Manufacturing Manager

Northwood; Telford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company is seeking a Manufacturing Manager to drive operational excellence and optimize production processes. You will lead teams focused on continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment. Your leadership in safety, productivity, and quality will be critical for achieving targets across a complex 24/7 operation.

Benefits

Company pension

Life assurance

Free company products

Free on-site parking

Discounts on food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms

Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program

Free early access to pay scheme

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee referral scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years in senior production management roles.
• Experience in FMCG manufacturing environments.
• Evidence of successful change/transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health and safety standards are adhered to.
• Develop and manage high-performing teams.
• Manage cost controls including waste and material usage.

Skills

Leadership

Continuous Improvement

Lean Manufacturing

Collaboration

Education

Green Belt or Six Sigma Black Belt

Relevant people or management qualifications (ILM/CMI)

Job description

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.