Production Manager

Ashbrittle; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashbrittle is sourcing a Production Manager to oversee daily factory operations for doors, glazing, and fire protection components. You will lead factory staff, coordinate deliveries, manage stock, and ensure quality from goods in to dispatch.

The role requires hands-on maintenance coordination, procurement activity, and daily health and safety compliance, with a focus on meeting delivery targets and keeping the joinery shop productive.

Responsibilities

• Managing factory staff on day-to-day basis
• Organising Day to Day Deliveries and ensuring all loose materials are sent out where required
• Maintaining Ironmongery Stock Taking / Inventory List
• Materials Purchasing
• Chasing Material BO's
• Managing Goods in
• Checking Goods in Delivery Notes ensuring correct quantities received against orders placed
• Matching the Material PO raised with the signed delivery note
• Checking Delivery Notes Ensuring correct quantities received against orders placed
• Quality Control
• Organising / Booking Machine servicing
• Overseeing / Booking Engineers for machine breakdowns
• Ensure Daily cleanliness around all machines
• Ensuring Operatives carry out weekly checks on machines and maintenance tasks
• Maintenance check sheets to be reviewed and actions signed off by Production Manager
• Maintain Factory Fire Extinguishers annually
• Organising Annual PAT Testing
• Carry out Risk assessments Biannually and complete any non-conformities
• Maintaining and Updating Factory Training Matrix
• Organising Skip exchanges as and when required
• Monitoring and arranging Dust Box clearance as and when required
• Fork Truck Maintenance/ servicing / LOLAR recertification
• Fork Truck Gas monitoring and ordering
• Organising LEV Testing
• End of day shut down
• Ensuring joinery shop is producing as per delivery targets
• Responsible for upkeep of the delivery van, organising / booking in repairs MOT, Servicing.

Job description

Our client is a well-established specialist contractor with an excellent reputation for delivering high-quality door, glazing, and passive fire protection solutions across the UK. Working with a diverse client base that includes main contractors, local authorities, housing associations, and commercial organisations, they have built a strong track record of successfully delivering projects to the highest standards.

Specialising in the supply, installation, maintenance, and replacement of fire doors, communal entrance doors, steel doors, and associated glazing systems, they work across a wide range of residential, commercial, education, and public sector projects.

Known for their commitment to quality, compliance, and customer service, our client prides itself on delivering safe, reliable, and fully compliant solutions. With continued growth and a healthy pipeline of work, they offer an excellent opportunity to join a respected business with a collaborative team environment and long-term career prospects.

They now have an opportunity for a Production Manager to join their team.

Responsibilities

• Managing factory staff on day-to-day basis
• Organising Day to Day Deliveries and ensuring all loose materials (Closer / Packers / Architraves are sent out where required
• Maintaining Ironmongery Stock Taking / Inventory List
• Materials Purchasing
• Chasing Material BO's
• Managing Goods in
• Checking Goods in Delivery Notes ensuring correct quantities received against orders placed
• Matching the Material PO raised with the signed delivery note
• Checking Delivery Notes Ensuring correct quantities received against orders placed
• Quality Control
• Organising / Booking Machine servicing
• Overseeing / Booking Engineers for machine breakdowns
• Ensure Daily cleanliness around all machines
• Ensuring Operatives carry out weekly checks: To maintain their machines which they are responsible for - i.e. general cleaning or machine, ordering replacement parts as and when required, Visual checks completed, ensuring emergency stop is working, greasing of all points, visual checks of all sensors, check hoses not split / blocked, visual check of belts no fraying, visual checks around machines for any obstructions, check oil levels and top up. Each operative to complete a maintenance check of the machine they are responsible for.
• Maintenance check sheets to be reviewed and any actions required to be taken then signed off by Production Manager
• Maintain Factory Fire Extinguishers annually
• Organising Annual PAT Testing
• Carry out Risk assessments Biannually and complete any non-conformities
• Maintaining and Updating Factory Training Matrix
• Organising Skip exchanges as and when required
• Monitoring and arranging Dust Box clearance as and when required
• Fork Truck Maintenance/ servicing / LOLAR recertification
• Fork Truck Gas monitoring and ordering
• Organising LEV Testing
• End of day shut down
• Ensuring joinery shop is producing as per delivery targets
• Responsible for upkeep of the delivery van, organising / booking in repairs MOT, Servicing.

Working hours 6am to 2.45pm