Production Manager — High-Reliability Manufacturing

Airbus SE; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Job summary

Airbus Defence and Space in Portsmouth is seeking a Production Manager to lead a production team, optimise resource planning and ensure on-time, on-quality, and on-cost delivery within a safe environment.

You will work closely with shop floor operations to balance manpower and machines, define global production plans and drive continuous improvement across multiple parallel projects in a high-reliability manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• Experience of leading production and optimising resource planning within a high-reliability manufacturing environment.
• Experience of project planning, P6 scheduling, and defining global production plans across multiple parallel projects.
• Experience of work package management, team leadership, and driving continuous improvement on the shop floor.
• Experience of utilising manufacturing systems such as SAP MES is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead and engage a production team to meet time, quality, cost, and safety requirements.
• Execute resource planning to optimise manpower and machines on the shop floor.
• Define and update global production plans to deliver multiple projects in parallel.
• Interface closely with the shop floor to ensure communication and alignment with production plans.
• Manage work packages and drive continuous improvement across the production environment.
• Ensure all outputs are delivered in a safe and compliant environment.

Skills

Production leadership

Resource planning

Project planning

P6 scheduling

Continuous improvement

Shop floor management

Tools

SAP MES

Job description

Airbus Defence and Space in Portsmouth is seeking a Production Manager to lead a production team, optimise resource planning and ensure on-time, on-quality, and on-cost delivery within a safe environment.

You will work closely with shop floor operations to balance manpower and machines, define global production plans and drive continuous improvement across multiple parallel projects in a high-reliability manufacturing setting.