Our client is a leading, well established and respected manufacturing business.
Due company growth, they have an opportunity for a Production Manager to join the already expanding. Our client design and manufacture highly complex products and are one of the world leaders in their field.

Purpose:

The Production Department Manager role is critical to the successful function of the business. Production Department Managers will manage and motivate their team, ensuring their departments run efficiently; to a high standard of quality, whilst also driving continuous improvement.

Detailed Responsibilities:

Scheduling

* Create and maintain a list of all outstanding work for the department and add job time estimates for a long-term schedule

* Create and maintain a list of staff resources. Use this and outstanding worklist to produce a departmental lead-time figure weekly

* Calculate completion dates

* Allocate jobs technicians based on the weekly production schedule

* Ensure work scheduled is completed in the time allocated using shop floor data capture

Leadership & Management

* Monitoring adherence to company policies and procedures

* Be involved with department HR activities such as inductions, training & recruitment

* Set and ensure compliance of team to standard work/operating procedures

* Undertake regular team meetings

Health & Safety

* Must have undertaken H&S training on risk assessments and COSHH

* Ensure all department processes and equipment have up to date risk assessments and team memebers are trained properly

Continuous Improvement

* KPI's activities

* Updating Key Results on a timely basis

* Reporting department KPI's on a timely basis

* 5S activities

* Continual improvement of department 5S

* Maintenance of 5s, ensuring 5s checklists are completed as defined by the 5S schedule

* Recommend and help implement process improvements to improve efficiency

* Suggest and support the implementation of product improvements

* Support with new product introduction (NPI)

Quality

* Ensure quality is maintained in the production of parts

* Recommend and help implement process improvements to improve quality

Equipment

* Ensure the equipment database is up to date with all departmental equipment

* Ensure all equipment on the database has intervals set for calibration and maintenance

* Ensure all maintenance and calibration schedules are maintained

Requirements:

* A good level of written and verbal English is essential

* Higher-level qualification (HND or bachelor's degree) in engineering

* Proven experience working in a manufacturing and engineering environment

* Experience in supervising a team

* Strong computer skills with an in-depth knowledge of MS Excel