Production Manager

We’re working with a large pan-European manufacturing business which operates Monday to Friday, 24 hours a day that is actively seeking to add an experienced Production Manager to lead one of its site Production teams.

Production Manager - South

40 hours per week Monday to Friday

Location: Nr Bognor Regis, West Sussex

Salary: £(phone number removed)

Your responsibilities will be: 

• You will be responsible for operational management, managing daily production activities, optimising processes, and ensuring operational targets are achieved. 
• Monitor production processes and workflow.
• Ensure adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Implement process improvements and identify bottlenecks.
• Monitor performance against KPI Boards.
• Encourage and maintain good standards of housekeeping of the factory.
• Cost and Performance Management against production costs, waste and resource utilisation.
• Oversee and drive continuous improvement initiatives and track output, efficiency, downtime, and spoilage rates.
• Analyse operational data to provide production reports for senior management.
• Site Quality and Compliance, ensuring products meet quality standards and customer requirements.
• Maintain compliance with HSE regulations.
• Team Leadership (30+ staff) across 24 hour production, overseeing production supervisors and operators.
• Lead, develop, coach team and share performance feedback.
• Promote a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

To be successful, we would like you to have:

• Proven Manufacturing or Logistics management experience. Knowledge of  the Print, Packaging or related industries would be beneficial.
• Experience managing production or manufacturing teams in a time critical and detail focused environment.
• Continuous Improvement experience and qualifications would be highly beneficial.
• Experience balancing labour, equipment, and materials to meet demand and deadlines.
• The ability to resolve operational issues quickly and make sound decisions under pressure.
• IT Literate with the ability to provide business leadership with good quality production data.
• Good planning and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication skills, at all levels (written and verbal) and able to lead by example.
• Use initiative to solve problems and make decisions.
• Possess a proactive, can do attitude.
• Be flexible, reliable, and trustworthy.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Full UK Driving Licence will be required for the role.

This is a great opportunity to take an important manufacturing management role responsible for a key fast moving and time sensitive production unit in a capable SME Business Manufacturing Group.

Unfortunately, we are not able to provide sponsorship at this stage