Production Manager
Do you want to work for a successful business and be part of their growth plans?
Do you have experience working as a Production Manager within the UK Manufacturing sector.
This role is based on site.
Benefits Package
• Basic salary subject to experience and skills up to £62,000
• 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Pension
• Working hours 7am – 3pm Monday to Friday.
Our client, an established manufacturer of over 200 years have an opportunity for a Production Manager to join their team. They have a skilled and experienced workforce operating across the UK and part of a larger group. Employing over 300 people this is a well established and well known business.
Location: Rotherham
Job Title: Production Manager
Responsible to: Production and Engineering Director
- Reporting positions: Production Department / Hot End Foremen
- Location: Rotherham
- Shift Pattern: Days (Monday-Friday)
- Main Areas of Responsibility
- Working closely with the Production and Engineering Director to ensure production targets and factory standards are met
- Ensuring daily/weekly efficiencies are met
- Minimising the production of quarantine, implementing improvement initiatives
- Involvement in sampling on IS Machines
- Problem solving on IS Machines on a day to day basis
- Liaising with the Hot End Change Team
- Ensure the supervisory team follows all procedures related to machine operating and factory safety procedures
- Participating in jobs on/jobs off meetings
- Heavy involvement in the 4-week plan – liaising with Production and Engineering Director, Planner, Cold End Manager and Engineering Manager
- Chairing daily production meetings
- Daily meetings with Shift Manager and Cold End Foreman
- Producing weekly summary of production
- Managing cost centres for the Hot End
- Liaising with the Purchasing Department
- Managing overtime
- Managing Hot End recruitment with individual line manager
- Participation with any internal re-structures
- Involvement with Health & Safety e.g. updating risk assessments; manual handling; updating JSI’s; accident investigations; recommending improvements
- Liaise with on-site contractors
- Monitor Shift Production Supervisor’s Process Control Sheets
- Monitor absenteeism in the Hot End, including any disciplinaries and grievances
- Updating on any issues with production e.g. glass faults
- Monitor and log bottle faults daily
- Logging of job specifications
- Process improvement – identifying areas for quality and quantity improvements
- Producing a monthly report
- Identifying cost savings within the Hot End
- Investigate reasons why we have not achieved the standard issued in the plan
- Any other reasonable duties as requested within skill set
- Person Specification
- Excellent Communication skills at all levels
- Management experience (ILN / Leadership qualification desirable)
- Manufacturing experience
- Process Control experience
- PC literate
- Glass manufacturing experience (Essential)
- IS Machine Operator trained (Essential)
- Bottle fault training (Essential)
- Mould Design experience (Desirable)
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