Production Manager

Company: April Quest
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

An established world leader with a comprehensive range of safety systems ensuring the safety of both people and equipment operating in harsh and safety critical environments.

Responsibilities

  • Manage production on this cutting edge assembly facility with a focus on safety, quality, inventory, delivery and production; aim to ship approximately 800 products per month.
  • Lead teams to hit targets and ensure timely output.
  • Take ownership of the team, enabling high levels of engagement and challenging the team where necessary.
  • Mentor and develop staff with independent decision making as needed.

Essential Requirements

  • Degree or time-served or vocational engineering / manufacturing qualification.
  • Excellent people management skills to mentor / develop the team — able to motivate, assertive, team development with good independent decision making skills.
  • Experience in a manufacturing / production environment with targets and KPIs to hit.
  • Exposed to lean techniques, 5S in the cells, Gemba walks, follow lean principles.

Desirable Requirements

  • Experienced in an electro-mechanical assembly environment.

Benefits

  • Pension (enhanced employer contribution up to 10.5%)
  • Company share scheme
  • Production bonus scheme
  • Management bonus scheme at 5%
  • Holiday allowance – 25 days + bank holidays
  • Working hours – 37 hours per week with flex start / finish times – mostly office based (occasional Friday WFH option)
  • Maternity / Paternity allowance (14 weeks fully paid parental leave)

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Posted: May 4th, 2026