Are you ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced manufacturing environment?
As a Manufacturing Manager, youll play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence, optimising production processes, and developing a high-performing team with a focus on continuous improvement; this role offers the chance to influence key business outcomes.
Passionate about leadership, focused on building high-performing teams, and equally comfortable being hands-on or thinking and influencing strategically, you will have direct responsibility for Production, Continuous Improvement and Operations Training teams.
You will create a supportive and engaging environment that sets the standards and drives performance to achieve targets across our 24/7, 4-shift operations.
About the Role Key responsibilities include:
Ensuring health and safety standards are adhered to, actively promoting a safety culture of zero harm by choice
Development and performance management of direct reports to create high-performing teams delivering the Production team goals and targets
Collaborating with other departments to maximise productivity and efficiency whilst ensuring quality standards are maintained and working to guarantee that efficiency, quality and safety objectives connected to productivity and engineering activities are achieved
Working closely with the Engineering Manager to effectively schedule planned maintenance activities
Supporting the development of the Sites CI Strategy and framework, promoting a culture of continuous improvement, utilising lean manufacturing tools and techniques, and ensuring these are adopted and embedded across the site
Managing cost controls, including waste control, labour costs, material usage
Taking a leading role in supporting the site to effectively maintain audit standards relating to BRCGS, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and SMETA Sedex
Benefits Company pension
Life assurance
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
Requirements To be successful in this Manufacturing Manager role, you will ideally have:
At least 5 years of experience in a senior production management role
Have held production management roles in FMCG manufacturing environments
Be Green Belt or Six Sigma Black Belt qualified
Relevant people or management qualifications, such as ILM/CMI
Demonstrable delivery of significant change/transformation project
If you have previously held roles as a Manufacturing Manager, Production Manager, CI Manager, or Operations Manager, we want to hear from you!
Recruitment Process Should you be shortlisted, you will receive an email from TalentCentral SHL, which will include a request to complete our candidate assessment to ensure that we can accurately evaluate your competencies and skills.
If you require any adjustments necessary to complete the online assessment, please get in touch.
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