Production Manager

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General & Operations Management · Newport · Onsite

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.

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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 regardless of characteristics protected by local law, including (where applicable) gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, and ethnic origin. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Department General & Operations Management Role Production Manager Location Newport Employment type Full-time

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.

Founded in 1923

Co-workers 4,750

Turnover $750M

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General & Operations Management · Newport · Onsite

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.

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