Production Manager

A flexible team player responsible for coordinating, communicating, and managing day-to-day production activities to ensure efficient operations and compliance.

• Plan, schedule, monitor, and ensure on-time delivery of customer orders in coordination with Planning.
• Liaise with Logistics and Purchasing to ensure material availability.
• Produce weekly and monthly operational reports for the Operations Manager.
• Ensure all manufacturing activities comply with cGMP, SOPs, Health & Safety, and training requirements.
• Maintain compliance with validation standards and requirements.
• Lead investigations and ensure timely closure of PIRs and deviations.
• Support QA/QP in audit preparation and management.
• Review, approve, and maintain manufacturing and maintenance SOPs.
• Create, review, and approve Master Batch documentation.
• Set daily production targets and manage performance against KPIs.
• Analyse production metrics and lead root cause/corrective actions for missed targets.
• Maintain compliant and safe production areas.
• Drive team performance and motivation to achieve output targets.
• Optimise resources, including headcount planning with Operations Manager.
• Monitor and reduce waste across production.
• Manage yield, efficiency, cycle time, and throughput with shift supervisors.
• Approve overtime in coordination with Operations Manager.
• Ensure timely completion of staff appraisals and training reviews.
• Support recruitment and workforce planning.
• Ensure budgets are followed and expenditure is justified.
• Coordinate with maintenance to ensure equipment reliability.
• Support validation activities including IQ/OQ documentation.
• Ensure smooth cross-departmental communication to meet production schedules.
• Review TMS requirements weekly.

• Strong leadership and team management capability.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organisation and time management ability. xcfaprz
• High attention to detail in a fast‑paced environment.