Total 5 Manager level Manufacturing / Production job vacancies in Cambridge, CB2 1UF

The benefits we offer you will include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)

• Pension contributions up to 9%

• Healthcare cash plan for you and your children

• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work

• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

About the Role

As a Production Team Leader, you will be responsible for a section of the assembly process for a system or vehicle, the Production Team Leader supports the Production Supervisor with the day-to-day management of their allocated area.

Overseeing a number of Production operatives, the Team Leader is key to ensuring the efficient operation of the department and achieving delivery milestones whilst maintaining quality standards and fostering a safe working culture.

As a Production Team Leader you shall provide support to all team members which includes the development of junior members such as apprentices and will also act as a technical competence when assessing and training fellow operatives.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Promoting a safe working environment by ensuring all work is performed in accordance with Workplace Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work and continually working to identify safer ways of working.

• Directly impact the SQCDP metrics (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) and provide escalation for non-adherence if required.

• Ensure efficient start up and end of shift routine which will enable the operation to achieve daily KPI's.

• Monitor working standards, coaching the team to continuously improve the processes and abilities of team members.

• Maintaining local area standards through housekeeping and best practice working.

• Provide support and input into continuous improvement activities within the team and the wider business.

• Supporting other reviews as required by the business as a delegated member of the production management team.

Apply if you have most of the following:

Technical Competencies:

• Substantial experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.

• Competent in Manufacturing and Assembly processes and techniques.

• Competence in reading engineering drawings and associated data.

• Experience in training individuals is desirable

Experience:

• Competent written and verbal skills.

• Proactive leadership style with the ability to use initiative and work independently and as a part of a team.

• Experience of leading a team of production operatives.

• Ability to interact with all members of the team and at all levels within the business.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Supporting and encouraging, able to identify the wellbeing needs of team members but also their areas for development technically and professionally.

• Understand own responsibilities and the responsibilities of the wider team so that there is clear direction and understanding of everyone's goals and objectives each and every day.

• Be a positive influence within the team, celebrating success but more importantly when under pressure from business challenges.

• Keep calm under pressure, recover quickly from setbacks, support team through change

• Have a constructive approach to dealing with conflict. Help team members to speak out; encourage the team to resolve differences and support team members in managing conflict

Education:

• Completed a City and Guilds Apprenticeship or equivalent in Vehicle Body Building, Mechanical Fitting or a Manufacturing and Assembly Qualification.

• IOSH Managing Safely certification is preferable however training could be required

Additional local needs

• This role is required to be based on-site full time

• There may be occasional travel

• There may a need for flexibility to meet the needs of the projects as required

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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• 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.

#LI-Onsite

IND01

#LI-ER1

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.

#LI-Onsite

IND01

#LI-ER1

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.

#LI-Onsite

IND01

#LI-ER1

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.