Manage the performance of the production supervisors, key production staff and chargehands to ensure they support and work to the company objectives and targets

Health and Safety:

Responsible for ensuring compliance with all aspects of the Business Health and Safety Policy alongside the Head of Operations.

• Ensure all accidents and hazard reports are correctly recorded, advise the relevant authorities and conduct a thorough investigation and that appropriate actions are taken to avoid re-occurrence.
• Ensure site compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and undertaking partnership meetings / toolbox talks.
• Ensure that risk assessments are in place for all activities and that they are reviewed in line with the annual plan.
• Document safe systems of work (SOP's), communicating and ensuring their implementation ensuring training, competence and compliance.
• Protecting the Health and Safety of all operatives and visitors by ensuring safe systems of work are adhered to and any permit work is covered by a live, accurate Permit to Work.
• Issue PPE and ensure it's correct and required usage and that appropriate training has been provided, as necessary.
• Investigating reoccurring health complaints or hazard reports in order to locate root cause and request support from Occupational Health Nursing Advisor or Safety Personnel as appropriate.
• Site security.

Personal Performance:

Responsible for working with the management team to achieve the goals and objectives of the business by:

• Ensuring you and your areas of responsibility are working safely and in line with the business Health and Safety policy.
• Implementing continuous improvement plans, systems and procedures within time-scales.
• Being reliable, responsive and a team player, while displaying a consistent, helpful and constructive attitude.
• Communicating full and complete information to all colleagues.
• Displaying an open and honest approach with all colleagues.
• Any other duties requested by the Head of Operations or Managing Director.

Other duties may be assigned.

Key Skills Required:

Essential:

• You'll have managed operational functions, ideally Foam and Metal production.
• Can demonstrate having delivered sustainable profitable growth through meeting customer demands
• Has demonstrably led successful culture change programmes
• Operated in a similar business before with demonstrable personal credibility
• Can demonstrate a strong team-based approach to leadership, having recruited and developed high-performing individuals, and developed high-performing teams

Desirable:

• Engineering Degree, Masters or MBA educated (or equivalent role-based experience).
• Has worked and can demonstrate a deep understanding of a unionised employee relations system

If you have the relevant experience our client is looking for in this Production Manager role, we would like to hear from you.

Impact Recruitment is an employment agency working on behalf of our client.