Production Manager Letchworth Garden City

**Production Manager Letchworth Garden City £Highly Competitive Salary & Package** - **Are you a Production Manager / Manufacturing Manager / Operations Manager?**: - **Do you have Operations, Manufacturing or Production Management experience within an Engineering, Manufacturing, Production Environment?**: - **Do you have proven managenent experience in driving & implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement tools / techniques to deliver World Class?**: - **Do you want to work for a Global Engineerin g & Manufacturing Company who place their people at the heart of everything they do?** **If so, then please see below....** **Production Manager Letchworth Garden City £Highly Competitive Salary & Package** **Progressive Engineering and a Global Engineering & Manufacturing Company, specialising in Engineered Solutions for Industrial Applications are looking to recruit a Production Manager on a staff basis for their Engineering & Manufacturing HQ in theLetchworth Garden City area (Hertfordshire), owing to succession planning within the business.** **Reporting into the Operations Director, the Production Manager will be instrumental in delivering World-Class Manufacturing Operations and have full responsibility for end-to-end operations & management of a Value Stream (Order Receipt - Manufacturing - Customer Shipping), including direct responsibility for operations personal & ensuring that KPI's for Quality, Delivery, Cost & Growth are met.** **Role & Responsibilities of Production Manager**: - Create a vision and plans to transform the value stream to drive improved safety, quality, delivery and productivity - Develop and execute plans to ensure continuous improvement of all process - Ensure that safety, quality, delivery, cost and growth KPI's are achieved - Develop and implement a technology roadmap for the value stream to improve manufacturing efficiency and reduce employee burden - Ensure full compliance with all applicable safety standards and rules - Overall responsibility for a team of circa 75 (incl. supervisors, team leaders, process engineering, production planning & operators) - Work closely with other business areas (Product Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales & HR) to ensure a "whole-team" approach is taken to achieving daily, weekly and monthly sales targets. - Coordination of forecasting processes and planning resources appropriate to the expected workload, balancing capacity with demand - Effectively manage & deliver Health, Safety and Welfare standards - Drive high levels of employee engagement and involvement across the Value Stream **For this Production Manager role, my client is looking a Production Manager with the following Skills, Qualification & Experience**: - Holds HNC / HND / Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing or Production - Previous experience as a Production Manager / Manufacturing Operations Manager / Operations Manager within an Engineering, Manufacturing or Production environment (Engineered Products), operating at a senior level within a structured organization. - Proven leadership & people management experience, leading, managing, mentoring and developing teams (both direct & indirect reports - matrix structure) within a Manufacturing or Production environment - Proven experience driving & implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement tools / techniques to deliver World Class Manufacturing (ideally holding LEAN accreditation and/or formal training) and meet / exceed KPI's, LEAN / CI Targets for profitablegrowth For the successful **Production Manager**, a highly competitive salary and benefits package is on offer and this **Production Manag**er role is commutable from Hitchin, Letchworth, Luton, Royston, Bedford, Milton Keynes, St Neots, Huntingdon, St Albans, Stevenage, Hatfield, Hertford, Ware & Epping. Progressive Recruitment, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148England and Wales