Production Operations Manager

Salary: £78,000 per year

Production Operations Manager, Stourbridge, West Midlands

Salary & Package: Guideline £78,000+ benefits, flexible for the right person

Production Operations Manager Production Manager to join a manufacturing business. The Manufacturing Operations are growing, and this Production Operations Manager will focus on manufacturing efficiencies and production team development. Core activities and production operations deliverables:

·Manufacturing productivity decision making in terms of production batch size versus changeovers, buffer stock, scheduling and planning.

·Leadership of staff engagement across manufacturing, e.g. ensuring 1-2-1’s are completed by team leaders, also working with colleagues outside of production operations to improve working conditions, pay grades and real-world steps to improve availability and commitment at Operator level.

·Driving the daily productivity drum beat, openly challenging instances or poor standards, and openly praising a good job.

·Setting budgets and controlling costs around overtime, non-standard haulage and transport, production materials and consumables.

·Development of production leadership by up skilling manufacturing supervisors, increasing problem solving, decision making and helping them to establish what good looks like.

·Working closely with Production Process Engineers and Manufacturing Team Leader Supervisors this is a highly visible Production Operations Manager role.

Salary & Package: Guideline £78,000+ benefits, flexible for the right person

This job will suit a Production Operations Manager with:

·The ability to make decisions about batch size and buffer stock, communicating these decisions and ensuring the plan is followed through with labour planning, and a balanced outcome of WIP costs and efficiency.

·Some experience of improving pay grades, working terms & conditions and staff engagement at shop-floor operator level.

·Experience of metal components manufacturing and supplying into the automotive sector.

·A visible manufacturing leader, able to guide supervisors and team leaders, and be a beacon of what good looks like in terms of work place disciplines, clear and regular communication about shift targets, acceptable behaviour and praise where it is due.

You will be joining a team with something of a turn around mission. Customers are on board and supportive of this, and for a person that brings energy to the work place this will be an extremely rewarding role.

This job is commutable from Dudley, Wolverhampton, Telford, Stourbridge, Kidderminster and surrounding areas.

“With our apologies, please note that if you are not contacted within the next ten days then your application, on this occasion, has not been successful. We thank you for taking the time to apply.”

Reference: IY.VG7822