Manufacturing Production Line Manager

Future Products Ltd; Mansfield; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site parking

Training and development opportunities

20 days holiday and statutory holidays

Job summary

Future Products Ltd. in Mansfield is seeking a Manufacturing Production Line Manager to lead the production team on the shop floor, ensuring safe, efficient operations and delivery of targets. The role focuses on policy implementation, performance management, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate will drive health and safety, coordinate priorities across shifts, report to the production director, and push for cost reductions while maintaining quality and first-time-right delivery.

Qualifications

• Developing and implementing production policies and procedures.
• Delegating manufacturing tasks to ensure the team meets production deadlines.
• Managing the efforts of manufacturing workers on the production floor.
• Communicating expectations to production workers and appraising their performance.
• Educating production team members about health and safety practices.
• Establishing priorities to ensure the manufacturing team works efficiently.
• Addressing production problems as they arise.
• Reporting on team performance to the production director.
• Making recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Liaising with quality manager to ensure first-time-right products.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing production policies and procedures.
• Delegating manufacturing tasks to ensure the team meets production deadlines.
• Managing the efforts of manufacturing workers on the production floor.
• Communicating expectations to production workers and appraising their performance.
• Educating production team members about health and safety practices.
• Establishing priorities to ensure the manufacturing team works most efficiently.
• Addressing production problems as they arise.
• Reporting on team performance to the production director.
• Deliver KPI and quality with no fault forward.
• Nurturing cooperation and communication within the production team and other departments.

Skills

Production management

Team leadership

Health and safety

Quality control

Problem solving

Cost reduction

KPI reporting

Communication

Job description

We are recruiting for Manufacturing Production Line Manager

Location: Mansfield NG19 7JX
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent, 44 hours per week
Salary: £35,000

About the role:

We are looking for individuals who are driven, reliable, flexible across shift patterns and committed to perform a designated role within the production department ensuring they contribute to the efficient, effective, and safe running of their area/line to fulfil the needs of the business.

Essential skills and experience

Duties will include but not limited to:

• Developing and implementing production policies and procedures.
• Delegating manufacturing tasks to ensure the team meets production deadlines.
• Managing the efforts of manufacturing workers on the production floor.
• Communicating expectations to production workers and appraising their performance.
• Educating production team members about preferred occupational health and safety practices.
• Establishing priorities to ensure the manufacturing team works most efficiently.
• Addressing production problems as they arise.
• Reporting on team performance to the production director.
• Making recommendations about ways to improve employee efficiency and reduce costs.
• Deliver KPI and quality with no fault forward
• Nurturing cooperation and communication within the production team and other departments.
• Work to a high standard to achieve consistence high quality products and liaising with quality manager or quality issues to get the product right for the customer first time
• Delivery company training and initiatives as and when required
• Experience in the Window and Door industry desirable although not essential

Competency and behaviours

• Ability to motivate people, give recognition to staff when things are going well, identify necessary areas of development and have managerial courage when communicating popular or unpopular decisions.
• Be able to provide the best possible solution to problem solving or decision making by conscientiously testing things, examining facts, trying different alternatives, and thinking things through.
• Can set clear objectives, monitor progress, take corrective actions, and control performance levels.
• Be alert to changing situations, show flexibility in approach. Adaptability in difficult circumstances and continuously strive to achieve results.
• Have the outlook to consider problems as challenges and collect information relevant to the problems. Be disciplined in ascertaining the root cause, identify and develop a practical solution, communicate the findings, and implement the action plans to resolves the issue
• Previous experience within a glass manufacturing environment
• Experience producing double glazed units
• Knowledge of glass handling and processing techniques
• Experience working with production machinery

What we offer

• Competitive rates of pay
• Full time, permanent position
• Training and development opportunities
• On-site parking
• Supportive team environment
• Opportunities for career progression
• 20 days holiday and statutory holidays