Job Title: Manufacturing Manager - Electronic products
Location: Leicester, Leicestershire
Salary: £70,000 to £80,000 basic + Great benefits package
Are you looking for a Manufacturing Manager – Electronic products role in the Leicester / East Midlands area?
If so, a very good client of mine has got a brand-new role as Manufacturing Manager – Electronic products to join their team.
My client designs and manufactures complex high-value electronic instruments and electromechanical machinery that are used all over the world.
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for a Manufacturing Manager - Electronic products to manage the day-to-day activities of the Manufacturing Engineering Team ensuring NPI programs are delivered to plan, driving operational excellence, reducing costs, and providing production support to meet business targets.
MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manufacturing Manager – Electronic products, will include:
- Drive continuous improvement throughout all aspect of operation and evolve the standards for a CI culture.
- Work closely with all stakeholders to improve and enhance quality ensuring sustainable root cause analysis across the business.
- Support New Product Introduction projects to ensure all new products are delivered on time to deadlines and sustainably to support long-term efficiency and future product developments.
- Lead new process innovation projects to ensure manufacturing and production processes stay “ahead of the curve” and increase automation opportunities.
- Within the team, run VAVE, Kaizen, and OPEX projects to drive down costs, improve production processes, right first-time quality, and product lead times.
- Work closely and support all production areas to maximise efficiency in delivering the production plan.
- Drive team culture to set the standard of operational excellence and capability within the business.
Required Skills/Experience for the Manufacturing Manager – Electronic products.
- Relevant management experience
- Strong interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with other functional areas.
- End-to-end knowledge of production processes.
- Experience in driving Operational Excellence
- Experience in driving new products into production to tight deadlines.
- Ability to liaise with technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior management.
- Significant experience working in an organisation that has successfully used one or more continuous improvement methodologies (lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, etc.)
- Experience in Engineering change workflows through to fruition.
This is a fantastic chance to join a global, multi-billion-pound engineering company offering excellent career development opportunities and a great benefits package including 28 days holiday + bank holidays and 1pm Friday finish.
If you have any specific questions about this Manufacturing Manager – Electronic products, please contact David on 01582 350052. To apply email; dphilpott@versorecruitment.com