Production Manager
12 days ago
Gosport
Position: Production Manager (Composite) Job ID: 1378/4 Location: Gosport Rate/Salary: £45 - 50K Type: Full-time, On-site HSB Technical Ltd is a leading specialist recruiter across Power & Propulsion, Shipbuilding, Shipping & Energy, and Aerospace sectors. We connect skilled professionals with reputable clients in the UK and internationally. Typically, this person will be: Production Manager A proven leader from a composites manufacturing environment with strong knowledge Composite construction, advanced composite systems, and production management. Someone capable of driving quality, efficiency, and innovation while managing multi-skilled teams and ensuring a safe, well-run facility. Key Responsibilities of the Composites Manager: • Provide overall leadership for the all Composites on site, ensuring delivery against quality, cost and schedule targets, • Line manage supervisors, chargehands and team leaders, acting as the main escalation and communication point, • Monitor and manage workforce performance, addressing attendance, behaviour and capability issues where required, • Create, maintain and review short-term production plans, reporting progress, risks and delays to key stakeholders, • Champion process improvement and manufacturing best practice to enhance efficiency and product quality, • Contribute to tooling, mould configuration and build methodology to support effective production, • Coordinate workflow and resource deployment to ensure smooth project progression through the facility, • Control engineering drawings and production documentation, ensuring accuracy and revision compliance, • Identify staffing needs and support recruitment, training and development of the department, • Own Health & Safety and site operational standards, ensuring teams are fully resourced to work safely and effectively Essential Skills & Qualifications: • Strong understanding of small craft & big build methods and marine tooling, • Broad hands-on experience with composite manufacturing techniques (infusion, prepreg, wet lay), • Demonstrated leadership experience within marine or composites production environments, • Knowledge of manufacturing-led design and tooling development, • Experience applying Lean and continuous improvement principles, • Proven capability managing production operations with a strong H&S focus, • Clear and confident communicator with strong people skills, • Commercially minded with experience managing multi-project, production-led workloads, • Well-organised, delivery-focused and able to meet programme and budget commitments, • Competent user of Microsoft Office and project planning tools This position is advertised by HSB Technical Ltd, an REC registered recruitment consultancy managing the recruitment process for our client