Production Manager
hace 10 días
Buxton
Production Manager • Production / Manufacturing Facility, • Market Leading Salary Package, • Monday-Friday - Day Shift About the role Lead production across our clients operations, reporting directly to the Plant Manager. You'll manage a large, established team of around 60 people, with responsibility for a 24/7 process environment where safety, quality, and operational performance are critical. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on delivering safe, reliable output while building a collaborative culture - leading through influence. You'll work closely with Maintenance and other stakeholders, take ownership of cost control and play a key part in their sustainability journey - one of the site's top priorities alongside safety. Responsibilities • Lead the day-to-day production and packing plant operations, ensuring safe, consistent 24/7 performance through effective leadership and handover routines, • Manage and develop a team of up to 60 employees, including direct leadership of Production Coordinators, a Production Engineer, and an Administrator, • Champion a positive, collaborative site culture - handling difficult conversations and decisions while avoiding overly directive, "bang the table" leadership styles., • Drive a proactive safety culture across high-risk operations (e.g., high temperatures, chemical hazards, confined spaces), ensuring standards are maintained at all times, • Own key production performance outcomes, balancing output, quality, and efficiency in a process/chemical manufacturing environment where product quality is critical., • Lead the site's sustainability journey within production, identifying solutions and improvements as the business progresses toward lower CO2 impact operations, • Plan and deliver the annual plant shutdown, ensuring safe execution, effective contractor management, cost control, and strong on-site leadership throughout the shutdown period, • Manage fixed-cost budgets and contribute to variable cost control, ensuring robust financial discipline and reporting, • Collaborate closely with maintenance and other functions to prioritise work, reduce operational risk, and support continuous improvement across the plant, • Provide management-level decision-making and support out of hours when required to maintain safe, stable operations in a 24/7 manufacturing environment Requirements • Must be from a heavy industry background such as steel, cement, chemical process plant., • Strong people-management capability, with experience leading large operational teams (c. 50+), including handling difficult conversations and decisions, • Solid technical understanding of process/production operations where product quality and process control are critical, • Strong safety mindset and experience managing higher-risk environments (e.g., high temperatures, chemical hazards, confined spaces), • Experience working cross-functionally with maintenance, engineering, and other stakeholders to maintain safe, reliable production, • Track record of continuous improvement, with the ability to drive change in a collaborative, "team player" leadership style, • Ability to support sustainability goals and contribute to an evolving sustainability journey within operations, • Budget accountability experience, including fixed-cost control and contractor/contract management exposure (e.g., during shutdowns), • Comfortable being the key decision-maker when issues arise out of hours, in support of a 24/7 operation This is a fantastic opportunity with a very well cultured business, If you are keen to hear more, please APPLY TODAY.