Company: Northwood
Location: Ellesmere Port
Posted: May 10th, 2026
As our Production Manager, you’ll have the privilege of leading high-performing teams, fostering a safety first, quality-driven culture. Your role will be days based where you’ll instill a supportive, high-energy culture across our continental shift, setting high standards, educating and developing our talent.
A key part of the Production Manager role is leading with humility, encouraging your team's innovative input on improvements, recognising their performance, ensuring zero-harm at all times, leading a safety‑first culture.
You’ll promote Continuous Improvement, implementing and utilising lean manufacturing techniques across the site. You’ll also maximise productivity sustainably, minimise waste responsibly, and demonstrate a cost‑conscious approach.
You’ll bring your expertise in maximising productivity and minimising waste ethically and responsibly, with cost consciousness regarding waste control, resourcing, and materials.
It’s crucial our Production Manager guides, supports and promotes our colleagues through training and development, enriching their knowledge, skills, and capability to ensure a fully skilled and motivated team.
You’ll also play an integral role in maintaining audit standards relating to BRCGS, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, and SMETA Sedex.
We are looking for a commercially‑minded and people‑centred leader with resilience, a drive for results, and commitment to empowering colleagues.
A people‑centred Production Manager with a hands‑on approach.
A improvement‑oriented growth mindset, instilling this throughout the team.
Experience in Lean Manufacturing techniques.
Robust experience in delivering significant changes or transformation projects for Production or Manufacturing environments.
Senior Production experience in FMCG, Foods, Paper Converting, Printing, Pharmaceutical, or similar environments.
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