Manufacturing Production Line Manager

We are recruiting for Manufacturing Production Line Manager

Location: Mansfield NG19 7JX

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent, 44 hours per week
Salary: £35,000

About the role:

We are looking for individuals who are driven, reliable, flexible across shift patterns and committed to perform a designated role within the production department ensuring they contribute to the efficient, effective, and safe running of their area/line to fulfil the needs of the business.

Essential skills and experience

Duties will include but not limited to:

• Developing and implementing production policies and procedures.
• Delegating manufacturing tasks to ensure the team meets production deadlines.
• Managing the efforts of manufacturing workers on the production floor.
• Communicating expectations to production workers and appraising their performance.
• Educating production team members about preferred occupational health and safety practices.
• Establishing priorities to ensure the manufacturing team works most efficiently.
• Addressing production problems as they arise.
• Reporting on team performance to the production director.
• Making recommendations about ways to improve employee efficiency and reduce costs.
• Deliver KPI and quality with no fault forward
• Nurturing cooperation and communication within the production team and other departments.
• Work to a high standard to achieve consistence high quality products and liaising with quality manager or quality issues to get the product right for the customer first time
• Delivery company training and initiatives as and when required
• Experience in the Window and Door industry desirable although not essential

Competency and behaviours

• Ability to motivate people, give recognition to staff when things are going well, identify necessary areas of development and have managerial courage when communicating popular or unpopular decisions.
• Be able to provide the best possible solution to problem solving or decision making by conscientiously testing things, examining facts, trying different alternatives, and thinking things through.
• Can set clear objectives, monitor progress, take corrective actions, and control performance levels.
• Be alert to changing situations, show flexibility in approach. Adaptability in difficult circumstances and continuously strive to achieve results.
• Have the outlook to consider problems as challenges and collect information relevant to the problems. Be disciplined in ascertaining the root cause, identify and develop a practical solution, communicate the findings, and implement the action plans to resolves the issue
• Previous experience within a glass manufacturing environment
• Experience producing double glazed units
• Knowledge of glass handling and processing techniques
• Experience working with production machinery

What we offer

• Competitive rates of pay
• Full time, permanent position
• Training and development opportunities
• On-site parking
• Supportive team environment
• Opportunities for career progression
• 20 days holiday and statutory holidays