Manufacturing Manager

About the Role

Are you ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced manufacturing environment?

As a Manufacturing Manager , you’ll play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence, optimising production processes, and developing a high-performing team with a focus on continuous improvement; this role offers the chance to influence key business outcomes.

Passionate about leadership, focused on building high-performing teams, and equally comfortable being hands-on or thinking and influencing strategically, you will have direct responsibility for Production, Continuous Improvement and Operations Training teams.

You will create a supportive and engaging environment that sets the standards and drives performance to achieve targets across our 24 / 7, 4-shift operations.

Job Opportunity

Key responsibilities include :

• Ensuring health and safety standards are adhered to, actively promoting a safety culture of zero harm by choice
• Development and performance management of direct reports to create high-performing teams delivering the Production team goals and targets
• Collaborating with other departments to maximise productivity and efficiency whilst ensuring quality standards are maintained and working to guarantee that efficiency, quality and safety objectives connected to productivity and engineering activities are achieved
• Working closely with the Engineering Manager to effectively schedule planned maintenance activities
• Supporting the development of the Site’s CI Strategy and framework, promoting a culture of continuous improvement, utilising lean manufacturing tools and techniques, and ensuring these are adopted and embedded across the site
• Managing cost controls, including waste control, labour costs, material usage
• Taking a leading role in supporting the site to effectively maintain audit standards relating to BRCGS, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and SMETA Sedex

Essential Skills

To be successful in this Manufacturing Manager role, you will ideally have :

If you have previously held roles as a Manufacturing Manager, Production Manager, CI Manager, or Operations Manager, we want to hear from you!

Recruitment Process

Should you be shortlisted, you will receive an email from TalentCentral SHL, which will include a request to complete our candidate assessment to ensure that we can accurately evaluate your competencies and skills.

If you require any adjustments necessary to complete the online assessment, please get in touch.

About Company

Northwood is a family-owned group of associated companies that provide the manufacturing, supply and transportation of paper hygiene and wiping products for both the away-from-home and consumer market.

Our mission is to be the market-leading partner of choice in the away from home tissue industry. One of only a small handful of companies in the UK market that is fully vertically integrated; Northwood is involved at each point in the supply chain, from raw material supply, tissue and towel manufacturing, end-user product converting, storage and transportation.

Our remit is huge, with a portfolio of products covering two key systems brands, professional wiping, commodity, consumer paper and private label. We sell into a distribution network spanning the UK, Ireland and Europe, which in turn service markets such as healthcare, hospitality, hotels, engineering, janitorial, catering and education.

We are a highly successful, award-winning and ambitious business that has grown from a humble paper sales business to a market leader employing over 800 colleagues, across 11 sites in the UK and Spain.

We differentiate ourselves by excelling in product quality alongside market-leading service and sales support.

DE&I

At Northwood, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone is welcomed and respected. We strive to promote a workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages individuals to express their opinions and beliefs. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all.

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