Manufacturing Manager

Responsibilities

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Manufacturing Manager to join a well-established specialist manufacturer in the Witney area. With growth plans to scale their £100m turnover business to over £200m over the next 5 years, this role is a key component to ensure that their manufacturing targets are met by leading a manufacturing team to deliver against manufacturing/targets and implement continuous and process improvement into manufacturing.

The Manufacturing Manager will need experience of managing and leading a similar medium to high volume manufacturing team. You will need to be able to set and work with manufacturing KPI's, labour efficiency, waste reporting etc. With a key focus on continuous improvement, the successful Manufacturing Manager will have some experience and knowledge of implementing Lean, 5s, 6 sigma etc, any certifications would be highly advantageous.

You will also have experience of managing operators, technicians, supervisors, highlighting training requirements, dealing with recruitment, appraisals and so on.

• Extensive plant level experience with significant proven supervisory experience
• Understanding of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Kaizen, lean manufacturing
• Understanding of manufacturing and procurement/supply chain
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems experience - preferably Sage X3
• Excellent leadership and man-management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Excellent organisational and follow-up skills.
• Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making.
• Constantly seek opportunities for self and career development (management and leadership training, external training/qualifications courses etc.).
• Our client offers a competitive salary, standard day shift, bonus worth circa £6.5k, 25 days annual leave, Employer matched pension scheme, Death in Service scheme, Training & Development, Employee discounts platform (Perkbox), 'WeCare' well-being programme, Cycle-to-work scheme.