Production Manager
Ambitious Production Manager ready to lead in a fast-paced environment? Drive change, elevate performance, and empower teams to deliver operational excellence and customer success.
About Bodycote
At Bodycote, we’re more than the world’s leading provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, we’re a people business at heart. Our commitment to innovation and sustainability guide everything we do. With a global footprint and a culture that values collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement, we’re proud to offer an environment where you can make a real difference.
The Role
As Production Manager, you’ll drive operational excellence across the shopfloor, empowering teams to grow within their roles while delivering against business and customer expectations. You’ll take ownership of day-to-day production activities, ensuring performance, safety, quality, and cost targets are consistently achieved. Taking ownership of production operations, Health & Safety, customer KPIs, and budget performance, you’ll directly impact productivity, service delivery, and overall site performance.
Reporting directly to the General Manager, you will lead daily management routines, embed lean and operational excellence principles, and champion a culture of empowerment and accountability. You must be adaptable and confident in stepping in to cover General Manager responsibilities when required, acting as a transformational change leader during a key period of cultural and operational development.
Who We’re Looking For
Key essentials:
5+ years’ departmental management experience
Proven Production Management experience
Strong supervisory and people management background
Lean / Operational Excellence experience
Experience setting and maintaining production targets against budget
Strong customer awareness and commercial understanding
Transformational, adaptable leader with a proactive mindset
Location & Work Pattern
This role is based in Newport with onsite expectations. Some travel may be required.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to characteristics protected by local law, including (where applicable) gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, and ethnicity. We’re committed to creating a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Department
- Surface Technology (ST)
- Role
- Production Manager
- Locations
- Newport
- Yearly salary
- £55,000 - £57,000
About Bodycote
Our services are a vital part of many manufacturing processes. We make metal stronger, more durable, and more corrosion resistant. Servicing local and international clients from highly accredited facilities our experience and expertise ensures we deliver to the quality and reliability demanded by the markets we serve and the products we deliver.
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