Production Manager

Job Title: Production Manager - Cwmbran

Knauf stands for opportunity. We know that opportunity looks different to each person, and we are proud that we see opportunity in everyone. This exciting role within Knauf Insulation in the Production Team could be the perfect next opportunity for you to build a unique career, in a values-led culture with a clear purpose of making tomorrow a home for all of us. We are a global manufacturer of construction materials and within our Group, our 41,500 team members in 90 countries across 300 sites provide a huge opportunity for anyone with ambition and energy. We value everyone's contribution equally and we ask that you bring your whole self to work, to enrich the business further, as together we achieve more in a safe and inclusive environment.

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Can you say ‘yes’?...

• Do you enjoy playing a leading role in a Manufacturing environment?

• Do you lead with visibility?

• Do you act with safety in mind at all times?

As our Production Manager, you will Provide Visible leadership to the production team, setting clear standards and expectations to ensure achievement of stated goals and objectives and manufacturing KPI’s. You will drive a culture of safety and customer centricity, holding the team accountable to any deviation whilst empowering the Shift and Process Leaders and ensure clear development and succession pathways for the wider team.

What you’ll be doing…

• Ensure safety first at all times and have influence in all interactions to maintain a safety focus

• Respect the Knauf values: Commitment, Entrepreneurship, Partnership and Menschlichkeit and apply them in your daily work

• Champion a CI culture and support the teams with knowledge of CI tools, techniques and standard ways of working

• Provide an empowering leadership style to the Shift Team Leaders and Process Leaders to define clear standards and deliver high performance

• Ensure a clear and robust training and development program is maintained to provide succession pathways and high skill provision.

• Align the production team behind the stated Mission and Vision and all business objectives as defined.

• Establish close partnership between Process, Engineering and Production to ensure the daily management process allows the team to achieve excellence 24/7.

• Provide functional representation in on-site meetings including Trade Union collaboration. Represent the plant as required in off site network meetings

• Manage performance or compliance concerns with strength and consistency involving the People team as required.

• Provide leadership and guidance to the wider plant team, supporting where necessary

• Identify process optimisation/improvement opportunities and input into the CI Idea process or within the business objectives

• Support the utilisation within the team of a clear structured approach to problem solving, using the appropriate tool for the scenario (KATA, 5 Why, 8D, DMAIC etc)

A full role profile is available upon request from HR/Talent Acquisition.

What we’d love for you to have:

We are interested in you as a person, your attitude, behaviours and values. If you have the willingness to learn anything you need for the role that you don't already have, we'd love to speak to you.

If you have any of the following – this would be an added advantage:

• Clear drive for improvement, proactive and appetite to learn new skills.

• Strong and demonstrated KI Values

• Leadership and communication style which is motivating and engaging to individuals and teams.

• Minimum 4 years of production leadership experience in a continuous manufacturing environment

• Degree educated in a relevant discipline

• Strong understanding of fundamental CI principles, tools and techniques (LEAN, SIX SIGMA)

• Ability to challenge the status quo and not accept opinion as fact

• Good communication and influencing skills

• Knowledge of SAP – desirable

We'll provide:

• Enhanced Holiday Pay – 33 days including bank holidays plus the opportunity to purchase more

• 16 weeks Company Sick Pay after 3 months of service

• Group Income Protection

• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption packages

• Life Assurance – 4 x annual salary

• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

• Staff Bonus Scheme

• Career Progression Routes

• Employee Assistance Programme through Health Assured

• Unum Health Cash Plan

• Perkbox

• Access to Costco Membership

• Wickes Employee Purchase Scheme

• On site Gyms

• Wellbeing Initiatives and Mental Health First Aiders

• Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

• Cycle to work scheme

• On site Car Charging Points

What happens next?

We appreciate that your time is precious and applying for a new job can be a lengthy process, so we will reply to your application ASAP.

Knauf Insulation welcomes applications from everyone and is committed to treating everyone equally, regardless of: age; sex; disability; ethnicity; gender identity; religion/belief; sexual orientation; marriage/civil partnership or pregnancy/maternity. In particular, we encourage applications from people from a minority background or from demographics that are underrepresented in the manufacturing industry.

We are a Disability Confident Leader (Level 1) and take care to ensure good EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) practices in all our operations. If you are invited to an interview, a member of our team will be in touch via email to enquire about any access requirements or reasonable adjustments that we can make for your interview.