Production Manager

We are recruiting a Production Manager for a heavy manufacturing operation based in Hull. This is a hands on leadership role for someone who wants to be on the shopfloor every day, not stuck behind a desk.

The Business Our client is an established manufacturing business running a high volume production facility. They are looking for a Production Manager who can lead from the front and get the best out of their supervisors and shopfloor teams.

The Role

• Own the shopfloor. Be visible, support your supervisors and remove whatever is blocking production.
• Take charge of health and safety. Safe practices, sharp housekeeping, no shortcuts.
• Deliver the daily production plan by managing labour, machinery and workflow in real time.
• Coach supervisors into confident leaders who can run their own areas without you standing over them.
• Build multi-skilled teams and tackle poor performance early, fairly and consistently.
• Drive continuous improvement. Cut waste, improve machine utilisation, back good ideas from the floor.
• Work tightly with Planning, Maintenance, Quality, Warehouse and Transport to keep production supplied and on track.

The Person

• Manufacturing leadership experience in a heavy manufacturing setting, ideally with exposure to timber or wood based processing.
• Equally, background in other manufacturing environments running heavily automated, continuous feed machinery, such as edge banding lines, would be valued.
• Background as a Production Supervisor, Shift Manager or Production Manager.
• Solid grasp of production flow, machine utilisation and labour management.
• A track record of lifting production performance through hands on shopfloor leadership.
• Approachable, fair and consistent. Sets high standards and challenges poor performance without drama.
• Calm under pressure, decisive, and genuinely invested in developing people.
• Always looking for a safer, simpler or better way to get the job done.

If this sounds like the right next step for a Production Manager role in Hull, get in touch to find out more.

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