Production Readiness Lead
14 days ago
Rugeley
Job Title: Production Readiness Lead Location: Rugeley Salary: £DOE The Role Are you experienced in scaling production within complex engineering environments? As a dedicated talent partner to ESCO Maritime, we are looking to hire a Production Readiness Lead to drive their capability to meet increasing programme demand and production rates. This is a pivotal role where you will lead a cross-functional readiness programme, ensuring engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, test, and facilities are fully aligned and capable of delivering safely, reliably, and at scale. What you will be doing: • Define and deliver the production readiness strategy to support growth, • Lead cross-functional coordination across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and more, • Drive structured readiness planning (scope, schedule, cost, dependencies), • Implement methodologies such as APQP, Lean, and value stream mapping, • Oversee production trials, pilot runs, and run-at-rate readiness, • Identify capability gaps and implement solutions across people, process, and systems, • Lead readiness reviews, reporting, and stakeholder engagement (internal & customer-facing) What we are looking for: • Proven experience in production ramp-up, industrialisation, or manufactu...