About the Role
Do you have a passion for hands-on leadership, operational excellence, and problem solving?
As our Production Manager, you'll have the privilege of leading high-performing teams, fostering a safety first, quality-driven culture.
Your role will be Days based where you’ll instill a supportive, high-energy culture across our continental shift, setting high standards, educating and developing our talent.
Job Opportunity
A key part of the Production Manager role is leading with humility, encouraging your team's innovative input on improvements, recognising their performance, ensuring zero-harm at all times, leading a safety-first culture.
You'll promote Continuous Improvement, implementing and utilising lean manufacturing techniques across the site. You'll also maximise productivity sustainably, minimise waste responsibly, and demonstrate a cost conscious approach.
You'll bring your expertise in maximising productivity and minimising waste ethically and responsibly, with cost consciousness regarding waste control, resourcing, and materials.
It's crucial our Production Manager guides, supports and promotes our colleagues through training and development, enriching their knowledge, skills, and capability to ensure a fully skilled and motivated team.
You'll also play an integral role in maintaining audit standards relating to BRCGS, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and SMETA Sedex.
Essential Skills
We are looking for a commercially-minded and people-centred leader with resilience, a drive for results, and commitment to empowering colleagues.
We're looking for:
* A people-centred Production Manager with a hands-on approach.
* A improvement-oriented growth mindset, instilling this throughout the team.
* Experience in Lean Manufacturing techniques.
* Robust experience in delivering a significant changes or transformation projects for Production or Manufacturing environments.
* We'd love to hear from you if you have senior Production experience in FMCG, Foods, Paper Converting, Printing, Pharmaceutical, or similar environments.
About Company
Northwood is a family-owned group of associated companies that provide the manufacturing, supply and transportation of paper hygiene and wiping products for both the away-from-home and consumer market.
Our mission is to be the market-leading partner of choice in the away from home tissue industry. One of only a small handful of companies in the UK market that is fully vertically integrated; Northwood is involved at each point in the supply chain, from raw material supply, tissue and towel manufacturing, end-user product converting, storage and transportation.
Our remit is huge, with a portfolio of products covering two key systems brands, professional wiping, commodity, consumer paper and private label. We sell into a distribution network spanning the UK, Ireland and Europe, which in turn service markets such as healthcare, hospitality, hotels, engineering, janitorial, catering and education.
We are a highly successful, award-winning and ambitious business that has grown from a humble paper sales business to a market leader employing over 800 colleagues, across 11 sites in the UK and Spain.
We differentiate ourselves by excelling in product quality alongside market-leading service and sales support.
DE&I
At Northwood, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone is welcomed and respected. We strive to promote a workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages individuals to express their opinions and beliefs. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all.
Benefits
* Company pension
* Life assurance
* Sick pay
* Free company products
* Free on-site parking
* Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
* Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
* Free early access to pay scheme
* Salary sacrifice schemes
* Employee referral scheme