Engineered to Protect, that's our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. As Production Manager, you'll be accountable for the daily leadership of SEA's production, ensuring that manufacturing activities are safe, efficient, controlled and capable of delivering on quality, time, and cost. This position acts as the key operational lead on the shop floor and is pivotal to maintaining predictable delivery performance in a low volume, high variety defence manufacturing environment.
 
The Production Manager will be based at our Barnstaple site with an on-site presence required through the week.
 
The salary for this role is up to £70k, depending on experience.
 
What you'll be doing

Leadership of Production Operations - you'll lead production activities, maintaining a strong presence to support issue resolution and provide direction
Manufacturing Execution and Flow Management - you'll execute the production schedule, monitoring and ensuring compliance to build standards documentation and config control
Quality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement - you'll support root-cause investigation and corrective actions, promote right-first-time behaviours, and champion 5S, ensuring compliance with ISO9001 and AS9100-aligned production standards.
People Leadership - you'll coach and guide the Cell Leaders and production staff, conducting regular 121s and development discussions, motivating the capability toward SEA's vision and objectivesAbout our company
 
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient. We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets. 

What we offer
 
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we're always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
 
Work life balance

Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
25 days' annual leave, plus buy and sell
Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
Half day Fridays
Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leaveFamily & wellbeing

Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
All Staff Bonus
Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
Cycle to work scheme
Wellbeing Centre
Sports & Social activities
Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
Life assurance policy
Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning Facilities & resources

Electric vehicle charging points at all sites 
Private seated lunch areas 
Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages 
Onsite showers and toiletries provision 
Free onsite parking The skills you need

Strong experience in leading a production capability, ideally in a relevant/related industry to defence 
A vision to implement and embed lean thinking/principles into production activities 
Ability to lead, inspire and support a large team toward right-first-time approach with a continuous improvement mindset
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.

If you'd like to know more, please give Dave from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on (phone number removed). Or reach out to us on (url removed)