Production Manager

Production Manager
Manufacturing
Monday to Friday - Days
Salary £40-45k DOE
Must have Lean manufacturing experience

My client, a successful manufacturing company based in Bridgwater, is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and driven Production Manager with lean manufacturing / OEE experience. This is a newly created role, and the successful person will lead the production team on site. Managing approx. 15-20 staff, the successful person will use their lean skills to deliver a high-performance culture, ensuring a safe working environment with excellent Health and Safety.

Your main responsibilities will include:

1. Continuously strive to improve standards of health and safety, quality and security.
2. Act as the point of contact on site for all issues, escalating when necessary to the relevant senior team.
3. Ensuring that the site team maintain an "Audit Ready, All the Time" production environment.
4. Ensure Quality procedures are fully understood and consistently applied.
5. Ensure the site delivers against productivity targets, KPIs and OPIs.
6. Organise and participate in the recruitment, management and training of colleagues, nurturing a culture that is consistent with Navigator values, monitoring performance and developing the capability of the team.
7. Have a clear understanding of the company's policies and standards, ensuring that this understanding is cascaded with their team.

Key skills required:

1. Proven production management experience in ideally a food, drink or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
2. Lean manufacturing / GMP / OEE experience.
3. Familiarisation with BRC standards and SEDEX ethical audits is desirable.
4. Excellent people skills.
5. Excellent communicator.

This role will suit a person that may have previously worked as a Production Manager, Production Supervisor, Operations Manager, or Team Leader and is commutable from Bridgwater, Taunton, Honiton, Weston-super-Mare, or Highbridge.