Production Manager

Production Manager
Bognor Regis
Days 37.5 hours
8.00am – 5.00pm Monday – Thursday
8.00am – 1.30pm Friday
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
The Production Manager will provide day to day leadership and management of the Production department and team, communicating with all other departments and the Site Manager. They will manage Production by prioritizing the workload between Production, test and finished goods departments and are responsible for formulating lead times based on resource and material availability for orders raised by Engineering and Customer Services. They are also expected to take ownership of health and safety, team assessment and development, holiday, HR issues and resource planning for the Production team whilst driving improvements in productivity, safety and any other departmental area of interest. The Production Manager should identify key projects and delegate responsibility where necessary to drive business improvement across the department and business. Additionally, to this they will be expected to forecast resourcing and capacity needs based on workload and make decisions as to staffing levels for discussion with senior management.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :
Set and deliver departmental strategy, goals & objectives
Customer satisfaction – ensure department maintains focus to...