Assistant Production Manager

Our client is looking for an Assistant Production Manager to manage day to day operations through team leaders and production staff, ensuring that all personnel work in a productive and risk-free environment.

Some of the daily tasks will involve:

- Ensuring production plan is met daily.

- Allocate work throughout the production areas in liaising with the production planner and production manager.

- Supervise, support and develop the team leaders.

- Control the workflow to meet customer demands and quality expectations.

- Identify training needs for staff and deliver.

- Ensure all staff are working within the company's ISO 9001:2015 guidelines.

- Open and close the site when necessary.

- Stand in for the Production Manager in times of illness or annual leave.

- Presenting ideas at board level.

Whilst training and development will be provied there are some minimum expectations in terms of experience that we are looking for. Including:

- manufacturing experience in a fast-turnaround/high product mix environment.

- Strong planning and time management skills.

- The ability to introduce, implement, and sustain changes when required.

- An assertive but understanding manner.

- Health and safety awareness.

- An understanding of the principles of lean manufacturing and process improvement techniques such as kaizan or six sigma.

- IT literate.

- An understanding of fibre optics is preferred but not essential.

Initial phone screening will take place with Zachary Daniels Technical Recruitment who were responsible for placing the Production Manager into this business a few years ago.