Production Manager

**Production Manager**

**Essex**

**BENEFITS: Competitive Salary / Bonus / Generous Pension / Death in Service / 24 days holiday plus bank holidays**

**Overall purpose of job**:
Leadership, management and organisation of key operational areas including Engineering, Projects and Facilities to ensure business and customer requirements are met in a cost effective and efficient manner. Deliver key projects and develop team to deliveran effective production team.

**Key areas of responsibility**:
**EHS**:

- Ensure areas of responsibility are working to legal & company standards, and deliver the safety improvement plan.
- Ensure Risk Assessments and procedures are in place.
- Support and suggest sustainable goals including environment, colleagues, and stakeholders.
- Ensure suppliers act in a sustainable and responsible manner.
- Develop a positive EHS culture in areas of responsibility.
- Ensure site infrastructure & security systems meet business needs.

**Quality**:

- Ensure areas of responsibility comply with relevant standards & procedures incl. ISO, Exipact GMP
- Support Managers to resolve Customer Complaints and Non-Conformances, and develop a deliver a right first time, continuous improvement culture.

**Service**:

- Support Managers with operational issue resolution and prioritisation.
- Use the output of the S&OP process to manage the Operations response to changes in forecasts.
- Investigate plan failures and implement improvement actions.
- Input into NPD / Commercial plans to ensure efficient ongoing production processes and projects delivered to plan & cost
- With the Supply Chain Manager & Operations Director develop the long-term capacity plan and ensure short term capacity fix implementation.
- Ensure all equipment has relevant PPM plan in place.
- Managing and dealing with projects up to and above of Million.

**Cost**:

- Ensure measured KPI's for each area are in place and reported on.
- Own the Operations budget and support Managers in managing their budgets.
- Support annual Budget and Forecast preparation process.
- Own capex justification and plans and deliver capex projects.
- Drive operational efficiency improvements, cost reductions and CI cultures.

**People**:

- Manage 4 teams both within Production and Engineering
- Support Managers personal development and co-ordinate performance reviews.
- Optimise the organisational structure in your area.
- Own the people plan and budget.
- Ensure effective communication is in place across production and the wider business.
- Manage performance issues and disciplinary, grievance and appeal meetings.
- Ensure skills & training are in place to deliver training plan, progressions, company standards & legal requirements.
- Act as point of contact with Agency suppliers and complete performance reviews. Own of long-term strategy for Agency suppliers

**HMRC**:

- Ensure site procedures followed to comply with HMRC (Excise Goods) requirements.
- Audit area to ensure compliance with HMRC regulations and practices.

**Strategy**:

- Be involved in creating long term strategy with business management teams with emphasis on the potential requirements of Production.
- Minimum degree qualified ideally engineering, operations or science based - Not Essential
- Experienced Production Manager with minimum 5yrs experience across FMCG & SME ideally in chemicals, pharma, food or Dangerous Goods
- Extensive experience in managing production & engineering teams
- Proven experience of delivering improvements using business improvement tools & techniques
- Experience of bulk liquid handling, blending & filling equipment
- Proven project management skills and delivery of equipment installation
- Proven track record in identifying change and shaping operations
- Advanced excel skills and ability to interpret data
- Experience of Project Management