Production Manager

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LOCATION: Hingham, Norfolk (NR9) – Office based role
SALARY: Competitive
HOURS: Full time/perm - 38 hrs-Standard shift: Monday-Thursday 8am - 4:30pm, Friday 8am - 2:30pm (finish early). Banked hours for additional hours worked during busy times.

About the role

Applying your expertise, you will help to optimize the performance, efficiency, safety, and cost of our products and processes using Lean methodology, whilst supporting multiple new product development (NPD) Projects, production readiness and the design and implementation of lean manufacturing cells to ensure production viability on launch.

In your role as our Production Manager, you will:

  • Have departmental responsibility of Production, Warehouse & goods receiving/dispatch along with health & safety and will
  • Support development of production capability in collaboration with Operations Director and Manufacturing Engineering.
  • Have full accountability for all production delivery targets and budgets.
  • Drive implementation of lean daily management following TPS model.
  • Identify, lead and implement cost down and efficiency programmes.
  • Collaborate with, and drive, all supporting departments to ensure targets are achieved.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the production team.
  • Recruit and develop production personnel.

About you

To help Mirus continue our journey of growth, you will bring your expertise within a production/manufacturing capacity, a passion for innovation, problem solving and drive for operational excellence along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

  • Experience as an results driven production leader.
  • A familiarisation with the aviation culture, comfortable operating within the demanding requirements of this sector.
  • Be commercially astute, familiar with a serial production in a lean environment and driven to ensure factory targets and KPIs are met whilst ensuring the necessary procedures are rigorously followed.
  • Excellent personable managerial skills who leads from the front and is able to develop the production team to ensure the business is prepared, and able, to deliver both current and future volume requirements.
  • Experience in leading a demanding serial volume production factory
  • Significant experience from within either automotive or aircraft OEM or First Tier supply companies.
  • Demonstrable experience implementing and/or working in a Lean environment and use of lean tools and methodology
  • Engineering biased HNC / HND or equivalent experience
  • Well-developed leadership skills, able to work across all functions to ensure maximum collaboration.
  • Thrive in a challenging environment, be approachable and have a flexible attitude
  • With changing workloads and demands, you must be flexible and able to work hours as required to support the success of their department.

We really want to hear from you, so don’t miss your opportunity to join our community of passionate and exceptional people who challenge the accepted norm! Once you apply, your CV will be held on our central database.  Please do let us know if you do not wish for us to retain your details.  If your application is successful, you will be contacted in due course.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and be a part of a company that values your skills and contributions, we encourage you to apply for our Production Manager position.  Come on a journey with us and be part of shaping the future of production excellence!

Please kindly note, at this moment in time we are respectfully not engaging with any agencies for our roles.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 2015, Mirus Aircraft Seating Ltd has grown rapidly to become a leading aircraft seating OEM, with operations in the UK, Malaysia and China.   We seek excellence at every step, from conception to delivery and beyond.

 

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way, by those who dare to challenge the accepted norm.”

Ben McGuire, Chief Executive Officer

We believe form, function, innovation, sustainability, and the best possible passenger experience are all mutual cornerstones of success when putting pen to paper on a new design and delivering to our airline customers.

Along with our proven record of delivering large and small scale OEM and airline retrofit programs to some of the biggest names in the industry, we are committed to bringing the highest quality seating and unparalleled service to our customers.

OUR BENEFITS

  • Pension – up to 8% contribution (4% Employee/ 4% Employer)
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • An additional day off on or around your birthday
  • Christmas shut down
  • Refer a friend scheme
  • Long Service Award
  • Agile working – flexibility around start and finish times in line with our policy
  • Early finish on a Friday
  • Training and development – Support, coaching and guidance from a team of industry leading renowned specialists
  • Generous Family Friendly Benefits
  • Company Sick Pay Scheme
  • SimplyHealth – helps cover every day healthcare costs such as eye tests and dental check ups, as well as providing mental health support and access to GP services
  • Social events throughout the year
  • Free on-site parking
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At Mirus, we’re committed to creating a welcoming environment for all applicants. If you require any reasonable adjustments during your interview process, please let us know.