Production Manager

Kindeva Drug Delivery; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in drug delivery is seeking a highly motivated Production Manager to lead its manufacturing operations in a GMP-compliant environment. This role involves overseeing daily production activities, managing cross-functional teams, and driving initiatives for operational excellence. With a focus on continuous improvement, the ideal candidate will ensure high standards in safety and efficiency to meet production goals.

Benefits

Attractive compensation package

Company pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution)

25 days holiday per year

Private Medical Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Life assurance of four times life cover salary

Wellness programmes

Employee recognition program

Free on-site parking

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in a leadership role within a production environment.
• Working knowledge of GMP and regulatory guidelines.
• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing principles.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day production activities ensuring adherence to regulations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within production.
• Lead cross-functional teams to optimize production processes.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Communication

Organisational Skills

Education

Educated to NVQ level 3 or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Bishop Meadow Rd, Loughborough LE12, UK Req #1941

Our Work Matters:

At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Manager within Production Management to lead our manufacturing operations in a GMP-compliant environment.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day production activities, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards, managing cross-functional teams, and driving continuous improvement initiatives of the Inhalation Drug Delivery Manufacturing department to ensure all goals are met.

Leading a 24-hour production operation with strong links to other key functions, this role includes the leadership for investment in new equipment and products as well as managing the existing products to deliver the current portfolio.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain a safe working environment for all workers, contractors and visitors.
• Ensure safe working practices and procedures are defined and adhered to with risk assessments, audits and training conducted as required within the team.
• Develop and audit metrics for the group’s performance to ensure delivery of customer aligned KPIs.
• Drive team adherence and improvement to GMP standards.
• Lead the group through appropriate performance and financial measures, optimizing people, materials and equipment to achieve the production plan at optimum cost.
• Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence, delivering improvements to KPIs, and follow operational excellence principles.
• Improve customer responsiveness, RFT, cost and inventory etc.
• Drive teamwork and personal development to enable the workforce to hit plan.
• Champion active leadership within the group to promote open communication and engagement.
• Creates a “can do” team through inspirational coaching and leadership development.
• Ensure employees uphold Kindeva people policies and ethical behaviours.
• Effective performance management of team and their reports.
• Ensure the appropriate level of flexibility within the operations team to allow responsiveness to customer and Kindeva requirements.

Skills & Experience:

• Educated to NVQ level 3 or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
• 3+ years’ experience in a leadership role within a production environment.
• Working knowledge of GMP, regulatory guidelines, and production management systems.
• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing principles desirable.
• Computer literate, familiar with Microsoft Word and Excel.

Key Capabilities:

• Strong leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Good organisational, interpersonal, and time management skills.
• Enthusiastic, flexible, conscientious and proactive in approach.
• Take a positive approach to own training and the development of the team.
• Strong verbal and numerical aptitude skills.

What we Offer:

• Attractive compensation package.
• Company pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution).
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) plus service days after 5 years.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Company sick pay.
• Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 confidential helpline support for employee and immediate family.
• Life assurance of four times life cover salary.
• Wellness programmes.
• Employee recognition program.
• Free on-site parking.
• Discount and cashback at many retailers.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Additional Information:

Location: Derby Road, Loughborough

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.

We believe our people make the difference at Kindeva, we look for skilled, passionate, and driven professionals to come and work with us to help us excel in manufacturing technologies and processes, which bring lifesaving products to patients worldwide.

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Kindeva is an Equal Opportunity Employer