Between £45,000 and £65,000 Per Month
Job description
Description
Roles and responsibilities
- Lead and develop a culture of safety first.
- Lead and develop the manufacturing teams, setting and monitoring KPI’s and setting stretch objectives to support the team and improve in their delivery.
- Ensure resources are optimised and in place to meet manufacturing demand and on time delivery of operational plans, reacting quickly to changes in demand or resources.
Safety
- Ensure full compliance with health and safety regulations and policies, operating best practice methods and driving a safety-first culture through all including but not exhaustive of:
- Ensuring Risk assessments are conducted and regularly maintained.
- Regular safety talks and assessments are being conducted.
- Regular safety audits are conducted, and investigations completed on time.
- All goods are stored safely and always handled appropriately.
- Support with planned maintenance and inspection of all plant.
- Ongoing training is applied to yourself and others to enhance safety standards.
Quality
- Ensure manufacturing compliance with engineering standards.
- Drive best practice methods and continuous improvement to enhance manufacturing quality.
- Develop and maintain competency-based employee assessments and training programmes.
- Conduct regulatory quality-based toolbox talks.
- Ensure incoming goods meet appropriate standards through inspection. (Qty, quality and specification).
- Ensure all products and materials are stored appropriately to prevent deterioration.
Productivity
- Be responsible for the delivery of the operational plan.
- Be responsible for resource planning and effective deployment of staff.
- Be responsible for workforce planning and development to meet the manufacturing strategy of the business.
- Adopt and implement lean manufacturing principles to enhance product throughput and eliminate waste.
- Continuously monitor and manage manufacturing performance to enhance performance levels inclusive of:
- Operating efficiency
- Delivery performance
- Drive continuous improvement to establish effective and efficient manufacturing methods.
Cost control
- Improve operating efficiency to reduce waste and maximise output.
- Analyse and remove nonvalue add activities.
- Eradicate rework through best practice and continuous improvement.
- Ensure preservation of goods through appropriate storage.
- Eradicate manufacturing rework and scrap.
- Ensure sufficient use of inventory and support the improvements to inventory values and stock turns.
- Manage operational risk and support best practice across the supply chain.
- Drive cost reductions though manufacturing operations.
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#J-18808-LjbffrExtra information
- Status
- Open
- Education Level
- Secondary School
- Location
- Eastleigh
- Type of Contract
- Full-time jobs
- Salary indication
- Between £45,000 and £65,000 Per Month
- Published at
- 01-11-2026
- Full UK/EU driving license preferred
- No
- Car Preferred
- No
- Must be eligible to work in the EU
- No
- Cover Letter Required
- No
- Languages
- English
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