Production Manager

We're looking for a proper Production Manager. Someone who can lead from the front, set high standards and make sure the production plan gets delivered.

You'll inherit an established production team with a leadership structure already in place. Your job is to tie it all together: giving people clear direction, creating accountability and ensuring production performs consistently against plan.

This isn't a role for someone who manages production from a spreadsheet.

You'll be visible on the shop floor, close to the operation and prepared to get your hands dirty when needed. You'll understand what good looks like, know which numbers really matter and use them to drive better performance.

Ultimately, the production plan sits with you.

• Taking ownership of the day-to-day production operation and delivery of the production plan
• Leading an established team through the existing supervisory/leadership structure
• Setting clear expectations around output, quality, safety, efficiency and standards
• Being highly visible on the shop floor and understanding what is actually happening, not just what the numbers say
• Establishing the right KPIs and using them to identify problems and drive action
• Holding people accountable while developing and supporting your team
• Tackling bottlenecks, downtime and recurring production issues
• Working closely with planning, engineering, quality and other functions to keep production moving
• Driving continuous improvement without losing sight of today's production requirements
• Leading by example and creating a culture where high standards become the norm

You'll already have experience leading production in a manufacturing environment, ideally within industrial products, consumables, process manufacturing or a similarly demanding operation.

More importantly, you'll have the right approach.

You're hands-on without micromanaging. You know how to use an established leadership team rather than trying to do everybody's job yourself.

You set high standards and are comfortable enforcing them. When performance slips, you address it. When something isn't working, you get close enough to understand why.

And you're commercially switched on about production. You know what to measure, why you're measuring it and what action to take when the numbers move in the wrong direction.

This is an established manufacturing operation, not a blank sheet of paper.

The people and structure are there. What we need is a Production Manager who can bring it together, raise the bar and deliver.

If you're happiest close to the shop floor, enjoy leading people and want genuine ownership of production performance, we'd like to hear from you.