Production Manager Machines

2 weeks ago


Newton St Loe, United Kingdom Jonathan Lee Recruitment Full time

**Production Manager (Machines) - Defence and Military Systems - Permanent - Attractive - Southwest**

**Production Manager (Machines) will be responsible for the following**:

- Manage the Machine Shop Team to ensure compliance with all HSE requirements.
- Promote a strong Health and Safety culture in line with the requirements.
- Utilise ERP workbench and sales forecasting to raise job orders in line with requirements.
- Manage transactional bookings of the ERP system.
- Manage the Machine Shop Team to produce and prioritise jobs.
- Where necessary, re-organise to meet deadline / priority changes.
- Ongoing development of the multi shift working model throughout the Machine Shop.
- Evolve to maximise machine resource utilisation and efficiency levels.
- Effective communication of product / programme status to all stakeholders within business.
- Ensure company policies and procedures are adhered to at all times.
- Ensure effective implementation and monitoring of the TPM program in the machining area.
- Monitor and report relevant KPI's levels to the Leadership Team, in line with agreed targets
- Identify and mitigate potential barriers to attaining KPI's consistently.
- Ensure machine uptime is maintained to high levels through utilisation of the team.
- Communication of machine / process issues to the Principal Machinists and Maintenance.
- Identify/mitigate barriers to attaining required output levels caused by resource constraints.
- Identify holidays/sickness issues to relevant team managers to minimise impact on output.
- Drive Continual Improvement of through effective deployment of company CI principles.
- Maintain and manage Machine Shop Team time and attendance recording and capacity issues.
- Monitor output levels with standardised costing models to ensure output and efficiency.
- Management and development of Team members utilising Personal Development Reviews.
- Active involvement in audits conducted both internally and by external certification bodies.
- Demonstrate adherence by the Team to defined processes and procedures.
- Implementation of new procedures/practices as required against any deviations identified.
- Management of Kanban within the machine shop.

**The Production Manager (Machines) should have the following Qualifications Skills or Experience**:

- An experience-based understanding of CNC machines and processes.
- Strong team-working and leadership experience, with drive and flexibility to maintain pace of work.
- Excellent team working and motivational skills to maximise the potential of the Machine Shop Team.
- Adaptability to change in a fast paced and fluid, manufacturing environment to satisfy the demands.
- Motivation and initiative, working equally well from the office or shop floor.
- Demonstrated time management, prioritisation and organisational skills.
- Experience in production scheduling and material planning using MRP / ERP tools.
- Degree in business, supply chain, logistics, operations/engineering or related field OR equivalent.
- Proficiency with standard Microsoft Office tools.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong multi-tasking abilities and the ability to obtain UK Security Clearance.
- Supervisory experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Experience in management / supervision of a variety of modern manufacturing environments.
- Experience Quality and Health and Safety requirements in manufacturing environment.
- Experience and knowledge of CI tools, Lean, Six Sigma ideally trained to Yellow Belt status or above.

**Security Clearance (SC) may be required due to the nature of the Defence products involved**

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.



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