Production Manager

Rullion Managed Services; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Rullion Managed Services is recruiting a Production Manager - Rolling Stock in Derby. The role focuses on safe, on-time delivery of trains, leading maintenance teams and ensuring safety, quality, and performance standards are met.

It requires strong people management, production planning, and rail industry knowledge. The role is a 37-hour week with alternating weekly shifts; shift patterns include morning, afternoon, and weekend overtime.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 (or above) in Electrical Engineering or equivalent (desirable).
• Man management experience of large groups of staff 10+.
• Experience in fleet and/or maintenance operations and planning workloads effectively.
• Technical knowledge of relevant Traction and Rolling Stock.
• An understanding of SAP and ability to use MS Office packages.
• Knowledge of Rail industry IT systems, Ravers, Trust and Gemini. Desirable attributes:
• Experience of maintenance management / service and delivery in the railway industry
• Understanding of Railway Depot and Railway Industry Operations INDTR-BR

Responsibilities

• You’ll be part of a large, well-known rail company managing the Maintenance Teams and ensuring that accountability for production is clearly defined and delegated.
• Managing organisational change in order to optimise working practices and thus ensure a productive workforce.
• You’ll also be ensuring all Production meets the Safety and Quality requirements of internal standards, customer specifications and Network Rail standards.
• Monitoring and controlling Production on a shift-by-shift basis.
• Identifying people requirements for budgeted fixed workload ensuring flexibility and high levels of productivity.
• Monitoring working practices and environment to ensure that people and facilities meet the mandatory and/or statutory requirements.
• Identifying training and other resource needs to facilitate production in the most effective way.
• Ensuring work is performed in a safe, effective manner and in accordance with the H&S at Work Act, Rules and Regulations, Railway Group Standards and Alstom Policies and Procedures.
• Reviewing work plans with Production Controllers to ensure daily production targets are met as effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Maintaining good industrial relations within area of responsibility, implementing disciplinary procedures for any serious staff irregularities - maintain a well-disciplined work force.
• Proactively identifying areas for improvement by personal check, analysis of trains incident reports and complaints, initiating action to ensure improvements.
• Being responsible for ensuring IT systems are updated and where required concluded in relation to work done.
• Encouraging continual professional development for staff within your areas of responsibility.
• Being responsible for managing and prioritising the workload of each team in line with the traincare centre requirements which include: Isolations; Validation of Service Orders completed by team members; Reporting and maintaining progress of work; Quality including the completion of In-Process and Final Inspections, and adherence with Local Quality System; Team Member Training needs; Discipline and managing for attendance.

Skills

People management

Production planning

Safety compliance

MS Office literacy

SAP familiarity

Rail industry knowledge

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SAP

MS Office

Job description

Production Manager - Rolling Stock

Derby

We are recruiting a Production Manager to join a leading rail manufacturing organisation in Derby. This role is key to the safe and efficient delivery of production targets, ensuring trains are delivered on time, in a fully compliant, safe, and customer-ready condition.

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in managing production operations, leading teams, and ensuring all safety, quality, and performance standards are consistently achieved.

This is a 37-hour per week position with a requirement to work alternating weekly shifts.

Morning Shift (8% shift allowance)

• Monday to Thursday: 06:00 - 14:00
• Friday: 06:00 - 11:00
• PAYE: £28.05 per hour
• Umbrella: £35.92 - £37.68 per hour

Afternoon Shift (16% shift allowance)

• Monday to Thursday: 14:00 - 22:00
• Friday: 11:00 - 18:00
• PAYE: £30.14 per hour
• Umbrella: £38.62 - £40.52 per hour

Weekend overtime

• Saturday: +33% (PAYE: £37.31/hr | Umbrella: £47.90- £50.25/hr)
• Sunday: +50% (PAYE: £42.08/hr | Umbrella: £54.08 - £56.73/hr)

Main duties and responsibilities

• You’ll be part of a large, well-known rail company managing the Maintenance Teams and ensuring that accountability for production is clearly defined and delegated.
• Managing organisational change in order to optimise working practices and thus ensure a productive workforce.
• You’ll also be ensuring all Production meets the Safety and Quality requirements of internal standards, customer specifications and Network Rail standards.
• Monitoring and controlling Production on a shift-by-shift basis.
• Identifying people requirements for budgeted fixed workload ensuring flexibility and high levels of productivity are achieved.
• Monitoring working practices and environment to ensure that people and facilities meet the mandatory and/or statutory requirements.
• Identifying training and other resource needs to facilitate production in the most effective way.
• Ensuring work is performed in a safe, effective manner and in accordance with the H&S at Work Act, Rules and Regulations, Railway Group Standards and Alstom Policies and Procedures.
• Reviewing work plans with Production Controllers to ensure daily production targets are met as effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Maintaining good industrial relations within area of responsibility, implementing disciplinary procedures for any serious staff irregularities - maintain a well-disciplined work force.
• Proactively identifying areas for improvement by personal check, analysis of trains incident reports and complaints, initiating action to ensure improvements.
• Being responsible for ensuring IT systems are updated and where required concluded in relation to work done.
• Encouraging continual professional development for staff within your areas of responsibility.
• Being responsible for managing and prioritising the workload of each team in line with the traincare centre requirements which include:
• Isolations
• Validation of Service Orders completed by team members.
• Reporting and maintaining progress of work.
• Quality including the completion of In-Process and Final Inspections, and adherence with Local Quality System
• Team Member Training needs
• Discipline and managing for attendance

Candidate requirements

We are agile, inclusive and responsible in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

We are highly interested if you have:

• NVQ Level 3 (or above) in Electrical Engineering or equivalent (desirable)
• Man management experience of large groups of staff 10+
• Experience in fleet and/or maintenance operations and planning workloads effectively.
• Technical knowledge of relevant Traction and Rolling Stock.
• An understanding of SAP and ability to use MS Office packages.
• Knowledge of Rail industry IT systems, Ravers, Trust and Gemini.Desirable attributes:
• Experience of maintenance management / service and delivery in the railway industry
• Understanding of Railway Depot and Railway Industry Operations INDTR-BR

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants