Production Manager

Production Manager

Full Time

Competitive Salary with 6-Month Performance Bonus

Greater Manchester

Certain Advantage in working in partnership with a Manufacturing Company in the Manchester area. They are actively recruiting a Production Manager with a strong background in precision manufacturing, lean operations, and team leadership?

We are looking for a commercially astute, hands-on leader to take total ownership of our production operations, driving safety, quality, cost-efficiency, and delivery performance.

You will be reporting directly to the General Manager and working alongside senior leadership, you will also be playing a pivotal role in shaping our operational strategy, capacity management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Lead and inspire a diverse production team—including supervisors, team leaders, quality control, and operators—ensuring alignment across safety, quality, cost, and delivery (SQCD).
• Champion a culture of safety and cleanliness, ensuring lean operational practices are embedded and the 8 wastes are systematically eliminated.
• Actively resolve day-to-day shop floor issues, drive high quality standards, and make pragmatic, solution-focused decisions.
• Partner with the General Manager and senior team on business development, capacity planning, staff training, recruitment, and talent retention.
• Maintain an absolute commitment to working safely and ensuring full adherence to site 5S standards.

• Proven experience as a Production Manager within a highly regulated industry
• Deep understanding of lean manufacturing principles, waste elimination, and quality control.
• Commercially astute, highly proactive, pragmatic, and forward-thinking with exceptional timely problem-solving abilities.
• Highly professional verbal and written (email) communication skills, capable of representing the business effectively both internally and externally.
• Proven capacity to manage time and competing priorities efficiently in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.