At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and optimise production processes in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
- Company: Join Ifor Williams Trailers, the UK's top trailer manufacturer.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and a focus on safety and quality.
- Other info: Exciting opportunity to shape the future of trailer manufacturing.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of innovative manufacturing and drive real change.
- Qualifications: Proven leadership in operations and a passion for continuous improvement.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 £ per year.
Production Manager Components Manufacturing Lead the operational heart of Ifor Williams Trailers — the UK and Europe’s leading trailer manufacturer.
Our Components Site at Corwen is the largest supplier to our trailer assembly lines, and we are looking for an exceptional senior operations leader to run it.
About the role: The Production Manager — Components Manufacturing sits at the operational heart of our business.
The Components Site is the largest supplier for our downstream trailers assembly sites and is central and critical to the success of our business.
The Components Site houses laser cutting machines, turret punching machines, press brakes, pack saws, vertical CNC machining centres, robotic welding cells and a manual welding department, which much be sequenced and managed to produce fabricated trailer assemblies and components.
The brief is simple in concept and demanding in execution: deliver safe, high-quality, efficient component manufacturing that meets the demand of every IWT trailer line — right first time, on time and in full, at a cost that supports business growth and capital reinvestment plans This is a senior leadership role with full accountability for the performance, quality and safety of all vertically integrated component manufacturing in your remit.
You will lead manufacturing leaders across multiple departments within the components site, own the production plan, drive manufacturing performance and root-cause problem solving, and act as the single point of accountability for getting components to assembly when assembly needs them — never the bottleneck, always the enabler.
What you will be responsible for: Safe, high-quality, on-time output across every department within the Components Site.
Production planning, scheduling and material flow across complex, sequenced operations OEE and uptime across high-value capital equipment, with capex business cases that anticipate growth and deliver strong returns.
Quality, root-cause problem solving, cost-of-quality and material-waste programmes.
Continuous Improvement embedded within the culture as a way of working A high-performing manufacturing leadership team — the right people, with the right skills, in the right places.
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