Production Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Walsall; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Production Manager at their Walsall site to oversee operations and ensure effective output delivery. The role demands strong leadership and proven automotive production experience, along with adherence to health and safety standards. The successful candidate will be a part of the senior management team and will focus on optimally managing resources to meet production targets.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance

Access to a Digital GP and annual health checks

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading benefits

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Proven experience within automotive production.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring outputs are delivered against plans.
• Managing H&S standards and compliance.
• Prioritising resource allocation effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Resource Management

Automotive Production Experience

Education

Educated to Level 4 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) or equivalent

Job description

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At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Production Manager at our Walsall site.

The role

As a Production Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As part of the senior operational management team on site, you’ll join us to effectively manage the businesses operational resource to safely deliver the required output against the plan(s). This role makes resource prioritisation decisions to best to achieve the current (plus any subsequent amendments) to the output plan using the resources available.

Day-to-day, you’ll make decisions in the interest of the vehicle production line using your experience and key indicators required by the business needed to meet client demand.

• Ensuring outputs are delivered against plans provided and managing and prioritising resource allocation to meet delivery plan.
• Ensuring H&S standards are followed including use of PPE, safe working areas, near miss reporting and accident reporting.
• Ensuring management chain is notified of risks of meeting output plan as soon as is apparent.
• Managing their people using supporting processes/policies
• Ensuring company processes are regularly reviewed and submit suggested amendments where appropriate.

This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall.

Essential experience of the Production Manager

• Proven experience within automotive production.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.

Qualifications for the Production Manager

• Educated to Level 4 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) as a minimum (Higher apprenticeship, HNC, Level 4 NVQ) or equivalent workplace experience.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.