Production Manager

Location: Newmarket, Suffolk

Salary: £45k-£50k

Production Manager – Job Role:

• Overseeing manufacturing and production processes
• Liaise with other managers to formulate objectives and understand requirements
• Estimate costs and prepare budgets
• Organise workflow to meet specifications and deadlines
• Monitor production to resolve issues
• Supervise and evaluate performance of all production employees
• Determine amount of necessary resources (workforce, raw materials etc.)
• Approve maintenance work, purchasing of equipment etc.
• Ensure output meets quality standards
• Enforce health and safety precautions
• Report to upper management
• Creating and execute daily, weekly, monthly, and annual production schedules
• Procuring factory production equipment and taking responsibility for its maintenance
• Striving to reduce expenses and increase productivity across all product lines
• Maintaining hygienic conditions for both employees and the factory itself
• Implementing all the company’s procedures and policies
• Communicating any problems or obstacles to senior management
• Monitoring productivity rates, standards, and quality control
• Training and coaching Factory Operators and Sorters
• Implementing health and safety, environment, and quality requirements
• Apply lean strategies
• Work to aggressive growth targets
• Implement ISO9001

Production Manager – Person Requirements:

• Proven experience as a manufacturing production manager
• Deep knowledge of production management
• Understanding of quality standards and health & safety regulations
• Knowledge of performance evaluation and budgeting concepts
• Experience in reporting on key production metrics
• Proficient in MS Office and ERP software
• Outstanding communication ability
• Excellent organisational and leaderships skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong decision-making skills and a results-driven approach
• Basic understanding of patterns and grading
• Knowledge of retail maths and the ability to calculate wholesale costs, resource requirements planning (RRP) and margins
• Excellent understanding of lean manufacturing
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel to support work-in-progress and production schedules
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) systems
• Ability to operate all manufacturing or production line equipment

Desirable Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in production, manufacturing, materials science and engineering or a related field
• Technical and production-based certifications
• Certificate in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) or Level 3 or Level 5 Certificate in Operations Management.