Elevation Recruitment Group
We are recruiting a Production Manager for a heavy manufacturing operation based in Hull. This is a hands on leadership role for someone who wants to be on the shopfloor every day, not stuck behind a desk.
The Business Our client is an established manufacturing business running a high volume production facility. They are looking for a Production Manager who can lead from the front and get the best out of their supervisors and shopfloor teams.
The Role
- Own the shopfloor. Be visible, support your supervisors and remove whatever is blocking production.
- Take charge of health and safety. Safe practices, sharp housekeeping, no shortcuts.
- Deliver the daily production plan by managing labour, machinery and workflow in real time.
- Coach supervisors into confident leaders who can run their own areas without you standing over them.
- Build multi-skilled teams and tackle poor performance early, fairly and consistently.
- Drive continuous improvement. Cut waste, improve machine utilisation, back good ideas from the floor.
- Work tightly with Planning, Maintenance, Quality, Warehouse and Transport to keep production supplied and on track.
The Person
- Manufacturing leadership experience in a heavy manufacturing setting, ideally with exposure to timber or wood based processing.
- Equally, background in other manufacturing environments running heavily automated, continuous feed machinery, such as edge banding lines, would be valued.
- Background as a Production Supervisor, Shift Manager or Production Manager.
- Solid grasp of production flow, machine utilisation and labour management.
- A track record of lifting production performance through hands on shopfloor leadership.
- Approachable, fair and consistent. Sets high standards and challenges poor performance without drama.
- Calm under pressure, decisive, and genuinely invested in developing people.
- Always looking for a safer, simpler or better way to get the job done.
If this sounds like the right next step for a Production Manager role in Hull, get in touch to find out more.
About Elevation Recruitment Group Elevation Recruitment Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy that helps people build long term, successful careers. We work across a wide range of industries and disciplines with a focus on making recruitment feel more human, more honest and more effective. We are specialists in every function and experts in every hire. Check out our website to find out more.
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