Production Manager

Production Manager

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Working model and hours –

on-site Mon-Fri 8:00am-4:00pm

Production Manager leads the Operations team to achieve high performance by setting clear goals, providing effective coaching, and facilitating development plans. This person will prioritize team losses, remove barriers, and offer regular feedback and recognition. The role involves daily management to ensure goals related to safety, quality, productivity, cost, and service are met.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the Operations team to high performance in line with HPO (High Performance Organization) standards and cultural framework through effective coaching and facilitation.
  
  
• Sets clear expectations & goals, including development plans. Prioritises team losses, removes team barriers, provides regular performance and talent feedback to employees and rewards and recognises performance achievements.
  
  
• Coaches and supports the daily management of the team to prioritise work and achieve goals (Safety, Quality, PR, Cost, Service).
  
  
• Creates an atmosphere of 100% compliance to operational processes and procedures (SOPs), health & safety practices, world class manufacturing practices (GMP), and 5S / Visual Factory standards.
  
  
• Delivers daily KPI updates and meeting forums to report and support performance.
  
  
• Ensures timely management and clarity of escalations to drive performance at the required efficiency for the site.
  
  
• Delivers the planning and organisation of the overall workforce, focusing on improving the work environment. This includes recruitment, on-boarding, employee development and succession planning to ensure continuity of delivery.
  
  
• Coordinates and ensures execution of the activities of the Operations team to deliver against business needs, utilising support functions as necessary.
  
  
• Builds and optimises the production planning with the Scheduling department to maximise output and performance. Adapts and prioritizes in case of delays.
  
  
• Communicates challenges and delivers plan improvements to ensure customer service levels remain above target.
  
  
• Participates in the improvement of technical skills and knowledge of the team, working closely with the Training Lead to ensure compliance.
  
  
• The owner of performance improvement across all KPIs for the Operations team.
  
  
• Actively participates and is source of proposals for the performance improvement of the area.
  
  
• Utilises problem solving tools and TPM methodologies to continually improve equipment and processes. Leads root cause analysis when required for failures that meet the applicable threshold.
  
  
• Management of equipment and consumables purchases for Operations to ensure the team and the tools to perform and deliver in their roles.
  
  
• Act as a facilitator for project and trial work, representing the Operations team and supporting activities that benefit improvements and growth.
  
  
• Be an embedded member of the trinomen team with Engineering and Process Engineering, working proactively to make improvements wherever needed in relation to performance KPI’s.
  
  CANDIDATE PROFILE
  
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Management or relevant discipline. Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
  
  
• Solid experience working in similar role in FMCG environment (food manufacturing preferred) with highly automated equipment.
  
  
• Relevant Team Leadership experience, including providing mid-level sponsorship (coaching, training, etc.) and behavioral modeling to the team.
  
  
• Experience working in TPM or Lean environments preferred (Keizen, Six Sigma).
  
  
• Certification within the production and/or inventory field preferred.
  
  
• Establish team discipline for the established processes and structures that have been created to support organizational goals. Maintain a sense of urgency to meeting scheduling plans and customer requirements.
  
  
• Considers what is motivating to the individual in improving performance and recognizing contributions.
  
  
• Adopts a short- and long-term perspective in setting clear objectives to deliver results aligned to strategy.
  
  
• Facilitates collaboration across levels, organizations, functions, and geographies to secure effective problem solving and decision making.
  
  
• Creates collaborative work environments; challenges and empowers others to identify new and better ways of working.
  
  
• Creates and identifies opportunities for learning and development that stretch and grow employee capabilities.
  
  
• Encourages people to develop solutions through their own approach, emphasizing positive results over process. Builds networks to drive connectivity, share information and insights, and work effectively across organizational lines. Availability to work non-standard hours or weekends in case of emergency/business need.
  
  COMPANY
  
  At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.
  
  Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales., the Company manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.
  
  While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 50 locations in 27 countries and 135 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America with recognized brands including Schwartz.
  
  At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values.
  
  Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.
  
  McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
  
  As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies