Production Manager

Epwin Group; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000

Job description

Days and Hours of Work: Monday-Friday (39 hours per week)

Job Purpose:

We are recruiting for a result’s driven individual who strives to continually improve the performance of the production teams whilst adopting a safety-first culture. The Production Manager will build a team that takes pride in producing a quality product that is delivered to site to meet and exceed customer expectations. The Production Manager will have responsibility for all operational activity, so it is essential that they are a strong communicator who has experience in man management.

Key Accountabilities:

• Promotes and manages a health and safety culture across site, ensuring all activities on site comply with H&S regulations and guidelines. Ensure all company policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Ensure all product produced on and leaving site meets the agreed quality standards.
• Ensure site is running at maximum efficiency and fully achieving production plans.
• Ensure site is running in line with budget requirements and targets.
• Work with all departments across the business to instil and develop a continuous improvement ethic that focuses on driving down cost and improving quality.
• Maintain a high level of employee motivation by working closely with all employees to develop a highly communicative team where employees are made fully aware of business performance and activities. Ensure any issues or problems, either personal or work-related, are supported and resolved.
• Lead and champion projects that deliver improvements to site performance and employee engagement.
• Create and present reports detailing site performance to all team members across all levels of the business structure.
• Lead and champion root cause analysis projects to ensure any quality issues are resolved with a permanent fix put in place.
• Drive KPIs into production, using them to identify and improve production trends.
• Ensure material stocks are managed and used effectively.
• Maintain manufacturing compliance to standards, including a clean, safe environment for all employees.

Key Experiences:

• Proven experience as Leader/Manager or relevant role leading a team focused on manual processes.
• Familiarity with company policies, legal guidelines, and Health & Safety regulations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good knowledge of IT systems.
• Strong background in Lean and continuous improvement.
• Proven experience of driving through successful improvement and change management projects.
• Proven experience of root cause analysis and putting permanent fixes in place.
• Ability to interpret and understand KPIs and data.
• Desirable Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:
• ILM level 3 in Leadership and Management.
• COSHH and risk assessment trained.

Personal Attributes:

• Leadership – strong, consistent, clear, inspire others, integrity, ability to drive through change.
• Empowering Others – Delegation of trust, correct controls, feedback, communicate accountability and responsibility.
• Action orientated – Able to deal with problems in appropriate time frames.
• Driven by results – Decisive, confident addressing problems and opportunities, challenging activities to improve performance, demonstrate willingness to challenge accepted methods and standards.
• Effective communication – Clear concise written and spoken, ability at all levels, customer, supplier and internal.
• Recognition of a changing need and speed of response, rapid reaction to challenges.
• High Standards – demonstrating a motivation to improve standards and thereby making a real difference, challenging inadequate solutions.
• Integrity and trust – demonstrating a sense of commitment to openness, honesty, loyalty and high standards in undertaking the role.
• People management – demonstrating commitment to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders.