Production Manager

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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