Automotive Production Manager

**Automotive Production Manager**

**Job Summary**:
The purpose of this role is to organise, coordinate and manage all production activities at the site under the direction of the Site Operations Manager.

The Production Manager will have responsibility for the management and coordination of their allocated shift focusing on cosmetic and mechanical vehicle inspection, preparation and imaging as well as a smooth flow of vehicles throughout the production processes,ensuring that the vehicles are delivered to our logistics team on time and to the right quality standards.

The Production Manager will work on a 554-shift rota over a seven-day working pattern and will be responsible for the line management and coordination of the preparation site. The Production Manager will work very closely with their counterpart to ensurethat workflows and production targets are communicated effectively between alternative shift patterns to ensure that all production targets are exceeded, and a high level of service quality is achieved.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Providing engaging leadership to a large team in a 24/7 operational environment.
- Drive productivity and performance to meet key KPI’s including volume and quality targets
- Take the lead on continuously improving processes to drive efficiency and productivity
- Determine processes and present opportunities for improvements, optimising efficiency and achieving the highest possible throughput of vehicles. Manage QC control and processes to minimise reworks and complaints
- Ensure all Production Supervisor(s) have a thorough understanding of targets and provide effective communication to the teams.
- Work to and achieve individual and site targets - including performance, efficiency, quality, and productivity.
- Map vehicle routes into refurbishment and distribute workflows to maximise capacity
- Measure the impact of delays, disruptions and/or changes to plans and implement appropriate solutions.
- Ensure a robust control of paint and materials costs
- Drive absence management across the site.
- Conduct operations reviews.
- Work closely with the training team to identify and support employee training and development plans.
- Evaluate the team’s performance and diarise staff reviews.
- Provide advice, support and technical assistance to your team
- Facilitate the induction of new team members

**Required skills and experience**:

- Decision making and judgement: Make timely, informed decisions that take into account the facts, goals, constraints and risks.
- Drive for results: The ability to identify, manage, exceed targets and grow the business.
- Organisational awareness: Keeping up to date with issues that may impact on the organisation and identifying ways of promoting the organisation.
- People management: The ability to understand people and their motivations, build good relationships with them and achieve their results through the efforts of others as well as your own.
- Drive for excellence: Demonstrating an understanding of financial impact of decisions that are made at all levels of the organisation.

Along with a competitive salary, we offer an outstanding benefits package, including annual bonus and 23.5 days holiday (plus an extra day for your birthday). At Cazoo we are passionate about well being as such we provide an annual wellness fund and arepartnered with a leading healthcare provider. We also offer up to 5% salary matched pension scheme, along with life insurance and critical illness cover.

**Useful Information**

Founded in 2018, Cazoo is backed by leading investors and has a highly experienced team, led by Founder & CEO, Alex Chesterman OBE.

Cazoo are an equal opportunity employer and they value diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, colour, religion, national origin, disability status or marital status.