Role :                     Production Manager – direct reports: Production Supervisors
Hrs:                       Full-time, working Mon-Thu 8:30am-5pm and Fri 8:30am-3:30pm
Location:              Andover
Salary:                  £55,000
Reporting to:       Operations Director
  
A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Production Manager to work with a growing manufacturing company in the north of Hampshire. You will be responsible for the manufacturing process ensuring production lines are running smoothly and efficiently to maximise output, whilst managing a production team.
  
Key Responsibilities:

• Establish strong working relations with reporting staff to coach, motivate, promote progression and encourage a sound team work ethos through effective communication.
• Working closely with the Head of Operations, Process Engineer, the Planning and Commercial teams (amongst others) to effectively plan and deploy available resources
• Follow and enforce company procedures and policies
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of people, employee participation and processes in conjunction with the Process Engineer
• Prioritise work load effectively for dissemination to supervisor and line leads
• Develop the supervisory team and ensure that at all levels there is appropriate balance of skills to meet current and future demands
• Recruitment and selection of your teams
• Be aware of delivery priorities, operational and financial
• Lead teams to strive for exceptional quality and on time delivery and the monitoring thereof
• Ensure that equipment is fit for purpose and is correctly stored reporting any issues to Maintenance
• Carry out appraisals and setting of objectives
• Deployment of training and development of teams through clearly defined and measurable objectives
• Produce meaningful and accurate key metrics to judge performance and bring about change to meet targets.

Key Requirements:

• Formal education to HNC level or equivalent in electronics/engineering
• Direct experience in PCB/electronics manufacturing
• Demonstrable success in management in a production environment
• Experience of performing in busy and rapidly changing arena