Production Manager in Coventry, West Midlands

Production Manager – Manufacturing

Coventry | £55,575–£56,810 + 7.5% Bonus + Excellent Benefits | 4 on 4 off Continental Shifts

Leading production and people for a world-class manufacturer at a major, highly invested manufacturing facility in Coventry, West Midlands.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Production Manager, Production Shift Manager, Manufacturing Manager or Shift Manager to join a major global organisation offering impressive facilities, excellent benefits and genuine long-term career progression.

Based at a large manufacturing site in South Coventry, close to Middlemarch Business Park, Coventry Airport and Baginton, you will take ownership of a production area and lead approximately 40–60 people, ensuring safe, efficient and high-quality manufacturing performance.

The role works a 12-hour continental shift pattern: 4 days on, 4 days off, 4 nights on, 4 nights off.

The Production Manager job itself, where you will take responsibility for people and operational performance across your production area.

This is first and foremost a leadership role: setting direction, developing people, solving problems and making effective decisions within a complex, fast-paced manufacturing environment.

More specifically, you will:

• Lead, coach and develop approximately 40–60 frontline production employees
• Take ownership of production performance, safety, quality and people
• Champion a strong safety culture and safe working practices
• Protect product quality and maintain high manufacturing standards
• Manage attendance, conduct and individual/team performance
• Deliver meaningful 1-to-1s, coaching and employee development
• Use production data and KPIs to understand and improve performance
• Solve operational problems and make confident decisions
• Balance competing priorities within a demanding production environment
• Work collaboratively with engineering, operations and other stakeholders
• Take ownership and accountability when senior management is not immediately available

To succeed as Production Manager / Production Shift Manager, you will be an established people leader with experience gained within a sizeable, complex manufacturing, engineering or operational environment.

You will demonstrate:

• Strong manufacturing or production management experience
• Leadership of sizeable frontline, shop-floor or operational teams
• Excellent coaching and people-development capability
• Confidence managing performance and difficult conversations
• Strong safety, quality and operational awareness
• Structured problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Experience working with production data, KPIs and performance measures
• Confidence making decisions with incomplete information
• Ownership, accountability and sound judgement under pressure
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills

Food or FMCG experience is not essential. Relevant backgrounds could include FMCG, food manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, engineering, process manufacturing, heavy manufacturing or other complex/high-volume production environments. Strong military operations and leadership experience may also transfer well.

As Production Manager, you will enjoy an excellent package including:

• £45,000–£46,000 basic salary
• 23.5% shift allowance
• £55,575–£56,810 total salary
• 7.5% annual bonus
• Private healthcare
• Excellent pension – up to 10% company contribution
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits
• Excellent training and professional development
• Genuine internal career progression
• Long-term opportunity within a major global manufacturer

This represents an excellent opportunity to develop your manufacturing leadership career within a large-scale, sophisticated production environment backed by a highly successful international organisation.

You can apply to this Production Manager opportunity by pushing the button on this job posting (recommended), or by sending your CV in confidence to (url removed).

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