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Production Manager
Location: Cricklade, Swindon
Package: Basic Salary £38,000 to £40,000 + Bonus and other Company benefits
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 7am – 3pm
Reporting to: Operations Manager
Protecting what matters, together
We’re dedicated to protecting what matters most - our people, our customers, our communities and the environment. At Macfarlane Packaging, our commitment to customer satisfaction, sustainability and continual improvement creates a highly collaborative, supportive and friendly workplace where you can unpack a career that grows.
With history stretching back over 75 years, we offer stability whilst always striving for continual growth. Our fast-paced, results-driven approach will challenge and often stretch you, but it will also give you opportunities for personal and professional development. Every colleague has the chance to directly influence our success, leading to real job satisfaction and achievement, at all stages of your career.
We provide competitive pay and personalised incentives, alongside adaptable benefits to make your rewards package go further. And Additionally, the way we work prioritises work-life balance and flexibility, empowering our colleagues to manage what is most important to them. Our business values commitment, diligence, teamwork, adaptability and a thirst for learning… so if this sounds like you, come and join us to help drive change that enables businesses to plan for a better future.
The Company
GWP, one of the UK's leading packaging manufacturers, are looking for a Production Manager to join our established team. You will become part of a business established for more than 30 years, with a strong history of producing sustainable and environmentally friendly packaging. Being part of Macfarlane PLC (the UK's largest packaging distributor) and experiencing strong growth over the past three years.
The Production Manager role
We are looking for a Production Manager to oversee a team of 4 Team Leaders, Assembly Manager, Evening Shift Leader, Production Planner and approximately 30+ full time staff. This role is responsible for overseeing the shifts Production facilities, ensuring that the goods are produced efficiently, on time and to a high standard as per the customers’ specification. The role is responsible for completing the daily plan and holding Team Leaders, Assembly Manager and Shift Leader accountable for their team’s performance. This role would suit someone who is very hands on but can also step back and see the bigger picture and make strategic decisions in a fast paced environment.
The Production Manager Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Operations Manager, your role will involve the following activities:
Main
• Oversee the production process, co-ordinate production plans ensuring resources are allocated appropriately. This includes Production and Assembly Unit on day shift.
• Own process efficiency for both shifts, both driving improvements and delegating tasks to the team leaders and their teams;
• Follow the daily plan and be able to change the plan as required to meet customer requirements.
• To build and develop the production team; ensuring people are adequately trained and held accountable to meet performance criteria.
Communications
• Liaise throughout the day with Production Planner and at end of shift with the Evening Shift Leader. Day shift concludes at 3pm, Evening shift commences at 3.15pm.
• Responsible for the upward communication of issues as and when required and handover communications.
• To be fully involved in x 2 daily operations meetings on progress of required jobs.
• To be fully involved in daily assembly meeting.
HR
• To Conduct inductions and probation reviews on new staff and appraising of existing team members annually.
• To continue to improve the absence levels on both shifts by continually monitoring and managing absences via return to works, file notes and disciplinaries.
• Manage clocking of staff making sure they are paid correctly.
• To always be available for staff to speak to you and also invite for conversation and file note where necessary.
• To carry out Disciplinary hearings as required for the Shift.
Health and Safety
• Ensure all safety requirements and training are adhered to at all times as per Health and Safety Policy, risk assessments and Safe Work Practices.
• To encourage safe work practice and use of behavioural observations.
• Manage staff PPE adherence including company uniform.
Quality
• To create quality alerts as and when required to keep operatives focused on what is causing issues for our customers.
• To produce machine figures on a wekly basis and communicate performance to team leaders and manage that they are being communicated down the line to machine operatives.
Do you have the correct profile?
If you have any or all of the following skills and experience, you will be a good fit for this position. However, if you have similar experience working within a Production environment and can demonstrate transferrable skills, please get in touch.
• Previous Management experience in a manufacturing facility of a large team;
• Use of IT systems including MS Office and some type of MRP/Production Planning package;
• Working with heavy manufacturing machinery;
• Experience of coaching and mentoring staff;
• Positive mindset
• Strategic, wants to create a plan for Production going forward.
• Approachable, easy to work with.
• KPI Reporting
Preferred but not necessary experience:
• Experience working with corrugated materials.
• H&S qualification (IOSH)
• Counterbalance Forklift License
• First aid at work qualification
• Lean implementation (Six sigma or similar lean qualification would be advantageous but not necessary)
• JIT/Kanban production – batch methods
• Leadership / Management qualification (ILM, CMI or similar)
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds irrespective of your age, gender, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, gender expression, religion or sexual orientation. Should you require any specific support or adjustments during the recruitment process, please email our recruitment team directly.
Our Benefits
We provide a competitive basic starting salary and operate a rewarding bonus scheme.
The flexible employee benefits can include:-
23 days annual leave plus all public / bank holidays
Long service awards (10-40 years)
Contributory pension scheme
Free on-site parking
Employee assistance programme to support and advise with well-being and any issues
How to apply/next steps
This is an urgent appointment whereby we will be working to identify and review the very best of applicants swiftly in the hope of selecting our favoured candidate to commence with us as soon as possible. To make an application please simply click ‘Apply’ ensuring that you CV is up to date and relevant.
All applications will be acknowledged, shortlist applicants normally hearing from us within two to three weeks. Unsuccessful applicants will also be notified at the end of our process, although if you haven’t heard from us within four weeks of applying, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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