Senior Production Manager

Raytheon UK; Livingston; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holiday entitlement 25 days + holidays

Pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Life Assurance

Flexible benefits

Sick pay

Family friendly policies

Job summary

Raytheon UK is seeking a Senior Production Manager to lead manufacturing programs across Glenrothes and Livingston, ensuring safety, quality and on-time delivery within budget.

You will manage a team of Production Managers, drive lean processes, and work with ERP systems like SAP to optimise resources. UK resident and BPSS clearance eligibility required.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience of diverse teams
• Extensive management experience in a similar environment
• Strong SAP and MS Office skills
• Experience in a mixed-mode manufacturing environment with ERP interfaces
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Ensuring world-class safety culture and timely response to EH&S requirements
• Leading and managing a team of Production Managers with coaching and development
• Driving a high-performance, engaged culture with accountability
• Supporting workforce planning and recruitment to meet demand
• Maintaining manufacturing compliance to RUK standards
• Overseeing production across Glenrothes and Livingston for quality and efficiency
• Leading lean management activities including tiered accountability and leader standard work
• Driving daily results and rapid corrective actions to address misses
• Championing safety, quality improvement and CORE programs across manufacturing areas

Skills

Leadership

Management experience

SAP

MS Office

Job description

Date Posted

2026-07-28

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Glenrothes, Fife

Position Role Type

Onsite

Job Title

Senior Production Manager

Function

Manufacturing

Duration

Permanent

Hours

Full Time (37 hours per week)

Location(s)

Glenrothes (Scotland) and Livingston (Scotland)

Security Clearance

Must be eligible for and willing to undergo BPSS Clearance Checks

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defence company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.
Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defence.

Summary of Role

• Production programs are managed within agreed quality standards as well as financial budgets and timescales.
• Manufacturing compliance is maintained to RUK standards
• Financial review, analysis and reporting are delivered in line with business requirements, to RUK Control Account Management standards
• Continuity of production is maintained across the Glenrothes and Livingston site

What your days will look like

• Ensuring world-class safety culture is maintained and respond to all site EH&S requirements promptly
• Leading and managing a team of Production Managers, providing them with coaching and development.
• Enabling a culture of high performance, engagement and accountability.
• Supporting workforce planning activities such as recruitment of resource to meet business demand.
• Driving the team to ensure manufacturing compliance is maintained to RUK standards
• Accountability for manufacturing both Glenrothes and Livingston locations holding overall responsibility for production of quality products in an efficient and timely manner.
• Providing leadership coaching and development for production management team.
• Disciplined execution of the daily lean management system, including tiered accountability meetings, visual management systems, and leader standard work.
• Driving accountability to daily results and rapid corrective actions to overcome misses.
• Champion for safety, quality improvement, and CORE programs across all manufacturing areas.

Candidate Requirements

Essential:

• Leadership experience of diverse teams
• Extensive Management experience in a similar environment.
• Strong SAP & MS Office Skills
• Experience in a mixed-mode manufacturing environment, utilising interfaces with ERP systems
• Strong communication and presentation skills

What we offer

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year

For this role the successful hire will need to be a permanent UK resident and successfully complete a baseline (BPSS) security and background check.

RTX

Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.