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The Company

Our Client is a global market leader in their field and is responsible for engineering, manufacturing, maintaining and servicing world class products

Location
NE England

The Role
Reporting directly to the Operations Manager, you will have direct responsibility for planning and managing the company’s manufacturing, production, maintenance, service and Health and Safety activities on a day to day basis
Ensuring Health and Safety standards are met and surpassed is an integral part of this position
This will be achieved by planning, managing and overseeing work schedules, working from our Clients’ inhouse software system
Conducting daily/weekly/monthly meetings with departmental supervisors across various locations in the UK to ensure our Clients’ manufacturing, production, maintenance, service and Health and Safety expectations are met
Liaising with departments across the business and reporting project progress directly to Operations Manager, is an essential part of this demanding role

The Person
The Production Manager will be a forward thinking dynamic person who is able to multi-task under pressure whilst maintaining a professional, can do attitude at all times
They will have previously held a similar role and be able to demonstrate leadership qualities under pressure
The successful candidate have an engineering background with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role, directly or indirectly managing 70+ employees

Qualifications
Minimum Time Served (or equivalent) in a metal Fabrication/Machine Shop discipline
IOSH/NEBOSH AND Lean Manufacturing certifications are a prerequisite

Salary & Benefits
£45 000 - £50 000pa
3% company contributary pension scheme
Death in Service (3 times salary)
25 Days Annual Leave (+ statutory “Bank Holidays”)

Hours
Dayshift - Monday to Friday

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