Production Manager

Description:

Production Manager
Bournemouth, Dorset
Production Manager salary: £54,250 – £60,300
Please note: only applicants with the full-time, permanent right to work in the UK will be considered.

Production Manager Overview:

✅ Lead day-to-day shop-floor operations across a specialist manufacturing environment
✅ Own production planning, labour allocation, output, quality and customer delivery
✅ Manage and develop production teams while driving accountability and performance
✅ Use ERP/MRP and production data to control workload, capacity and priorities
✅ Support continuous improvement within an AS9100 / ISO9001 regulated environment

This Production Manager role is with an established specialist manufacturer in Bournemouth, producing engineered components for demanding regulated sectors. The Production Manager will take responsibility for shop-floor operations, making sure customer requirements are delivered safely, efficiently and to the required quality standard.

The role needs a practical manufacturing leader who can balance people, production schedules, resources, quality, delivery and cost while remaining close to day-to-day activity on the shop floor.

The Production Manager role

As Production Manager, you’ll lead production teams across a mix of manual and semi-automated manufacturing processes. You’ll manage priorities, labour and available capacity, monitor progress against schedules and work closely with Quality, Engineering and other departments to resolve issues quickly.

The Production Manager will also be expected to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, improve workflow and use production information to support better operational decisions.

Day-to-day responsibilities of a Production Manager

Lead and coordinate day-to-day manufacturing activity
Plan and schedule production around customer requirements and delivery targets
Allocate labour, equipment and resources across the shop floor
Monitor production progress and respond to risks affecting output or delivery
Lead, supervise and develop production employees
Set clear priorities, responsibilities and performance expectations
Work with Engineering, Quality and other teams to resolve production issues
Maintain compliance with AS9100 and ISO9001 manufacturing requirements
Ensure appropriate Health & Safety standards are maintained across production
Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies and resource constraints
Drive practical continuous-improvement activity
Monitor production costs and support agreed budgetary targets
Use ERP/MRP and planning information to manage workload and capacity
Escalate significant quality, delivery, resource or production issues where requiredWhat they’re looking for - Production Manager

Around 3–5+ years’ experience in Production Management or Manufacturing Management
Strong people-management experience within an industrial or component-manufacturing environment
Good production planning, scheduling and resource-management capability
Confident managing competing priorities and customer delivery requirements
Strong understanding of shop-floor workflow and manufacturing operations
Experience working across Quality, Engineering and wider operational functions
Good understanding of Health & Safety, quality and continuous improvement
Commercial awareness around labour, production cost and efficient resource use
Experience using ERP, MRP or production-planning systems
Strong Excel skills and confidence analysing production information
Practical leadership style with the ability to solve problems quicklyDesirable - Production Manager

Aerospace, defence, medical, nuclear or another regulated manufacturing background
AS9100 and/or ISO9001 experience
Electrical or electronic component manufacturing experience
Low-volume or specialist component manufacturing
Manual and semi-automated production environments
Continuous improvement or production-efficiency project experience
Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations or a related discipline
Experience with wound components, coils, transformers or similar specialist products 

What’s on offer - Production Manager

Production Manager salary: £54,250 – £60,300

Company performance-related bonus scheme and a newly refurbished manufacturing environment.
A broad Production Manager role with genuine ownership of people, planning, output, quality, delivery and continuous improvement. 

How to apply for the Production Manager position

If you’re interested in this Production Manager role, get in touch to talk through the team, manufacturing environment and operational scope.
Call or message Hayden at Holt Engineering on (phone number removed)