Central Employment Commercial team are delighted to be working as a retained recruitment partner to a leading Sports eCommerce personalisation, licencing and print specialist, as they look to recruit a Production Manager operating from their state-of-the-art of facility in Macclesfield.
Up to £33,000 DOE + benefits, Mon-Fri 0700-1600, offering an immediate interview and start date (April).
Reporting to: Operations Manager
The individual is responsible for managing and coordinating the production floor, managing around 20 FTE.
Duties
- Responsible for overseeing production processes within the organisation.
- Creating daily weekly and monthly production schedules.
- Coordinating production schedules, ensuring efficient use of resource and maintaining high quality standards
- Striving to reduce expenses and increase productivity across all production lines.
- Managing a team of production staff, implementing process improvements and contributing to the overall success of the business
- Ensuring the team members follow procedures and comply with quality requirements.
- Organizing workflow to meet the production schedule as per specific deadlines.
- Monitor, evaluate and document performance – Creating production performance report.
- Communicating any problems or obstacles to senior management
- Ensure the production target level is achieved daily.
- Taking part in the daily production briefings
- To liaise with other personnel and departments to ensure the smooth running of the whole of operations on site.
- Effectively and efficiently manage the production of the required daily/weekly/monthly targets in line with customer specifications, meeting quality and delivery expectations, minimising costs where possible and ensure the required best working practices are always maintained.
- Develop production plans to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Other Duties might include:
- Providing tech packs to the production team before commencement of the job
- Open and close facilities as required.
- Coordinating the approval process of samples and following through the process
- Organise Monthly stock take of heat transfer.
- Provision of work for all production processes.
- Stock control of consumables
- Monitoring progress of the production and making any changes required within production processes to meet the deadlines.
- Ensuring the quality of the finished product is to the highest quality.
Leadership
- Working with the Production Manager and Operations Director to keep the business always moving forward and running at full speed.
- Contributing to Production succession planning into performance development plans to support future growth
- Directing staff development, welfare and rewards including annual objectives, appraisals, training needs and mentoring
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement
- Monitoring productivity rates, standards, and quality control
- Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of staff.
- Manage, coach, and develop a high performing Production team that meets agreed objectives, and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements.