Manufacturing Manager
£35,000 to £45,000 depending on experience
Trafford Park
Permanent
Manufacturing Manager
The Candidate
You will be an experienced Manufacturing Manager / Production Manager / Operations Manager who has experience of working in a world class manufacturing environment. With a strong knowledge in lean and six sigma you will also have the following skills, experience and attributes…
⦁ A strong Health and Safety mentality with an IOSH / NEBOSH qualification.
⦁ At least 5 years’ experience leading a multi shift team.
⦁ Must have experience of multi department management
⦁ Knowledge of printing technology ideal but not essential.
⦁ Evidence of success coaching / mentoring team members.
⦁ Ideally you will have a knowledge of Six Sigma and have earned a yellow or green belt
⦁ Compliant in CI methodologies, and able to deliver strategic data evidence to board level.
⦁ The ability to work to targets and achieve KPI’s
⦁ Able to manage, motivate and lead a team to achieve targets
⦁ Excellent prioritisation skills and able to juggle competing demands
⦁ Must have a can-do attitude, welcome a challenge, and approach hard work with a positive outlook.
⦁ Excellent customer focus and commitment to ensuring customer satisfaction
⦁ Attention to detail
⦁ Computer literate: knowledge of Microsoft office
⦁ Able to remain calm under pressure
⦁ Good problem-solving skills
The Role
You will be responsible for 4 direct reports and 70 indirect reports across 3 shifts and 3 different production departments. The company operates in a modern manufacturing environment with state-of-the-art machinery and is well on the way in their lean manufacturing journey. Your role will be to facilitate this journey embracing a culture of continuous improvement while mentoring, developing and leading the team. Your main responsibilities will include…
This will involve using your world class manufacturing knowledge to ensure all operational targets for H&S, Quality, Cost, Service and employee engagement are achieved and continually improved.
⦁ Maintain a safe and legal working environment – lead role for H&S compliance.
⦁ Delivery of KPIs focussing on Health & Safety, Quality, Cost and Service. This will include machine efficiency, error rate and meeting customer SLAs
⦁ Continually improve systems and processes to reduce the lead-time to our customers.
⦁ Continually improve the quality to enhance the customer experience.
⦁ Manage, as part of a team, the maintenance of the equipment to maximise uptime.
⦁ Lead and motivate the Team Leader group to achieve and exceed their departmental goals.
⦁ Contribute to the employee engagement and cultural journey by living the core values.
⦁ Identify capacity issues and suggest investment options.
⦁ Liaise with HR to plan and execute excellent recruitment, training and development for all team members.
⦁ Liaise with Finance to monitor departmental spend and ensure value for money is achieved.
⦁ Be part of the out of hours response team.
⦁ Take ownership of product manufacture, from cradle to grave, with a right first time, every time attitude.
⦁ Be the pinnacle in cultural improvement and be key to the overall improvement of the business.
⦁ Stay at the forefront of technology developments within the garment decoration industry
The Company
Our client is a market leader and is experiencing year on year growth of around 20%. An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Manufacturing Manager to join the business and help to deliver and be part of this growth.

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Restore Digital is a leading independent provider of document scanning, business process automation solutions, and professional consultancy services. Our customers trust us with their business critical and highly sensitive data. We have helped NHS Trusts, Central Government, Nuclear, and Police Authorities, amongst other industries, begin their digital transformation journey and save £millions while protecting against risk.  We also offer the largest scanning capacity in Europe.  We are one of five business units of Restore plc and are rapidly expanding and looking for hardworking and enthusiastic people to join a highly successful and established team in Warrington.

Our Production Manager supports our Team Leaders ensuring that work is carried out to production targets, job specs, and quality standards in line with customer requirements.  They support our busy team leaders through regular coaching and guidance to ensure they are confident and competent to deliver what’s needed.  In addition to this they are the digitisation lead for the site and come to the role with a thorough understanding of the digitisation process for document scanning.  Confidentiality is a must too and our Production Manager is security cleared to the Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).  Our hours of work are 7.30am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday.

We offer a competitive salary along with all the training and support you will need to be a success in your new role.  In addition to the usual benefits, we also have a company benefits system which offers discounts on everything from holidays and cinema tickets, to meals out and much more. 

Control Panel Manufacturing Manager

An exciting position has become available for a full time Control Panel Manufacturing Manager to join a friendly team based in Widnes. The successful candidate will earn £32,000 upwards depending on experience. Ideally the applicant must have good experience within the control panel industry and have technical ability to communicate with engineers and project managers. The applicant would benefit from having electrical & mechanical knowledge.

Role Requirements

•Strong management skills
•Ability to understand electrical schematic drawings
•Planning labour with assistance from the projects team
•Good communication skills
•Ability to identify drawing problems
•Problem solving & Strong decision making
•Customer facing
•Commercial awareness against projects

Role Responsibilities

•Having overall accountability for the safety of the employees working within the manufacturing areas.
•Being accountable for manufacturing process quality; managing adherence to quality standards and procedures.
•Holding accountability for achieving customer delivery and manufacturing schedule adherence targets including implementation of continuous improvement strategies.
•Analysing and interpreting data to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness of production output.
•Leading, developing, and motivating staff members

Company

Our client is a Cheshire based Technical Controls & Automation company.

They are a busy technical automation company who specialise within a wide range of sectors but not limited to: - Automotive, Pharmacy, Oil & Gas, food & Beverage and Chemical.

All projects are designed inhouse and are bespoke to each customer’s needs.

Why should you apply?

•To join a fantastic company
•To become part of a great team
•To showcase your knowledge and skill set

If you’re the ideal candidate our client is looking for, please send your CV by clicking the APPLY button

Keywords: Control Panel, Manufacturing Manager, Management, Panel, Technicians, Workshop, Electrical Schematic Drawings, Drawing, Bespoke

Production Manager – DAYS

Reference: Jo2171/SB/MON
Days - Monday to Friday
Salary: £30,000 to £35,000 + Pension + Benefits
Location: Huddersfield

The Company

My Client is one of the UK’s leading privately owned manufacturers within their sector who have been established over 40 years. Supplying their products into the construction industries the group has gone from strength to strength over the last decade to become centre of excellence within the industry they specialise in. Due to further expansion within the UK market; they need to recruit a production manager.  

Key Skills

• Experience as a Production Supervisor/Manager
• Plastics/PVCu Experience or Similar Processes
• IOSH & Budgetary Control within a Management Role

The Role

The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of day-to-day production, manufacturing operations on site. You will be responsible for managing a team of supervisors/operatives together with the complete production & engineering facilities on this site. The ideal candidate will come from a plastics or similar manufacturing/operations background, with experience in continuous improvement, lean manufacturing techniques and a working knowledge of IOSH & TPM. This successful candidate will conduct appraisals with employees and operationally manage key performance indicators across all areas of production & engineering, to ensure that all targets are hit, to fulfil their customer requirements. This is a challenging role, though the rewards for success are excellent, with the opportunity to develop into a more senior role within this forward thinking organisation.

If you are interested in this role please send a copy of your current CV using the details provided, interviews will be held locally, and the company is looking to recruit this role as soon as possible.
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About Instil Bio

Instil Bio is a cell therapy company developing tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) for the treatment of solid tumor cancers. TIL are a patient’s own T cells harvested from the patient’s tumor, which are then expanded and reinfused into the patient to target and kill cancer cells. Instil is advancing its proprietary TIL manufacturing expertise, technology, and data into clinical trials, including a planned registrational study with its lead candidate and a first-in-human study of its next-generation engineered TIL. The company is led by world-class cell therapy experts and backed by premier global institutional investors.

Instil Bio UK is Instil’s rapidly-growing, Manchester UK-based subsidiary. Our Manchester subsidiary has significant R&D, process development, and clinical manufacturing capabilities, with approximately 35 staff expanding to > 100 staff. Instil Bio UK has been generating cell therapy products for patient use since 2011, including TIL products and external partner genetically engineered T cell products.

Manufacturing Manager – Cell Therapy

Instil Bio UK is now recruiting a Manufacturing Manager, responsible for supporting the Director of Manufacturing (UK) in building, training, managing and mentoring manufacturing staff within the Manufacturing function at Instil Bio (UK)’s clinical manufacturing facilities in Manchester, UK. You will be responsible for leading, developing and managing staff to manufacture batches to meet clinical demand, achieve improvements in planned aseptic manufacturing production, pharmaceutical awareness, cGMP, capacity utilisation, quality, cost and supply plans and activities in compliance with company, regulatory, pharmaceutical standards.

As the Manufacturing Manager you will be required to: 

•    Support the Dir. Of Manufacturing in strategic planning and leadership to meet site and global objectives. 

•    To recruit, train, develop and coach technical team members such that increased focus is put on pharmaceutical awareness and operating standards as well as job skills and knowledge of an advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP)

•    Ensure manufacturing operations adhere to regulatory requirements (US, UK, and EU) 

•    Work with QC and QA to ensure on-time product release per specification 

•    Work with supply chain to plan production schedules, receive material and execute on-time product manufacturing 

•    Through implementation of Continuous Improvement philosophy, manage and improve pharmaceutical standards, awareness & compliance within the technical team (measures: CAPA close out, NCR close out, clean room standards, engineering standards); 

•    Implement operational excellence principles to ensure accelerating manufacturing cadence meets clinical targets 

•    Setting, communicating, tracking, and reporting KPI’s at a personal and departmental level 

•    Champion a continuous improvement culture; work cross-functionally with Manufacturing Sciences and Technology (MS&T) and Quality to improve manufacturing operations in a compliant manner 

•    Work cross-functionally on new product introduction and process changes (transfers, improvements, validation) 

•    Ensure processes are followed for change controls, deviations/investigations, CAPAs, process transfers, validations, risk analysis, and mitigations

The role is not required to be on a shift pattern but will require establishing multiple teams and shifts to deliver product through clinical trial according to targets. Flexibility may be required to take calls or do some work from home outside normal business hours.

Relevant Education Skills and Experience

This role will involve hiring and building teams along with team management. It will involve developing and leading other manufacturing and manufacturing support staff. To be successful it is anticipated you will have gained the following skills, traits, and experience:

•    Team management and people development. Ability to successful manage manufacturing operations through good planning and resourcing. Eye for detail to ensure right first-time operational excellence.

•    At least 5 years of experience managing operational teams Managing at least 12 staff. Experience of implementing strategic decisions through organised teams. Experience representing manufacturing on large multi-disciplinary project teams 10+ years relevant GMP aseptic cell culture manufacturing experience (e.g. cell therapy, gene therapy, biologics, vaccine)

•    BS degree in life sciences, engineering or related field, advanced degree, e.g. MS, MBA, and/or PhD preferred Quality Systems used in GMP environments Knowledge of GMPs and compliance within the biopharmaceutical industry

•    A target driven team builder who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment

•    Detailed planning and resource management Very good communication and interpersonal motivation skills Ability to accommodate flexible working hours depending on work nee

The following experience may be considered an advantage but is by no means essential to a successful application:

•    Guidance and compliance with MHRA, HTA, European Directives or FDA guidance for Cell Therapies

•    Experience in cell therapies/ATMPs 

•    Experience with managing shift working

Remuneration & Benefits

The salary for the Manufacturing Manager will be competitive within the Biotechnology and wider Scientific sector with actual salary offered reflecting relevant qualifications and experience as well as performance at interview. In any event we anticipate a salary in the £45,000 to £55,000 range together with an attractive bonus and benefits package.

Application Process

If you would like to join us as Manufacturing Manager at this critical time in our development and you think your skills and experience are a good fit for this role apply with a current CV and we’ll get back to you within a day or two.

Production Manager, Huddersfield

Who are we?

Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Delivering sustainable agriculture through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.

About this job:

We are now recruiting a Production Manager to work in our Huddersfield Manufacturing Centre.

The purpose of this role is to manage, develop and be accountable for the team of operators across an area in ensuring effective delivery against annual goals, promises and budgets (Production and HSE perspectives).

Medium term planning and development of human and material resources to meet agreed customer promises.

Assist the Area Production Manager by implementing and driving an environment which supports the improvement philosophy through Operational Excellence standards.

To ensure that each employee is empowered to act in a safe and responsible manner and to hold them to account for their actions, and in doing so share clear understanding of the site Major Accident Prevention Policy (MAPP).

About you:

• Experience in the management of plant operations
• Proven technical abilities in the delivery of Process safety
• Experience of leading and developing a team
• Problem solving and diagnostics
• Experienced in Microsoft Office 365 and associated apps.
• Experienced in risk assessment applied to processes and procedures
• Experienced in Lean manufacturing activities and implementations
• Awareness of human factors
• Engineering awareness
• Quality Assurance systems knowledge
• HS&E standards and legal aspects
• Planning and production systems
• Budget formulation and control
• IT awareness and application

If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you!

What we can offer you

• Full time role based in Huddersfield working for a world leading company
• Attractive salary and benefits scheme including health insurance and pension

How and when to apply?

• Apply via our careers page -
• Attach your latest CV (compulsory, and one version must be in English)

Our process includes:

• submission of required application material (CV and motivational letter)
• a zoom interview including technical questioning
• If successful, a plant tour and site visit.

Syngenta is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

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Keeping our hotel running smoothly is vital to our guest's experience – as the Cluster Maintenance Manager you will keep everything looking sharp and running like clockwork. From simple repairs to forward-thinking for the next day. With naturally high standards to support our own, you will approach every task with devotion and pride.  You will ensure the highest quality of product both external and internal with key emphasis on standards, Health & Safety, sustainability and cost control and will also direct and develop your team to support you in these areas.

Your day-to-day

• Repair or replace items around the hotel and refurbish items in guest rooms. By keeping on top of these tasks, you will keep our hotels looking great and working well.
• Organise supplies and make sure equipment is ready for the next day
• Live up to high safety standards – follow guidelines and tell your GM about any incidents, dangerous conditions or unsafe equipment.
• Always keep an eye out for improvements – follow the preventative maintenance calendar and keep everything working and efficient at all times
• Completing statutory health and Safety maintenance checks ensuring compliance paperwork is up to date and in good order
• Liaising with contractors to ensure competitive quotes and available to liaise with them whilst they are on site •             Planning daily and weekly tasks for Maintenance Assistants in both hotels.
• Give support and provide technical guidance to Maintenance Assistants and other hotel staff.
• Supervising and checking work of on-site Maintenance Assistant
• Ensuring that facilities, such as water and heating and lifts, are well-maintained
• Keep your GM or Duty Manager in the loop and tell them about any low running supplies
• To be available for any emergencies and preserve the building and its systems during the emergency. Ensure all guests and colleagues are safe during emergencies
• To plan and implement maintenance projects in both properties
• To support and share best practice with other Maintenance personnel within the group

What we need from you

• What we need from you
• Experience – you’ll have at least five years of maintenance or repair work within a hospitality environment
• Vocational training, preferably plumbing and electrics
• You need to be proficient in Microsoft Office and maintenance reporting systems
• On top of building equipment and hand tools, you’ll have a working knowledge of basic plumbing, electrics and preventative maintenance procedures Fitness – you’ll be on your feet most of the day, and will need to bend and kneel a lot
• Organisation, time management, delegation, prioritising and the ability to handle a complex, varied workload.
• Must speak and write in fluent English.
• It would be expected that you have regular overnight stays in the hotels as we are a 24 hours per day business.

Why you should apply

• Annual bonus for all Team Members
• Fantastic career potential with one of the UK's fastest growing hotel operators
• Employees staff rates across our properties

Heeton Concept Hotel – City Centre Liverpool  boasts an excellent location in the heart of  Liverpool  city centre.Just 1,650 feet from Liverpool ONE Shopping Centre, 15-minute walk from Lime Street Railway Station. Tate Liverpool and The Beatles Story are a 15-minute walk away. 

A convenient central Manchester hotel with excellent transport links is a short walk from Manchester city centre. The M60 and M62 motorways are both close by, and Manchester Airport is only 10 miles away. Nearby Manchester Piccadilly station has direct trains to London.

In line with the requirements of the Asylum & Immigration Act 1996, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process

The Holiday Inn Express® Manchester CC - Oxford Road hotel is a short walk from Manchester city centre. Manchester Airport is only 10 miles away. Nearby Manchester Piccadilly station has direct trains to London. While you’re here, catch Premier League action at Old Trafford or the Etihad Stadium, and shop for bargains at the Manchester Arndale and the Trafford Centre.

• 147 Rooms
• Air-conditioned bedrooms
• Connecting suites for families
• A spacious lobby for informal meetings
• Comfortable bedrooms have flat-screen TVs and blackout curtains to help you sleep.

Job Reference: 352-NMCO-AC431-2020-A

Employer:

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Department:

Operations

Location:

North Manchester General Hospital, North Manchester Care Organisation, Manchester

Salary:

£91,004 - £104,927