Job Description

About Us

Our organisation is the West Midlands' leading provider of accredited precision engineering services. Our comprehensive capabilities allow us to offer a complete turnkey solution for design and manufacturing. From multi-axis machining to press tooling and fabrication, we deliver solutions for our customers' most complex manufacturing challenges.

Main Purpose and Scope of Job

We have an exciting opportunity for a

Production Manager

to join our team. This is a pivotal role within the business that involves setting the pace for the organisation, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations, and driving the team to achieve excellence. This role will sit within the company's Senior Leadership Team, offering strategic direction, fostering a productive work environment, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality parts to customers. The role holder will be required to work closely with supporting functions in the achievement of KPI's.

Within this role you will report to the Operations Director.

Key accountabilities

Managing day-to-day production and delivery processes across multiple production facilities, ensuring key business deliverables are met and exceeded, including OTD, OEE, sales, inventory controls & budget adherence. Converting job routings produced by Engineering to Excel-based Production Plans, taking into consideration the risk associated with each job and downstream processes. Introducing and managing visual management tools for production plans across units monitoring adherence. Director cost reduction and process improvements to ensure efficiency of oepratoons and cost effectiveness i.e. monitoring gained hours. Managing transport and subcon services to ensure alignment with production schedules. Updating the capacity tracker according to the orderbook, liaising with business development, engineering and account management to ensure that they have the latest visibility. Leading, managing and motivating a large production team, implementing daily production meetings to ensure personnel are clear on activities and issues are flagged whilst carrying out performance related meetings where required. Liaising with supervisors and team leaders to prioritise workloads. Managing the Production Expeditor for the effective movement of product and available resources to ensure OTIF targets are met and liaising with Account Managers to ensure customers have timely and accurate updates. Working closely with the Business Systems Manager to review the production plan and ensure that it is deliverable advising where productivity improvements can be made i.e gained hours, batch sizing. Working with maintenance to ensure that equipment is fully operational and maintenance activities are suitable planned. Improving cleanliness of machinery and facilities; auditing to ensure that all staff are compliant with the TPM requirements. Driving adopting of the standardised tooling area; ensuring correct use and maintenance. Complete contract review paperwork for jobs to be launched to shopfloor checking Production Release information from engineering. Support, monitor and report on production performance and efficiencies, highlight any variances to the Operations Director, including daily coms with production expeditor on progress. Helping to support, monitor and report on production performance and efficiencies, highlighting any variances to the Operations Director, including daily coms with production expeditor on progress. Supporting with control measures to ensure finished product quality is as it should be to improve RFT. OTIF and OEE. Working closely with Quality to resolve issues quickly and ensure no release of non-conforming product supporting quality clinics to help conduct thorough quality investigations. Delivering and driving effective internal communication to the team, acting as a first responder for problems by providing technical advice where appropriate or escalating if required. Demonstrating a commitment to health and safety compliance prioritizing the welfare of all personnel and others who may be affected by their activities for which they are responsible. Ensuring compliance with AS9100 requirements, including accuracy of job card reporting.
The person we are seeking is above all hard working, committed and innovative able to showcase these aptitudes as well as demonstrating the preparedness to work within a fast paced and dedicated team.

Our Recruitment Process

As an organisation, we are committed to fostering inclusion and equality within our culture to remove barriers from our recruitment and selection process. Therefore, we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply to our vacancies.

Please note due to customer specifications, some candidates may be subject to undertake a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. Further information will be provided upon offer of employment.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

Bereavement leave Company events Company pension Enhanced maternity leave Free parking Life insurance On-site parking Profit sharing Referral programme Sick pay Store discount
Ability to commute/relocate:

Willenhall WV13 1LE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person