Production Manager
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Location: New Bournemouth Site, Viscount Road, Aviation Business Park, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH21 7SD
Rate: £25.00 per hour
Contract: Full-time, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Duration: Initially 3 months, with the potential for extension
Reports to: Head of Manufacturing
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Production Manager to provide immediate leadership within a busy manufacturing environment at our Bournemouth site. This is a hands-on role focused on driving operational performance, improving production processes, and ensuring the delivery of a safe, stable and efficient production plan. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting production teams, improving performance metrics, and driving continuous improvement initiatives across the operation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support production teams to ensure daily output targets are achieved safely and efficiently.
- Drive improvements in customer delivery performance, product quality, manufacturing costs, and inventory management.
- Manage production planning activities, ensuring labour, materials and equipment are aligned to operational requirements.
- Monitor and improve key performance indicators including On Time Delivery, First Pass Yield, productivity and inventory accuracy.
- Lead root cause investigations and implement sustainable corrective actions to resolve quality and operational issues.
- Coach and develop Production Supervisors and wider production teams, promoting accountability and continuous improvement.
- Lead daily operational meetings, manage escalations and ensure effective communication across departments.
- Support Lean manufacturing initiatives and embed best practices throughout the production environment.
Candidate Requirements
To be successful in this role, you should have:
- Proven experience managing production or manufacturing teams within an engineering, electronics, or regulated manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrable experience delivering measurable operational improvements.
- Strong understanding of production planning, capacity management and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience using SAP or similar ERP/MRP systems.
- Good knowledge of UK health and safety requirements within a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- IOSH, NEBOSH, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma qualifications would be advantageous. xgikmsk
What We Offer
- Competitive pay rate of £25.00 per hour.
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