Production Manager – Manufacturing
Coventry | £55,575–£56,810 + 7.5% Bonus + Excellent Benefits | 4 on 4 off Continental Shifts
You will like
Leading production and people for a world-class manufacturer at a major, highly invested manufacturing facility in Coventry, West Midlands.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Production Manager, Production Shift Manager, Manufacturing Manager or Shift Manager to join a major global organisation offering impressive facilities, excellent benefits and genuine long-term career progression.
Based at a large manufacturing site in South Coventry, close to Middlemarch Business Park, Coventry Airport and Baginton, you will take ownership of a production area and lead approximately 40–60 people, ensuring safe, efficient and high-quality manufacturing performance.
The role works a 12-hour continental shift pattern: 4 days on, 4 days off, 4 nights on, 4 nights off.
You will like
The Production Manager job itself, where you will take responsibility for people and operational performance across your production area.
This is first and foremost a leadership role: setting direction, developing people, solving problems and making effective decisions within a complex, fast-paced manufacturing environment.
More specifically, you will:
- Lead, coach and develop approximately 40–60 frontline production employees
- Take ownership of production performance, safety, quality and people
- Champion a strong safety culture and safe working practices
- Protect product quality and maintain high manufacturing standards
- Manage attendance, conduct and individual/team performance
- Deliver meaningful 1-to-1s, coaching and employee development
- Use production data and KPIs to understand and improve performance
- Solve operational problems and make confident decisions
- Balance competing priorities within a demanding production environment
- Work collaboratively with engineering, operations and other stakeholders
- Take ownership and accountability when senior management is not immediately available
You will have
To succeed as Production Manager / Production Shift Manager, you will be an established people leader with experience gained within a sizeable, complex manufacturing, engineering or operational environment.
You will demonstrate:
- Strong manufacturing or production management experience
- Leadership of sizeable frontline, shop-floor or operational teams
- Excellent coaching and people-development capability
- Confidence managing performance and difficult conversations
- Strong safety, quality and operational awareness
- Structured problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Experience working with production data, KPIs and performance measures
- Confidence making decisions with incomplete information
- Ownership, accountability and sound judgement under pressure
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills
Food or FMCG experience is not essential. Relevant backgrounds could include FMCG, food manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, engineering, process manufacturing, heavy manufacturing or other complex/high-volume production environments. Strong military operations and leadership experience may also transfer well.
You will get
As Production Manager, you will enjoy an excellent package including:
- £45,000–£46,000 basic salary
- 23.5% shift allowance
- £55,575–£56,810 total salary
- 7.5% annual bonus
- Private healthcare
- Excellent pension – up to 10% company contribution
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits
- Excellent training and professional development
- Genuine internal career progression
- Long-term opportunity within a major global manufacturer
This represents an excellent opportunity to develop your manufacturing leadership career within a large-scale, sophisticated production environment backed by a highly successful international organisation.
You can apply to this Production Manager opportunity by pushing the button on this job posting (recommended), or by sending your CV in confidence to anthony@macstaff.co.uk.
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