Production Manager

2 weeks ago

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Fortune Brands Innovation Full time

Fortune Brands Innovations are a US based company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, that owns and develops a dynamic portfolio of brands for homes worldwide.

Our specialist kitchen and bathroom division, Fortune Brands Water Innovations, is made up of a collection of leading luxury UK brands: Shaws of Darwen, Perrin & Rowe, and Victoria & Albert Baths, which we market under the umbrella brand, House of Rohl.

In addition, Aqualisa completes our portfolio with its market leading digital showering technology.

All of our brands are united by a belief in design, innovation and craftmanship, leading to beautiful and high-quality products.

With manufacturing sites throughout the UK, and a House of Rohl showroom at the Design Centre in London, we currently employ over 600 people who are dedicated to delivering excellent products and service throughout our supply chain. A new multi-million pound state-of-the-art facility at the i54 Business Park in Wolverhampton will be completed later this year, generating exciting new opportunities across the business as we continue to grow.

Our people are what make our business, and we truly care about creating a ‘Home for All’ where employees are empowered to make a difference, and able to bring their authentic selves to work. We are passionate about rewarding excellence and helping people to grow, both personally and professionally, during their time with us.

If you are looking for opportunities within a progressive, innovative, and nurturing organisation; and have the energy, passion, and commitment to deliver excellence, we would love to hear from you.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Production Manager within our Production Department.

In a nutshell, you will be responsible for:

Focusing on planning and executing the production plan, driving safety, quality and improvement activity through shop floor KPIs and instilling a motivated, engaged and disciplined shopfloor culture. 

What you are already great at:

  • Lead the day-to-day manufacturing operations activities, interacting with departments throughout the business and offsite support functions. 
  • Maintain staff moral, performance and discipline. 
  • Maintain a frequent, positive presence on the shop floor. 
  • Working with the EHSS function and driving the development of a positive shop floor EHSS culture, whilst meeting key performance targets and maintaining legal compliance. 
  • Working with the Quality function, drive root cause analysis and product quality standards. 
  • Plan, schedule, and execute workload against capacity 
  • Manage the day to day operation of production, warehouse, packing and final inspection stages 
  • Meet OTIF performance throughout the values stream 
  • Supervise, motivate, train, and develop the manufacturing teams 
  • Review performance and identify training needs of direct reports 
  • Lead and drive the continuous improvement activities in areas of responsibility 
  • Ensure adherence and drive development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) 
  • Provide KPI information as required 
  • Special project work as specified by the operations manager 

For this role we would need you to demonstrate:

  • Minimum 3 years previous experience in a supervisory role 
  • Methodical approach with attention to detail 
  • A people based, motivational management style 
  • Strong experience of Health and Safety processes and procedures 
  • Knowledge of lean foundation tools including but not limited to 7 Wastes, 5S, basic visual management, root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions. 
  • Excellent communication skills 
  • Good analytical and problem solving skills 
  • Ability to work under pressure on own initiative 
  • Computer literate especially MS office 

What your colleagues say about you:

  • An ideas and solutions-focused person
  • An excellent and engaging communicator with the confidence to communicate at all levels
  • Very organised and methodical
  • Able to communicate ideas both verbally and in writing.
  • Very high level of attention to detail

Our Values :

Aligned – in our work together

Agile – in the face of challenge

Accountable – to our promises

Action – with integrity and transparency

Why work for us:

We reward our employees not just for the big headline results we reward our teams for how you have positively contributed to the business and that isn’t always defined by hitting a financial target.

We have a pay for performance culture and reward annually on results. In an ever changing environment its key that you are a curious and nimble learner. We succeed as a team so the ability to collaborate is essential. And to continue to grow and continually challenge you need to ensure you are able to both plan and align so we are all pulling in the same direction.

The benefits bit:

33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)

Employee Assistance Programme

Annual Incentive Plan Bonus Structure

Life Assurance

Health & Wellbeing Programme, including health cash plan and employee assistance

Pension Plan

High St Reward Scheme

Refer a Friend Programme

Free Parking

Frequent Technology User Free Eye Care

Flexible working model

High 5 Employee Recognition Programme

And as an employer who values you, you will be welcomed with open arms and supported to succeed.

Our hiring process:


  1. You will be contacted by a member of our resourcing team for an initial discussion, this may be on Teams.
  2. You will be invited to site for either a 1 or 2 stage process depending on the role.
  3. We will inform you ahead of your interview what we will be discussing, we want to give you the opportunity to shine in these meetings.
  4. Successful candidates will be notified and the start date will be confirmed for when you will be beginning your Fortunes Brand journey.


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