Production Manager

Welland Medical Ltd; Crawley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Production Manager to lead their manufacturing team. This role involves overseeing production operations, managing a team of shift managers, and ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards. The ideal candidate will drive performance improvements and foster a culture of engagement and continuous development within the team. Join a company that is dedicated to enhancing lives through innovative products and services, and play a crucial role in delivering excellence in manufacturing. If you are passionate about leadership and operational excellence, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills to manage production teams effectively.
• Experience in performance and budget management.

Responsibilities

• Direct management of Manufacturing Shift Managers and Assistant Production Manager.
• Ensure achievement of production targets and compliance with quality standards.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and safety.

Skills

People Management

Performance Management

Continuous Improvement

Budget Management

Health and Safety Compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Management or related field

Job description

Welland Medical brings to market the best and most innovative products that enhance the lives of people living with a stoma across the world. Investing in the most talented people collaborating to create world-class, ground-breaking products and services devoted to improving peoples’ lives. We are passionate about making a difference in the world. Our reputation is based on a tradition of

improvement, ethical leadership, and total commitment to quality and safety.

Welland Medical, established in 1988 is part of the CliniMed Group, and has over 250 colleagues committed to enhancing people’s lives.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

As a Production Manager, your main responsibilities and duties will include:

People

• Direct People management for the Manufacturing Shift Managers and Assistant Production Manager.
• Manage Best Practice across the production areas ensuring consistent ways of working and adoption of best ideas from each shift.
• Manage the communications and handovers across the shift to enable the best possible collaboration.
• Ensure collaboration between functions utilization of support and fostering a team environment.
• People management, ensuring adoption and drive for the employee engagement with the “Vision”, “Values”, and Culture integrated into all related activities.
• Support the drive to maintain and improve the Investors in People status.
• Performance Management: coaching and mentoring of all direct reports, manage the handling of disciplinary and grievance processes within Operations, working with HR to ensure support for ensuring fairness, consistency and appropriate processes are followed.
• Responsible for conducting Performance Development Reviews for all direct reports.

Manufacturing Performance

• Strategic department development, supporting and delivering the company strategy through the necessary tactics and actions.
• Target/KPI achievement; ensuring that the Operations team achieve the agreed targets in Scrap, Throughput, Downtime, Tool change and Efficiency.
• Progress reporting: ensuring Directors, Senior Managers and key contacts are kept informed of progress, changes to plans and rectification actions.
• Schedule compliance: working with the Production Control Function to adhere to the plans and implement the appropriate proactive and reactive activities to deliver the required production on time.
• Display accurate up to date performance data across all shifts on all manufacturing processes and ensure this is communicated to all key stakeholders.

Finance

• Overall budgetary creation and control for the production department, ensuring all actions are taken to achieve the budget and to identify areas which may be an issue with solutions and reasons to the senior team.
• Identify areas where additional costs may be incurred and suggest counter measures.

Continuous Improvement

• To create and maintain an environment of continuous improvement of both people skills and processes.
• Maintain a housekeeping regime that always promotes best practice and 5S standards.
• Liaison with the management team and other departments, as appropriate, in the daily running of the business.
• Responsible for organising and holding manufacturing meetings.
• Lead and contribute to the continuous improvement of the manufacturing processes.

Quality/QARA

• Ensure that the department is compliant to all regulatory requirements.
• Health and Safety: Ensure a positive health and safety cultural environment throughout the production department.
• Manage the production Health and Safety team so that it is effective and links into the company.

Health and Safety committee

• Raise the profile of reactive measures of performance throughout the business, including severity rates, frequency rates and tools such as the Green Cross are visible and prompt actions are taken to reduce potential reoccurrence of incidents.
• Promote proactive measures and targets to improve the performance in Health and Safety.

For more information please contact our recruitment team.