At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead daily extrusion operations and ensure production meets quality and customer standards.
- Company: Join a successful injection moulding manufacturer with a strong team culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible holidays, enhanced pension, learning opportunities, and an on-site café.
- Other info: Great career growth potential and a focus on safety and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic manufacturing environment while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in extrusion and strong leadership abilities in a manufacturing setting.
The predicted salary is between 37800 - 46200 £ per year.
Working with our client, a successful injection moulding manufacturer, we are looking for an experienced Production Manager to join their established team.
Benefits:
- Flexible holiday buy/sell scheme
- Enhanced Pension scheme
- Recognition and reward scheme
- Internal and external learning and development
- On site Café
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work & Tech Scheme
- Enhanced Maternity & Partner leave
Remit:
As a Production Manager you will be responsible for leading daily extrusion operations to deliver production, quality and customer requirements. This position will suit an experienced Production Manager with a proven background in Extrusion who can demonstrate strong leadership skills in managing and developing diverse teams within a manufacturing environment.
Role:
- Lead daily extrusion operations to deliver production, quality and customer requirements.
- Monitor key performance measures including output, utilisation, waste, schedule adherence and right-first-time, driving action where performance falls short.
- Champion a strong safety culture across extrusion operations, ensuring compliance with HSE, engineering, legislative and ISO standards.
- Lead incident response, safety inspections and the implementation of safe systems of work.
- Oversee production planning, raw material availability, finished goods and warehouse operations to ensure efficient material flow, stock accuracy and uninterrupted production.
- Work closely with logistics and warehouse partners.
- Lead, engage and develop extrusion, planning and warehouse teams, setting clear objectives and expectations.
- Manage performance, attendance, coaching, development and employee relations in line with company policies.
- Drive improvements across safety, quality, delivery and cost using data, root-cause analysis and structured problem-solving.
- Support the implementation of new systems, processes and ways of working to improve operational performance.
Experience:
- Demonstrated leadership in managing and developing diverse teams within a manufacturing environment.
- Extensive extrusion experience.
- Ability to manage workforce planning and resource planning to ensure operational excellence and support succession planning initiatives.
- Extensive experience in extrusion operations, with deep technical expertise in mechanical and/or electrical fault diagnosis and resolution.
- Ability to collaborate and lead, fostering a high-performance and continuous improvement culture.
- Comprehensive knowledge of mechanical and electrical engineering principles as applied to extrusion processes.
- Knowledge of HSE standards and engineering compliance procedures, with a proactive approach to risk identification and mitigation.
- Ability to make decisions, and take accountability for site-wide operational and business outcomes.
Due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we will only contact successful applications that meet the requirements of our client job brief. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 10 working days, please deem your application as unsuccessful.
For all UK job positions work seekers must be eligible to work and live in the UK.
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