At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and inspire a team to meet manufacturing goals while ensuring safety and quality standards.
- Company: Dynamic manufacturing company based in Derby with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Join a forward-thinking team committed to continuous improvement and digital transformation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in manufacturing while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in manufacturing management and strong leadership abilities.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 45000 £ per year.
Lead, inspire and coach a broader team of functional leaders within a defined manufacturing plant or business, ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards.
Key Accountabilities
- HSE: Accountable for achieving the Zero Harm plan for the plant, ensuring full compliance to health, safety and environmental standards, and responsible for the delivery of the HSE strategic plan.
- Product Safety: Ensure all work is carried out in compliance with required standards to meet engineering specifications and promote a product safety culture.
- Quality: Drive and deploy the strategic plan for Zero Defects, ensuring cross‑functional teams integrate to reduce risk and deliver right‑first‑time, and comply with all relevant policies and standards.
- Cost: Develop and manage operational and financial budgets for the facility, monitoring and controlling performance to meet the budget.
- Delivery: Create an effective load and capacity planning regime, balance near and long‑term planning horizons, manage plant bottlenecks, drive inventory targets and eliminate slow‑moving WIP.
- People: Provide training, coaching and development for plant leadership; maintain succession and recruitment pipelines; optimise training plans across the plant.
- Lean: Deploy and sustain Production System minimum standards, coach cross‑functional teams for continuous improvement, and share best practice.
- Lead: Inspire manufacturing team to deliver high performance through facilitation, coaching and demonstration of lean leadership behaviours, and empower decision making.
- Risk: Maintain robust Business Continuity Plans for key resources; test them regularly.
- Manufacturing Services: Optimise performance of manufacturing assets to maximise productivity and meet current and future demand.
- Digital Manufacturing: Lead deployment of digital systems to improve product cost, quality and performance; manage and communicate digital strategy.
- Manufacturing Engineering: Facilitate development and operation of manufacturing engineering processes (Capability Acquisition, Product Introduction).
We think you need these skills to ace Manufacturing Manager
Leadership Skills
Coaching and Development
Health, Safety and Environmental Compliance
Quality Management
Budget Management
Capacity Planning
Lean Manufacturing
