Title: Production Manager
Location: Wigton | Cumbria | Carlisle
Hours: 40 hours per week - 8am - 5pm (flexible working)
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 per annum
Are you a hands-on Production leader with a passion for holiday lodges or luxury caravans? We're looking for a dedicated and experienced Production Manager to join our Manufacturing Factory in Carlisle. This is a chance to be a key part of our operations, where you'll be leading from the front and driving performance.
The Role
As a Production Manager, you won't just be managing-you'll be an active part of the team. You'll be prominent based at site leading all aspects of the manufacturing process, the production and engineering and fitting team, external contractors, the factory facilities and overseeing the installations around the country. Your role is crucial in ensuring our operations run smoothly and accurately.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead Production: Oversee all factory staff and operations to ensure the safe, accurate, and timely build of units.
- Safety & Compliance: Ensure daily H&S compliance, conduct regular safety walkarounds and audits, and ensure all machinery certifications and periodic servicing are up to date.
- Efficiency & Monitoring (75% Floor Time): Maintain a highly visible presence on the shop floor to monitor work rate, problem-solve, and ensure efficiency; strictly monitor target vs. actual hours.
- Quality Assurance: Implement and check dimensional/visual quality checks throughout the build process.
- Planning & Logistics: Lead production meetings to plan current/future labour and materials, and coordinate finished unit transport/deliveries with external teams.
- Performance Reporting: Prepare monthly board reports, present production statistics (targets, delivery, KPIs) in management meetings, and continuously report on efficiencies.
- Inventory & Procurement: Oversee the stores department (usage, restock, reordering) and produce material requisitions for the buyer.
- Continuous Improvement: Orchestrate feedback forums and work with the wider team to install, measure, and report on business KPIs.
- Team & HR Management: Motivate the team, manage attendance/absenteeism according to HR protocol, and ensure staff training is planned and executed.
What We're Looking For:
- Proven experience within the luxury caravan or lodge industry.
- Several years experience managing a large scale manufacturing factory.
- Experience managing delivery, feedback, planning, and KPIs.
- Excellent leadership, motivational, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills from report to the board to 1-2-1s with the team.
- The ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
- A positive, can-do attitude and a commitment to teamwork.
Factory Manager, Team Leader, Production Team Leader, Warehouse Supervisor, Production Supervisor, Distribution Supervisor, Operations Supervisor, Warehouse Shift Leader
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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