Assistant Production Manager

3 months ago


Northallerton, United Kingdom Recruitment Helpline Full time

**An excellent opportunity for an experienced Assistant Production Manager to join a well-established company based in Northallerton

**Job Type:** full time and permanent with an immediate start available

**Hours:** 37.5 per week

**Job Type:** Permanent

**Salary range:** £30,000 to £35,000 DOE

**The Company

They specialise in high end electronics and pride ourselves on their business values. Through their friendly and flexible approach, the company tailors their products to suit the ever changing and individual needs to their customers. With over 50 years in the electronics industry, their experience, drive and commitment show in all areas of their operations.

**Scope and Duties
Due to continued growth and expansion, the company have an exciting opportunity for people to join their friendly and dynamic team. We have an immediate vacancy for the right person to join our team as an **Assistant Production Manager.** If you have what we are looking for, then we would love to hear from you.

This positions report to the Production Manager.


**Job Description

The purpose of this role is to assist and deputize for the Production Manager in their full delivery of the detailed, day-to-day production and customer shop-floor elements of the business operations, responsible for but not solely limited to the following key functions:

- Rostering and micro-management of the shop-floor team, consistently to deliver a customer-focused, cost-conscious and highly effective production process for customers.
- Leadership and inspiration of the production team to achieve the robust delivery of a consistently perfect product for customers, aiming for zero waste and 100% achievement of quality standards.
- Encouraging partnership working and transparency with other departments in the business, adopting a team approach to problem solving.
- Providing constructive challenge to the production team to drive continuous improvement across all areas of their responsibilities, improving quality output, reducing inefficiency and waste.- Oversee the safety management, quality assurance and environmental and sustainability systems and processes on the shop-floor.
- Communicate performance indicators to all members of staff within the Production team and develop plans for continuous improvement. As a minimum these will be communicated at the end of each month and will include performance against Production targets and KPIs.
- Drive continuous improvement in the avoidance and management of production downtime by leading multi-disciplinary debriefs after each significant issue.
- Implement and proactively monitor the effectiveness of processes and procedures that encourage staff to admit mistakes rather than conceal them.
- Ensure that other departmental managers receive an update on Production issues at least once per week and participate in resolving issues and improving performance where appropriate.
- Maintenance of professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies as appropriate.
- Contribution to the wider team effort by accomplishing related results and providing appropriate support as needed.-
**Essential Characteristics

- Previous experience in a similar role such as Team Leader, Lead Supervisor, or other such middle management experience
- Previous experience within a manufacturing environment
- Be proactive, dedicated with a positive “can do" attitude
- Enjoy setting exemplary standards and be a people motivator
- Have high levels of concentration and good IT skills with Microsoft Word, Excell and systems databases
- Have a flexible approach and an ability to adapt to changing demands to meet tight production deadlines
- Have effective interpersonal and communication skills



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