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Production Operative

Reporting

• Position reports to Production Manager

Tasks

• Receive instruction from the Production Supervisor ( or Production Manager or Deputy Production Manager when appropriate)
• Undertake production tasks as instructed in accordance with relevant job breakdowns, safely and at an appropriate rate.
• Conduct appropriate quality and safety checks as instructed and complete relevant records as required.

Skills

• To receive, understand and act on relevant verbal and written instructions from the Production Supervisor, Deputy Production Manager or Production Manager.
• To work accurately and at an appropriate rate for the task being undertaken.
• To be flexible in acquiring new skills, with appropriate training, to undertake a variety of production tasks to meet operational priorities.
• To co-operate with production colleagues so that multi-task operations are conducted effectively.

Further Details:

• Hourly wage based on experience from £12.00 to £13.00.

• Benefits packages include full training, offer a contributory pension scheme, 23 days annual leave plus bank holiday and on-site free parking.

• Hours of work will be Monday - Friday from 7.00am to 3.30pm

For more information contact Antonino on 01223323133 or via email at

Salary: Circa £28,000 per annum plus excellent benefits

Are you passionate about training and development? Do you have experience in production, especially in Fresh Produce, Food Production, or FMCG Manufacturing? Join our team!

• Competitive Salary: Around £28,000 per year
• Fantastic Benefits
• Shifts: Monday to Friday, noon to 9 pm (flexibility available, willing to discuss alternative i.e 11 am to 8 pm / 1 pm to 10 pm - but needs to cover both day and night shift training requirements)
• No Weekend Work

Join our Training Team at our Peterborough state-of-the-art facility. As a Production Operations Trainer, you'll provide high-quality training, coaching, and mentoring, ensuring compliance and up-to-date training records.

• Onboarding: Support new employees through their first 12 weeks.
• SOP Training: Assist in delivering Standard Operating Procedures and policy training.
• Training Records: Maintain accurate training records.
• Group Training: Lead sessions as needed.
• Consistent Delivery: Ensure training is consistent across all shifts, including occasional nights and weekends.
• Agency Support: Work with agency teams to train staff.
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• Experience: In production or training roles within Fresh Produce, Food Production, or FMCG.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written skills; additional languages are a plus.
• Organisational Skills: Excellent planning and organisation.
• Problem-solving: Strong analytical skills.
• Microsoft Office Proficiency: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.
• Interpersonal Skills: Proven relationship-building skills.
• Team Player: Positive, 'can do' attitude and team-oriented.
• Flexibility: Able to suggest alternative solutions.

• Be part of our expanding operations in the fresh produce industry. Help us grow our exceptional team!

About The Company

Here at AMK Fresh UK, we aim to deliver the freshest and healthiest products to our customers and consumers. Based in Peterborough, AMK Fresh UK continues to grow year after year and can offer a wealth of career and development opportunities at one of the area’s largest employers.

Production Team line Leader – Day Shift -Alconbury, Huntingdon

Pay: up to £13.80 per hour *depending on experience – full-time, permanent, and weekly paid

42 hours paid weekly - guaranteed consistent weekly pay!

· Location: Alconbury, ( commutable from Peterborough, Huntingdon, St Neots, Thrapston, etc)

· Shifts: Day Shift, 4 on 4 off, 07:00 - 19:30

*From £12.45 to £13.80 p/h depending on experience

What you’ll be doing -Production Team Leader – Day Shift, Alconbury, Huntingdon

• You will play a pivotal role in managing, leading, and inspiring Production and Machine Operators to run one of our production lines
• You will also advocate for best working practices by ensuring colleagues follow correct safety procedures and work alongside Quality Control to ensure the freshness of products.
• You will make active decisions in a fast-paced environment, regularly check KPIs, and suggest alternative ways to improve the efficiency of the line.
• You will promote a safe space for colleagues be a valuable team player in contributing to the Acompany culture and motivate your team to excellence.
• You will complete daily reports such as administration, report any breakdowns, and liaise with your Line Manager about any inefficiencies on the line.

About You - Production Team Leader – Day Shift, Alconbury, Huntingdon

Requirements

• Experience within Fresh Produce / Food Production / FMCG environment or similar
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver timely results.
• Demonstrative experience to adapt to environments and make quick decisions, such as responding appropriately to solve problems.
• Continuously strive for excellence, empower, and motivate your team to work collaboratively.
• An awareness of the Production life cycle or willingness to learn.

At AMFRESH, we aim to deliver the freshest and healthiest products to our customers and consumers. Based in Alconbury Weald, AMFRESH continues to grow year on and year and can offer a wealth of career and development opportunities at one of the area's largest employers.

Why join Marshall in this role?

This role will give you the chance to play a key role on ground-breaking and high-profile defence projects with values in the hundreds of millions. You'll be part of an industry-leading team, working with Marshall and other major defence stakeholders and Primes.

As our Detail Fitter, you will be manufacturing sheet metal fabricated components and sub-assemblies to engineering data and in accordance with internal and external OEM quality requirements. These will generally be low quantity production quantities, one off components including prototype manufacture.

Apply if you have experience with most of the following:

• Assembly experience essential, preferably in Aerospace
• Bench work sub-assemblies, working with small to medium sized precision components.
• Assembly of components using specialised fasteners, blind and solid rivets, hi-locks, anchor nuts etc
• Manual drilling, reaming & countersinking using handheld and air powered tools.
• Bonding/sealing using aerospace sealants and adhesives.
• Torque tightened bolts and nuts.
• Electrical Bonding and checks
• Assemble of prototype components in conjunction with the Manufacturing Engineers
• Use of jigs and fixture
• Fabrication of sheet metal components i.e., folding, hand forming, shrinking/stretching would be an advantage but training can be provided.
• Work to Marshall & OEM engineering data and in some instances 3D models
• Working to a schedule of work to meet on-time delivery and to the required quality requirements.
• Comply with all quality and HSE policies and procedures.

About Marshall

Marshall is an independent, family-owned UK company with a diverse portfolio of businesses and a shared commitment to keeping our customers moving forward.

Whether that is supporting global armed forces to deliver mission-critical activities, keeping the UK distribution industry on the road, creating new sustainable communities where people can live and thrive, or developing the next generations of industry talent - we are incredibly proud to have been building extraordinary futures since 1909.

Marshall Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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Do you want an immediate start earning weekly pay? If so, we have a great opportunity for you to get started as a Production Operative in Wisbech, PE13 2RN.

As a Production Operative, you will receive £11.80 per hour to £13.90 per hour.

About:
Our client works with fresh fruit, which are sourced, prepared, packed, delivered and ready to go on supermarket shelves within a very short time period.

Day to day:
As a Production Operative, you will be preparing the fruit using tools provided, packing fruit boxes and dispatching while maintaining standards of health and safety, hygiene and security. You will be working in cool temperatures (+6 - +8). Other duties may be required.

Typical hours as a full time Production Operative:

We have a range of shifts available for you:

5 out of 7 shifts per week PM Shift:
Prep:17:15-1:30 | Decant:17:15-1:30 | Pack: 20:15-04:30 | Despatch: 20:15-04:30

5 out of 7 shifts per week AM Shift:
Prep:6:00-17:15 | Decant:06:00-17:15 | Pack: 8:45-20:15 | Despatch: 8:45-20:15

Some of the benefits you will receive working as a Production Operative:

• Canteen onsite
• Onsite parking available
• Temporary ongoing contract
• Weekly pay - every Friday
• No experience needed, full training provided

We're a Flexible Pay Employer that offers Wagestream. The money management app lets you choose when to get paid, put money aside each month, get discounts on your shopping, check your benefits entitlement, and much more.

Challenge-trg Recruitment has partnered up with the Company Shop, which will enable our staff and colleagues the opportunity to access their membership scheme free of charge. You can gain access to discounted food at up to 70% off the recommended retail price.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) in all our employment practices to all employees, temporary workers, and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender reassignment, married or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Apply now for an immediate start as a Production Operative!

Challenge-trg Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy

Production Quality Operative/ QC's - Alconbury Huntingdon PE27 ( Permanent days or nights contracts)

This is an exciting opportunity for you to join the production operation of a growing business at our new state-of-the-art chilled food facility in Alconbury near Huntingdon, dedicated to packing a range of imported fresh products for leading Supermarkets

Salary range: £12.45 / £15 per hour ( depending on experience and contract) and a fantastic benefits package! (Healthcare plan, 23 days Holiday, Life assurance, Pension, etc)

You will work a 4-days-on, 4-days-off, 12-hour shift system and will be joining a very experienced team within the Quality department.

The Company has a comprehensive skills-based matrix system, so trainees can climb up the payscale the more they learn

The ideal candidate -Quality Team member/QCs - Alconbury, Huntingdon( Permanent Days)

• A passion to learn and grow a career in the production of food quality
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Hard-working
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team
• Good accuracy and attention to detail
• Passion for produce
• Flexible and highly motivated
• Self-motivating and independent
• Good all-round communication skills

For more information and to register your interest, click apply today

With over 90 years committed to delivering quality fresh food at scale, AM FRESH UK, owned by the AM FRESH Group is currently building their own state-of-the-art facility. The site will be operational in 2023 and will showcase a variety of high-tech automation to serve the packing of fresh fruit and vegetables to major retailers. The business has invested heavily in this facility which further demonstrates the growth plans for the Group. AM FRESH employs around 700 people and operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Do you want an immediate start earning weekly pay? If so, we have a great opportunity for you to get started as a Production Operative in Wisbech, PE13 2RN.

As a Production Operative, you will receive £11.80 per hour to £13.90 per hour.

About:
Our client works with fresh fruit, which are sourced, prepared, packed, delivered and ready to go on supermarket shelves within a very short time period.

Day to day:
As a Production Operative, you will be preparing the fruit using tools provided, packing fruit boxes and dispatching while maintaining standards of health and safety, hygiene and security. You will be working in cool temperatures (+6 - +8). Other duties may be required.

Typical hours as a full time Production Operative:

We have a range of shifts available for you:

5 out of 7 shifts per week PM Shift:
Prep:17:15-1:30 | Decant:17:15-1:30 | Pack: 20:15-04:30 | Despatch: 20:15-04:30

5 out of 7 shifts per week AM Shift:
Prep:6:00-17:15 | Decant:06:00-17:15 | Pack: 8:45-20:15 | Despatch: 8:45-20:15

Some of the benefits you will receive working as a Production Operative:

• Canteen onsite
• Onsite parking available
• Temporary ongoing contract
• Weekly pay - every Friday
• No experience needed, full training provided

We're a Flexible Pay Employer that offers Wagestream. The money management app lets you choose when to get paid, put money aside each month, get discounts on your shopping, check your benefits entitlement, and much more.

Challenge-trg Recruitment has partnered up with the Company Shop, which will enable our staff and colleagues the opportunity to access their membership scheme free of charge. You can gain access to discounted food at up to 70% off the recommended retail price.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) in all our employment practices to all employees, temporary workers, and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender reassignment, married or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Apply now for an immediate start as a Production Operative!

Challenge-trg Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy

• Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, private healthcare, car allowance and an extensive flexible benefit programme
• This role is required to be on site in Cambridge on a full-time basis
• There may be occasional travel
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
• Marshall will be moving to Alconbury Weald (PE28) at the end of 2025

What we are looking for

This role of Senior Production Manager is key to ensuring the success of a significant business programme operationally, taking responsibility and ownership of the production plan and area, driving delivery performance, and adherence to budget, with a focus on implementation of improvements.

In addition, managing associated dependencies and line management of a project specific team across multiple functions.

Supporting the Programme Director the successful Senior Production Manager will work collaboratively alongside the other functional managers to meet delivery objectives, manage performance, and ensure quality standards are maintained whilst fostering a safe working culture.

Responsibilities will include:

• Full accountability for the significant production programme and area for all SQCDP metrics and the high level configuration and conformance of delivered product.
• Managing and leading a team of supervisors and/or team leaders to manufacture, assemble and build specialist products, on time, at the right quality and cost.

• Ensuring that all resources are working at the right levels of responsibility, and provide additional training as part of the PDR process as required.
• Proactively promoting a health & safety culture that is aligned with the MLS health & safety management system.
• Creating a continuous improvement environment within the workplace to drive and improve efficiencies in line with business cost reduction initiatives.
• Taking ownership of local policies and procedures and ensuring they are adhered to
• Actively engaging the team to create a positive mindset that will deliver all milestones and KPIs, and where necessary proactively provide recovery plans with route cause analysis and problem solving from lessons learned.
• Creating an autonomous team that provide a can-do attitude working legally, morally and ethically.

Tasks:

• Supporting SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) level 2 meetings and escalate issues to level 1 as appropriate.
• Monitoring and managing performance to budget (product/programme/overhead) and schedule; ensuring any issues and dependencies are managed and escalated where appropriate via the appropriate mechanisms.
• Supporting the programme team by forecasting Estimates to Completion and cost and schedule impact of engineering change in accordance with internal change management process.
• Supporting the programme team in defining and presenting Operations status updates in project meetings and contract status reviews.
• Ensuring coherent and consistent communications both up to the Programme Director, Head of Operations, and the executive team, and to the workforce via your team of production supervisors and team leaders.
• Supporting the Project Manager in understanding, quantifying, and managing risk to the project and/or program via internal risk reviews.
• Preparing for and supporting applicable gate reviews in accordance with Marshall's Life Cycle Management process (e.g., Production Readiness Reviews).
• Leading a cross- functional mobilisation team in preparation for new product introduction.
• Ensuring that manning levels and skill requirements are aligned to the production plan, and consider future capacity requirements through the SOP (sales and operation planning process).
• Submitting yearly budgets in line with production requirements and CAPEX/control and forecasting.
• Supporting the bid team from a production perspective to enable the bid process to progress efficiently.
• Ensuring regular performance reviews are undertaken with all supervisors; role model and ensure supervisors recognise strong operational performance and act on under-performance without hesitation.
• Succession planning to develop team members into future roles within the business.

• Attending senior leadership meetings, representing the production programme and as directed in line with business requirements.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

Experience:

• Substantial experience in manufacturing and assembly processes and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience managing a diverse team of individuals in multiple trades.
• Proven ability to be able to lead a team through a period of strategic change, and ability to create winning teams.
• Desirable experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.
• Desirable understanding and ability to read engineering drawings and associated design data.
• The ability to interact with all members of the team and possible customer interface.
• Consistent proven application to related tasks with a strong positive attitude.
• Proficiency with MS suite, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and MRP.
• Understanding of policies and procedures required to manage a team within a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5s techniques.
• Health and Safety, Fire and Environmental Policies.

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.

• Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, private healthcare, car allowance and an extensive flexible benefit programme
• This role is required to be on site in Cambridge on a full-time basis
• There may be occasional travel
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
• Marshall Land Systems will be moving to Alconbury Weald (PE28) at the end of 2025

What we are looking for

This role of Senior Production Manager is key to ensuring the success of a significant business programme operationally, taking responsibility and ownership of the production plan and area, driving delivery performance, and adherence to budget, with a focus on implementation of improvements.

In addition, managing associated dependencies and line management of a project specific team across multiple functions.

Supporting the Marshall Land Systems Programme Director the successful Senior Production Manager will work collaboratively alongside the other functional managers to meet delivery objectives, manage performance, and ensure quality standards are maintained whilst fostering a safe working culture.

Responsibilities will include:

• Full accountability for the significant production programme and area for all SQCDP metrics and the high level configuration and conformance of delivered product.
• Managing and leading a team of supervisors and/or team leaders to manufacture, assemble and build Land Systems specialist products, on time, at the right quality and cost.

• Ensuring that all resources are working at the right levels of responsibility, and provide additional training as part of the PDR process as required.
• Proactively promoting a health & safety culture that is aligned with the MLS health & safety management system.
• Creating a continuous improvement environment within the workplace to drive and improve efficiencies in line with business cost reduction initiatives.
• Taking ownership of local policies and procedures and ensuring they are adhered to
• Actively engaging the team to create a positive mindset that will deliver all milestones and KPIs, and where necessary proactively provide recovery plans with route cause analysis and problem solving from lessons learned.
• Creating an autonomous team that provide a can-do attitude working legally, morally and ethically.

Tasks:

• Supporting SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) level 2 meetings and escalate issues to level 1 as appropriate.
• Monitoring and managing performance to budget (product/programme/overhead) and schedule; ensuring any issues and dependencies are managed and escalated where appropriate via the appropriate mechanisms.
• Supporting the programme team by forecasting Estimates to Completion and cost and schedule impact of engineering change in accordance with internal change management process.
• Supporting the programme team in defining and presenting Operations status updates in project meetings and contract status reviews.
• Ensuring coherent and consistent communications both up to the Programme Director, Head of Operations, and the executive team, and to the workforce via your team of production supervisors and team leaders.
• Supporting the Project Manager in understanding, quantifying, and managing risk to the project and/or program via internal risk reviews.
• Preparing for and supporting applicable gate reviews in accordance with Marshall's Life Cycle Management process (e.g., Production Readiness Reviews).
• Leading a cross- functional mobilisation team in preparation for new product introduction.
• Ensuring that manning levels and skill requirements are aligned to the production plan, and consider future capacity requirements through the SOP (sales and operation planning process).
• Submitting yearly budgets in line with production requirements and CAPEX/control and forecasting.
• Supporting the bid team from a production perspective to enable the bid process to progress efficiently.
• Ensuring regular performance reviews are undertaken with all supervisors; role model and ensure supervisors recognise strong operational performance and act on under-performance without hesitation.
• Succession planning to develop team members into future roles within the business.

• Attending senior leadership meetings, representing the production programme and as directed in line with business requirements.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

Experience:

• Substantial experience in manufacturing and assembly processes and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience managing a diverse team of individuals in multiple trades.
• Proven ability to be able to lead a team through a period of strategic change, and ability to create winning teams.
• Desirable experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.
• Desirable understanding and ability to read engineering drawings and associated design data.
• The ability to interact with all members of the team and possible customer interface.
• Consistent proven application to related tasks with a strong positive attitude.
• Proficiency with MS suite, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and MRP.
• Understanding of policies and procedures required to manage a team within a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5s techniques.
• Health and Safety, Fire and Environmental Policies.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• IOSH Managing safely certification preferable.
• Preferable to have Leadership qualification, CMI, LM.

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall Land Systems specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.

Production Team Leader – Day Shift -Alconbury, Huntingdon

Pay: up to £13.80 per hour *depending on experience – full-time, permanent, and weekly paid

42 hours paid weekly - guaranteed consistent weekly pay!

· Location: Alconbury, ( commutable from Peterborough, Huntingdon, St Neots, Thrapston, etc)

· Shifts: Day Shift, 4 on 4 off, 07:00 - 19:30

*From £12.45 to £13.80 p/h depending on experience

What you’ll be doing -Production Team Leader – Day Shift, Alconbury, Huntingdon

• You will play a pivotal role in managing, leading, and inspiring Production and Machine Operators to run one of our production lines
• You will also advocate for best working practices by ensuring colleagues follow correct safety procedures and work alongside Quality Control to ensure the freshness of products.
• You will make active decisions in a fast-paced environment, regularly check KPIs, and suggest alternative ways to improve the efficiency of the line.
• You will promote a safe space for colleagues be a valuable team player in contributing to the Acompany culture and motivate your team to excellence.
• You will complete daily reports such as administration, report any breakdowns, and liaise with your Line Manager about any inefficiencies on the line.

About You - Production Team Leader – Day Shift, Alconbury, Huntingdon

Requirements

• Experience within Fresh Produce / Food Production / FMCG environment or similar
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver timely results.
• Demonstrative experience to adapt to environments and make quick decisions, such as responding appropriately to solve problems.
• Continuously strive for excellence, empower, and motivate your team to work collaboratively.
• An awareness of the Production life cycle or willingness to learn.

Job Description

General Summary:

The Supervisor, Manufacturing Operations leads shift work in the cell therapy clinical manufacturing facility, assigning work according to detailed schedules and plans. Responsible for daily cGMP operations in the Vertex Drug Product Facility, including the set-up, assembly, operation, disassembly, and cleaning of process equipment, and overseeing the daily work of shift personnel.

Responsible for daily operations and staff allocations for first shift personnel.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Interface with relevant cross functional groups necessary for the operation and maintenance of the facility and manufacturing of drug product.

• Execute and witness batch record instructions during cGMP operations.

• Maintain facility in an audit ready state.

• Supervise manufacturing personnel

• Monitor GMP compliance in all cGMP activities with co-workers and anyone working within the Drug Product facility.

• Maintain compliance with all on-going training requirements.

• Follow SOPs, policies and all other relevant work instructions to ensure the successful and compliance operation of the drug product facility.

Knowledge and Skills:

• A solid understanding of the cGMP framework in the context of both development and commercial pharmaceutical drug product manufacturing environment.

• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions in English.

• Visual Acuity.

• Ability to distinguish between the colors red, yellow, blue and green.

• Ability to lift up to 50lbs.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Strong communication skills, as well as excellent documentation skills.

• Basic computer skills and demonstrated ability to learn new systems and understand new technologies.

• Occasional availability to work on other shifts may be necessary for onboarding and training.

Experience:

• Typically requires 3 years of relevant work experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience

• Supervisory experience

• Experience with manufacturing systems utilizing computerized control systems and HMIs

• Experience with continuous manufacturing and with manufacturing processes relevant to cell and gene therapy

Company Information

• Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, private healthcare, car allowance and an extensive flexible benefit programme
• This role is required to be on site in Cambridge on a full-time basis
• There may be occasional travel
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
• Marshall Land Systems will be moving to Alconbury Weald (PE28) at the end of 2025

What we are looking for

This role of Senior Production Manager is key to ensuring the success of a significant business programme operationally, taking responsibility and ownership of the production plan and area, driving delivery performance, and adherence to budget, with a focus on implementation of improvements.

In addition, managing associated dependencies and line management of a project specific team across multiple functions.

Supporting the Marshall Land Systems Programme Director the successful Senior Production Manager will work collaboratively alongside the other functional managers to meet delivery objectives, manage performance, and ensure quality standards are maintained whilst fostering a safe working culture.

Responsibilities will include:

• Full accountability for the significant production programme and area for all SQCDP metrics and the high level configuration and conformance of delivered product.
• Managing and leading a team of supervisors and/or team leaders to manufacture, assemble and build Land Systems specialist products, on time, at the right quality and cost.

• Ensuring that all resources are working at the right levels of responsibility, and provide additional training as part of the PDR process as required.
• Proactively promoting a health & safety culture that is aligned with the MLS health & safety management system.
• Creating a continuous improvement environment within the workplace to drive and improve efficiencies in line with business cost reduction initiatives.
• Taking ownership of local policies and procedures and ensuring they are adhered to
• Actively engaging the team to create a positive mindset that will deliver all milestones and KPIs, and where necessary proactively provide recovery plans with route cause analysis and problem solving from lessons learned.
• Creating an autonomous team that provide a can-do attitude working legally, morally and ethically.

Tasks:

• Supporting SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) level 2 meetings and escalate issues to level 1 as appropriate.
• Monitoring and managing performance to budget (product/programme/overhead) and schedule; ensuring any issues and dependencies are managed and escalated where appropriate via the appropriate mechanisms.
• Supporting the programme team by forecasting Estimates to Completion and cost and schedule impact of engineering change in accordance with internal change management process.
• Supporting the programme team in defining and presenting Operations status updates in project meetings and contract status reviews.
• Ensuring coherent and consistent communications both up to the Programme Director, Head of Operations, and the executive team, and to the workforce via your team of production supervisors and team leaders.
• Supporting the Project Manager in understanding, quantifying, and managing risk to the project and/or program via internal risk reviews.
• Preparing for and supporting applicable gate reviews in accordance with Marshall's Life Cycle Management process (e.g., Production Readiness Reviews).
• Leading a cross- functional mobilisation team in preparation for new product introduction.
• Ensuring that manning levels and skill requirements are aligned to the production plan, and consider future capacity requirements through the SOP (sales and operation planning process).
• Submitting yearly budgets in line with production requirements and CAPEX/control and forecasting.
• Supporting the bid team from a production perspective to enable the bid process to progress efficiently.
• Ensuring regular performance reviews are undertaken with all supervisors; role model and ensure supervisors recognise strong operational performance and act on under-performance without hesitation.
• Succession planning to develop team members into future roles within the business.

• Attending senior leadership meetings, representing the production programme and as directed in line with business requirements.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

Experience:

• Substantial experience in manufacturing and assembly processes and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience managing a diverse team of individuals in multiple trades.
• Proven ability to be able to lead a team through a period of strategic change, and ability to create winning teams.
• Desirable experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.
• Desirable understanding and ability to read engineering drawings and associated design data.
• The ability to interact with all members of the team and possible customer interface.
• Consistent proven application to related tasks with a strong positive attitude.
• Proficiency with MS suite, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and MRP.
• Understanding of policies and procedures required to manage a team within a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5s techniques.
• Health and Safety, Fire and Environmental Policies.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• IOSH Managing safely certification preferable.
• Preferable to have Leadership qualification, CMI, LM.

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall Land Systems specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.