Senior Production Manager - Plastic Moulding & Tooling

CDM Recruitment; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent dayshift

Every other Friday off

Job summary

CDM Recruitment is supporting an established engineering and manufacturing organisation in the North East to recruit an experienced Production Manager for a senior leadership role responsible for production and production engineering across multiple sites, with emphasis on injection moulding, tooling, quality, and continuous improvement.

The role requires 5+ years in high-volume plastics manufacturing, strong leadership, tooling knowledge, and a track record of delivering improvements.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in plastics manufacturing and injection moulding.
• 5+ years in high-volume manufacturing leadership.
• Senior production or manufacturing leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of injection moulding processes and machinery.
• Experience with tooling and working with toolmakers.
• Experience of new mould sampling and validation.
• Proven continuous improvement background.
• Strong people management and leadership skills.
• Experience working within established QHSE standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead Production and Production Engineering teams across multi-site operation.
• Manage manufacturing performance across multiple sites.
• Dr ive improvements across safety, quality, cost and delivery.
• Monitor production performance and implement corrective actions.
• Improve cycle times, efficiency and manufacturing capability.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support new tooling projects and mould trials.
• Work with external toolmakers on new and existing tooling.
• Lead new mould sampling and validation.
• Troubleshoot moulding, tooling and process-related issues.
• Ensure products meet customer and quality requirements.
• Maintain high QHSE standards.
• Develop team capability, accountability and engagement.

Skills

Injection moulding

Leadership

High-volume manufacturing

Tooling

Mould sampling

Continuous improvement

People management

QHSE standards

Problem-solving

Education

Engineering qualification

Tools

Mould tooling equipment

Job description

CDM Recruitment is supporting an established engineering and manufacturing organisation in the North East to recruit an experienced Production Manager for a senior leadership role responsible for production and production engineering across multiple sites, with emphasis on injection moulding, tooling, quality, and continuous improvement.

The role requires 5+ years in high-volume plastics manufacturing, strong leadership, tooling knowledge, and a track record of delivering improvements.