Production Manager

JOB TITLE: Production Manager

LOCATION: Hingham, Norfolk (NR9) – Office based role

DEPARTMENT: Production

SALARY: Competitive

HOURS: Full time/perm - 38 hrs-Standard shift: Monday-Thursday 8am - 4:30pm, Friday 8am - 2:30pm (finish early). Banked hours for additional hours worked during busy times.

Are you an experienced production/manufacturing professional with a passion for innovation and excellence? Do you thrive in leading a demanding serial volume production assembly factory?

As we continue to grow, we are seeking a talented Production Manager to lead our production team and contribute to our success. This pivotal role will see you leading, managing and shaping the production departments to effectively support the ramp up to a high-volume aircraft interiors manufacturing facility

About the role

Applying your expertise, you will help to optimize the performance, efficiency, safety, and cost of our products and processes using Lean methodology, whilst supporting multiple new product development (NPD) Projects, production readiness and the design and implementation of lean manufacturing cells to ensure production viability on launch.

In your role as our Production Manager, you will have departmental responsibility of Production, Warehouse & goods receiving/dispatch along with health & safety and will:

• Support development of production capability in collaboration with Operations Director and Manufacturing Engineering.
• Have full accountability for all production delivery targets and budgets.
• Drive implementation of lean daily management following TPS model.
• Identify, lead and implement cost down and efficiency programmes.
• Collaborate with, and drive, all supporting departments to ensure targets are achieved.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the production team.
• Recruit and develop production personnel.

About you

To help Mirus continue our journey of growth, you will bring your expertise within a production/manufacturing capacity, a passion for innovation, problem solving and drive for operational excellence along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

• Experience as an results driven production leader.
• A familiarisation with the aviation culture, comfortable operating within the demanding requirements of this sector.
• Be commercially astute, familiar with a serial production in a lean environment and driven to ensure factory targets and KPIs are met whilst ensuring the necessary procedures are rigorously followed.
• Excellent personable managerial skills who leads from the front and is able to develop the production team to ensure the business is prepared, and able, to deliver both current and future volume requirements.
• Experience in leading a demanding serial volume production factory
• Significant experience from within either automotive or aircraft OEM or First Tier supply companies.
• Demonstrable experience implementing and/or working in a Lean environment and use of lean tools and methodology
• Engineering biased HNC / HND or equivalent experience
• Well-developed leadership skills, able to work across all functions to ensure maximum collaboration.
• Thrive in a challenging environment, be approachable and have a flexible attitude
• With changing workloads and demands, you must be flexible and able to work hours as required to support the success of their department.

We really want to hear from you, so don’t miss your opportunity to join our community of passionate and exceptional people who challenge the accepted norm! Once you apply, your CV will be held on our central database. Please do let us know if you do not wish for us to retain your details. If your application is successful, you will be contacted in due course.

If you're ready to take the next step in your career and be a part of a company that values your skills and contributions, we encourage you to apply for our Production Manager position. Come on a journey with us and be part of shaping the future of production excellence!

Please kindly note, at this moment in time we are respectfully not engaging with any agencies for our roles.