Production Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Production Planning & Scheduling
• Own and maintain the master production schedule across multiple concurrent jobs of varying scope, complexity and duration.
• Sequence production activities to balance delivery deadlines, changeover efficiency, machine capacity and workforce capabilities.
• Maintain accurate capacity visibility and identify over-commitment risks before they affect customer delivery.

Delivery Performance
• Take ownership of on-time delivery, monitoring job progress daily against agreed milestones and initiating corrective action early.
• Escalate at-risk jobs with clear recovery recommendations, including overtime, schedule resequencing, subcontracting or revised delivery dates.
• Work closely with Sales, Procurement and Engineering to ensure customer commitments are realistic and achievable by the production team.

Daily Execution & Decision-Making
• Lead daily production meetings focused on upcoming deadlines, current constraints and required schedule changes.
• Make timely operational decisions as circumstances change, including reallocating labour, resequencing jobs, approving practical workarounds and prioritising competing requirements.
• Resolve bottlenecks, material shortages and technical issues in real time by engaging the appropriate stakeholders before problems escalate.

Resource & Material Management
• Allocate manpower according to changing production re