Total 10 manufacturing production job vacancies in cambridge anglia cb4 2ph

The benefits we offer you will include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)

• Pension contributions up to 9%

• Healthcare cash plan for you and your children

• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work

• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

About the Role

As a Production Team Leader, you will be responsible for a section of the assembly process for a system or vehicle, the Production Team Leader supports the Production Supervisor with the day-to-day management of their allocated area.

Overseeing a number of Production operatives, the Team Leader is key to ensuring the efficient operation of the department and achieving delivery milestones whilst maintaining quality standards and fostering a safe working culture.

As a Production Team Leader you shall provide support to all team members which includes the development of junior members such as apprentices and will also act as a technical competence when assessing and training fellow operatives.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Promoting a safe working environment by ensuring all work is performed in accordance with Workplace Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work and continually working to identify safer ways of working.

• Directly impact the SQCDP metrics (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) and provide escalation for non-adherence if required.

• Ensure efficient start up and end of shift routine which will enable the operation to achieve daily KPI's.

• Monitor working standards, coaching the team to continuously improve the processes and abilities of team members.

• Maintaining local area standards through housekeeping and best practice working.

• Provide support and input into continuous improvement activities within the team and the wider business.

• Supporting other reviews as required by the business as a delegated member of the production management team.

Apply if you have most of the following:

Technical Competencies:

• Substantial experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.

• Competent in Manufacturing and Assembly processes and techniques.

• Competence in reading engineering drawings and associated data.

• Experience in training individuals is desirable

Experience:

• Competent written and verbal skills.

• Proactive leadership style with the ability to use initiative and work independently and as a part of a team.

• Experience of leading a team of production operatives.

• Ability to interact with all members of the team and at all levels within the business.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Supporting and encouraging, able to identify the wellbeing needs of team members but also their areas for development technically and professionally.

• Understand own responsibilities and the responsibilities of the wider team so that there is clear direction and understanding of everyone's goals and objectives each and every day.

• Be a positive influence within the team, celebrating success but more importantly when under pressure from business challenges.

• Keep calm under pressure, recover quickly from setbacks, support team through change

• Have a constructive approach to dealing with conflict. Help team members to speak out; encourage the team to resolve differences and support team members in managing conflict

Education:

• Completed a City and Guilds Apprenticeship or equivalent in Vehicle Body Building, Mechanical Fitting or a Manufacturing and Assembly Qualification.

• IOSH Managing Safely certification is preferable however training could be required

Additional local needs

• This role is required to be based on-site full time

• There may be occasional travel

• There may a need for flexibility to meet the needs of the projects as required

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall Land Systems specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it

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1. OUR MISSION:
Promoting a future that is nature-inspired. We are an award-winning sustainable material science company dedicated to developing innovative materials that are environmentally friendly and socially responsible. Sparxell’s products are sustainably designed to overcome the challenges associated with synthetic and unethically-sourced pigments.
Redesigning how colours are made. Sparxell’s pioneering pigments are made with cellulose extracted from plants nanostructured in a wide range of vibrant shades. Sparxell’s patented technology arises from multiple years of interdisciplinary research performed at the University of Cambridge. Sparxell’s ambition is to foster sustainability in advanced materials, with a targeted impact on multiple sectors that heavily rely on colouring matter, from cosmetics to fashion, packaging, paint and food.

2. WHAT WE LOOK FOR:
Working closely with our R&D and Production team, you will support laboratory experiments, scale-up Sparxell’s current technology, and contribute to developing its future technological edge.
Your main tasks will involve:
- Contributing to deliver the company’s research and production strategy.
- Operating pilot production processes, which includes state-of-the-art reactors, heating/cooling systems, mechanical processing equipment, and drying units.
- Conducting experiments and sample preparation using various techniques, which may be repetitive, to deliver minimum viable products.
- Supporting the optimisation of processes from lab bench to scale-up and production.
- Maintaining laboratory equipment and supplies to ensure their proper functioning.
- Supporting troubleshooting equipment and methodological issues.
- Contributing to setting up and managing protocols.
- Ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
- Collaborating with internal teams and external partners, including customers, academic institutions, and government agencies.

3. YOUR PROFILE & QUALIFICATIONS:
We are seeking a highly skilled person capable of careful and independent work, familiar with standard laboratory techniques and keen on learning.
You earned at least a B.A. or equivalent with relevant academic and/or industrial experience. Profiles without degrees having outstanding professional experience are also welcome.
Ideally you have prior experience in one or more of the following industries:
- Process engineering and manufacturing processes.
- Formulation, colourant, fine chemicals, photonics and materials processing.
- Plant-based or bio-based polymer, lignocellulosic bio-refinery, pre-treatment and extraction.
- Cellulose material preparation, such as prior experience with suspension, film and coating.
You are proficient in various laboratory techniques and equipment, which you may optimise independently.
You are keen to engage in a fast-paced and exciting working environment in which you will play a decisive role in the company’s future success.
You are a team player who communicates with passion and accuracy on each project you are part of. Your command of English is good, and you may be fluent in another language.

4. BENEFITS & CONDITIONS:
Deadline for application: 30th of September 2024.
Contract: Full-time permanent contract with career advancement and opportunities.
Starting: When available, ideally by the 14th of October 2024.
Location: Cambridge, UK, with flexible working arrangements.
Estimated remuneration: £ 30k with early employee benefits.
Right to work in the UK: We have a legal responsibility to ensure that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start working with us. Therefore, if you still need to get the right to work in the UK, any offer of employment will be conditional upon you gaining this right.
References: Offers of appointment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references.

5. FEELING LIKE JOINING OUR TEAM?
If you want to join our endeavours, please send your CV and a cover letter to careers@sparxell.com. Please name your documents as JobID_Forename Surname_CV or CL for faster internal processing. With these two mandatory documents, feel free to add any miscellaneous material supporting your application.
Colour speaks to all, and so does Sparxell. Our company is committed to building a diverse team and an inclusive environment where all employees belong. We encourage women, people of colour, of all ages, individuals with disabilities, gender-expansive individuals and LGBTQ+ candidates, and other under-represented minorities to apply to this position.
We will aim to review your application within a week and get back to you within a reasonable time with a final decision on your application.

• Competitive salary and remuneration package including, 27 days holiday, pension contributions matched up to 9%
• Cambridge onsite based role.
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909

Why join Marshall in this role?

The main purpose of the role, together with a small team, is to create and implement a best practice capacity planning vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures in line with ERP/MRP systems to aid and improve operational performance.

Your responsibilities will include:

Managing the day to day activities on the ERP / MRP system (IFS) supporting the production planning process and operations. Responsible for initial loading of projects after design release, setting up the Master Part information, making amendments and supporting spares. To release projects to planning, purchasing and the shop floor in a timely manner. To roll-up all project costs at the end of the project, ensuring all parts are issued to the project.

• Working closely with the Production scheduler you will be responsible for the capacity planning, developing these services in the organisation, ensuring efficiency and utilisation of available plant hours is incorporated in planned maintenance cycles
• Responsible for material demand planning and stock control, loading projects and product support demand on the MRP system to customer requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring that capacity planning is fully integrated within the ERP/MRP systems, ensuring delivery against operational requirements and which optimise manufacturing efficiency and costs
• Managing the control of Data within IFS, identifying trends, actioning MRP Messages to ensure the system is up to date and accurate and handling any stock related queries from all personnel.
• Refine systems, methods and process to continually improve plans allowing the organisation to better anticipate customer needs, maximising planning input into bids.
• Timely closure of projects ensuring all parts are issued to the project, allowing rolled up costs to be visible to project managers and finance.
• Manage deviations from the plan that have financial impact
• Master Part set up, transferring parts from the Design software (PLM Windchill) to IFS, ensuring all key fields are accurate
• Ensure all shop orders are linked to the appropriate parent order to allow true costs to be shown to the project and for future work
• Ensure all amendments are processed through the MRP system in a timely manner ensuring parts are at latest issue and that parts are issued to the job
• A leading role all MRP training to all personnel to ensure they are able to use system appropriately
• Stationary ordering for Land Systems operations department

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Extensive experience within a factory planning role, preferably within a composites manufacturing or aerospace/ defence environment
• Very experienced in the use of ERP / MRP systems
• Competent I.T. skills i.e. Word, Excel and MRP. Previous experience with IFS desirable.
• Good written and verbal skills.
• Ability to interact with a range of stakeholders.
• Understand planning methods and skills.
• Understanding of assembly systems.
• Basic Understanding of Inventory management
• Understanding of project based systems
• Confident individual with the ability to create and foster close working relationships
• To be self-motivated with the ability to produce accurate work and meet tight deadlines
• Technical skills - Ability to navigate MRP software, IFS desirable

The benefits we will offer you include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
• Pension contributions up to 9%
• Medical cash plan
• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Paid volunteering leave
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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Why join Marshall in this role?

This role will give you the chance to play a key role on ground-breaking and high-profile defence projects with values in the hundreds of millions. You'll be part of an industry-leading team, working with Marshall and other major defence stakeholders and Primes.

As our Detail Fitter, you will be manufacturing sheet metal fabricated components and sub-assemblies to engineering data and in accordance with internal and external OEM quality requirements. These will generally be low quantity production quantities, one off components including prototype manufacture.

Apply if you have experience with most of the following:

• Assembly experience essential, preferably in Aerospace
• Bench work sub-assemblies, working with small to medium sized precision components.
• Assembly of components using specialised fasteners, blind and solid rivets, hi-locks, anchor nuts etc
• Manual drilling, reaming & countersinking using handheld and air powered tools.
• Bonding/sealing using aerospace sealants and adhesives.
• Torque tightened bolts and nuts.
• Electrical Bonding and checks
• Assemble of prototype components in conjunction with the Manufacturing Engineers
• Use of jigs and fixture
• Fabrication of sheet metal components i.e., folding, hand forming, shrinking/stretching would be an advantage but training can be provided.
• Work to Marshall & OEM engineering data and in some instances 3D models
• Working to a schedule of work to meet on-time delivery and to the required quality requirements.
• Comply with all quality and HSE policies and procedures.

Benefits: ·Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell) ·Pension contributions up to 9%, healthcare cash plan for you and your children, extensive flexible benefit program. ·Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909.

About Marshall

Marshall is an independent, family-owned UK company with a diverse portfolio of businesses and a shared commitment to keeping our customers moving forward.

Whether that is supporting global armed forces to deliver mission-critical activities, keeping the UK distribution industry on the road, creating new sustainable communities where people can live and thrive, or developing the next generations of industry talent - we are incredibly proud to have been building extraordinary futures since 1909.

Marshall Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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• Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, private healthcare, car allowance and an extensive flexible benefit programme
• This role is required to be on site in Cambridge on a full-time basis
• There may be occasional travel
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
• Marshall will be moving to Alconbury Weald (PE28) at the end of 2025

What we are looking for

This role of Senior Production Manager is key to ensuring the success of a significant business programme operationally, taking responsibility and ownership of the production plan and area, driving delivery performance, and adherence to budget, with a focus on implementation of improvements.

In addition, managing associated dependencies and line management of a project specific team across multiple functions.

Supporting the Programme Director the successful Senior Production Manager will work collaboratively alongside the other functional managers to meet delivery objectives, manage performance, and ensure quality standards are maintained whilst fostering a safe working culture.

Responsibilities will include:

• Full accountability for the significant production programme and area for all SQCDP metrics and the high level configuration and conformance of delivered product.
• Managing and leading a team of supervisors and/or team leaders to manufacture, assemble and build specialist products, on time, at the right quality and cost.

• Ensuring that all resources are working at the right levels of responsibility, and provide additional training as part of the PDR process as required.
• Proactively promoting a health & safety culture that is aligned with the MLS health & safety management system.
• Creating a continuous improvement environment within the workplace to drive and improve efficiencies in line with business cost reduction initiatives.
• Taking ownership of local policies and procedures and ensuring they are adhered to
• Actively engaging the team to create a positive mindset that will deliver all milestones and KPIs, and where necessary proactively provide recovery plans with route cause analysis and problem solving from lessons learned.
• Creating an autonomous team that provide a can-do attitude working legally, morally and ethically.

Tasks:

• Supporting SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) level 2 meetings and escalate issues to level 1 as appropriate.
• Monitoring and managing performance to budget (product/programme/overhead) and schedule; ensuring any issues and dependencies are managed and escalated where appropriate via the appropriate mechanisms.
• Supporting the programme team by forecasting Estimates to Completion and cost and schedule impact of engineering change in accordance with internal change management process.
• Supporting the programme team in defining and presenting Operations status updates in project meetings and contract status reviews.
• Ensuring coherent and consistent communications both up to the Programme Director, Head of Operations, and the executive team, and to the workforce via your team of production supervisors and team leaders.
• Supporting the Project Manager in understanding, quantifying, and managing risk to the project and/or program via internal risk reviews.
• Preparing for and supporting applicable gate reviews in accordance with Marshall's Life Cycle Management process (e.g., Production Readiness Reviews).
• Leading a cross- functional mobilisation team in preparation for new product introduction.
• Ensuring that manning levels and skill requirements are aligned to the production plan, and consider future capacity requirements through the SOP (sales and operation planning process).
• Submitting yearly budgets in line with production requirements and CAPEX/control and forecasting.
• Supporting the bid team from a production perspective to enable the bid process to progress efficiently.
• Ensuring regular performance reviews are undertaken with all supervisors; role model and ensure supervisors recognise strong operational performance and act on under-performance without hesitation.
• Succession planning to develop team members into future roles within the business.

• Attending senior leadership meetings, representing the production programme and as directed in line with business requirements.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

Experience:

• Substantial experience in manufacturing and assembly processes and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience managing a diverse team of individuals in multiple trades.
• Proven ability to be able to lead a team through a period of strategic change, and ability to create winning teams.
• Desirable experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.
• Desirable understanding and ability to read engineering drawings and associated design data.
• The ability to interact with all members of the team and possible customer interface.
• Consistent proven application to related tasks with a strong positive attitude.
• Proficiency with MS suite, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and MRP.
• Understanding of policies and procedures required to manage a team within a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5s techniques.
• Health and Safety, Fire and Environmental Policies.

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.

• Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, private healthcare, car allowance and an extensive flexible benefit programme
• This role is required to be on site in Cambridge on a full-time basis
• There may be occasional travel
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
• Marshall Land Systems will be moving to Alconbury Weald (PE28) at the end of 2025

What we are looking for

This role of Senior Production Manager is key to ensuring the success of a significant business programme operationally, taking responsibility and ownership of the production plan and area, driving delivery performance, and adherence to budget, with a focus on implementation of improvements.

In addition, managing associated dependencies and line management of a project specific team across multiple functions.

Supporting the Marshall Land Systems Programme Director the successful Senior Production Manager will work collaboratively alongside the other functional managers to meet delivery objectives, manage performance, and ensure quality standards are maintained whilst fostering a safe working culture.

Responsibilities will include:

• Full accountability for the significant production programme and area for all SQCDP metrics and the high level configuration and conformance of delivered product.
• Managing and leading a team of supervisors and/or team leaders to manufacture, assemble and build Land Systems specialist products, on time, at the right quality and cost.

• Ensuring that all resources are working at the right levels of responsibility, and provide additional training as part of the PDR process as required.
• Proactively promoting a health & safety culture that is aligned with the MLS health & safety management system.
• Creating a continuous improvement environment within the workplace to drive and improve efficiencies in line with business cost reduction initiatives.
• Taking ownership of local policies and procedures and ensuring they are adhered to
• Actively engaging the team to create a positive mindset that will deliver all milestones and KPIs, and where necessary proactively provide recovery plans with route cause analysis and problem solving from lessons learned.
• Creating an autonomous team that provide a can-do attitude working legally, morally and ethically.

Tasks:

• Supporting SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) level 2 meetings and escalate issues to level 1 as appropriate.
• Monitoring and managing performance to budget (product/programme/overhead) and schedule; ensuring any issues and dependencies are managed and escalated where appropriate via the appropriate mechanisms.
• Supporting the programme team by forecasting Estimates to Completion and cost and schedule impact of engineering change in accordance with internal change management process.
• Supporting the programme team in defining and presenting Operations status updates in project meetings and contract status reviews.
• Ensuring coherent and consistent communications both up to the Programme Director, Head of Operations, and the executive team, and to the workforce via your team of production supervisors and team leaders.
• Supporting the Project Manager in understanding, quantifying, and managing risk to the project and/or program via internal risk reviews.
• Preparing for and supporting applicable gate reviews in accordance with Marshall's Life Cycle Management process (e.g., Production Readiness Reviews).
• Leading a cross- functional mobilisation team in preparation for new product introduction.
• Ensuring that manning levels and skill requirements are aligned to the production plan, and consider future capacity requirements through the SOP (sales and operation planning process).
• Submitting yearly budgets in line with production requirements and CAPEX/control and forecasting.
• Supporting the bid team from a production perspective to enable the bid process to progress efficiently.
• Ensuring regular performance reviews are undertaken with all supervisors; role model and ensure supervisors recognise strong operational performance and act on under-performance without hesitation.
• Succession planning to develop team members into future roles within the business.

• Attending senior leadership meetings, representing the production programme and as directed in line with business requirements.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

Experience:

• Substantial experience in manufacturing and assembly processes and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience managing a diverse team of individuals in multiple trades.
• Proven ability to be able to lead a team through a period of strategic change, and ability to create winning teams.
• Desirable experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.
• Desirable understanding and ability to read engineering drawings and associated design data.
• The ability to interact with all members of the team and possible customer interface.
• Consistent proven application to related tasks with a strong positive attitude.
• Proficiency with MS suite, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and MRP.
• Understanding of policies and procedures required to manage a team within a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5s techniques.
• Health and Safety, Fire and Environmental Policies.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• IOSH Managing safely certification preferable.
• Preferable to have Leadership qualification, CMI, LM.

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall Land Systems specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.

Job Description

General Summary:

The Supervisor, Manufacturing Operations leads shift work in the cell therapy clinical manufacturing facility, assigning work according to detailed schedules and plans. Responsible for daily cGMP operations in the Vertex Drug Product Facility, including the set-up, assembly, operation, disassembly, and cleaning of process equipment, and overseeing the daily work of shift personnel.

Responsible for daily operations and staff allocations for first shift personnel.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Interface with relevant cross functional groups necessary for the operation and maintenance of the facility and manufacturing of drug product.

• Execute and witness batch record instructions during cGMP operations.

• Maintain facility in an audit ready state.

• Supervise manufacturing personnel

• Monitor GMP compliance in all cGMP activities with co-workers and anyone working within the Drug Product facility.

• Maintain compliance with all on-going training requirements.

• Follow SOPs, policies and all other relevant work instructions to ensure the successful and compliance operation of the drug product facility.

Knowledge and Skills:

• A solid understanding of the cGMP framework in the context of both development and commercial pharmaceutical drug product manufacturing environment.

• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions in English.

• Visual Acuity.

• Ability to distinguish between the colors red, yellow, blue and green.

• Ability to lift up to 50lbs.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Strong communication skills, as well as excellent documentation skills.

• Basic computer skills and demonstrated ability to learn new systems and understand new technologies.

• Occasional availability to work on other shifts may be necessary for onboarding and training.

Experience:

• Typically requires 3 years of relevant work experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience

• Supervisory experience

• Experience with manufacturing systems utilizing computerized control systems and HMIs

• Experience with continuous manufacturing and with manufacturing processes relevant to cell and gene therapy

Company Information

• Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, private healthcare, car allowance and an extensive flexible benefit programme
• This role is required to be on site in Cambridge on a full-time basis
• There may be occasional travel
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
• Marshall Land Systems will be moving to Alconbury Weald (PE28) at the end of 2025

What we are looking for

This role of Senior Production Manager is key to ensuring the success of a significant business programme operationally, taking responsibility and ownership of the production plan and area, driving delivery performance, and adherence to budget, with a focus on implementation of improvements.

In addition, managing associated dependencies and line management of a project specific team across multiple functions.

Supporting the Marshall Land Systems Programme Director the successful Senior Production Manager will work collaboratively alongside the other functional managers to meet delivery objectives, manage performance, and ensure quality standards are maintained whilst fostering a safe working culture.

Responsibilities will include:

• Full accountability for the significant production programme and area for all SQCDP metrics and the high level configuration and conformance of delivered product.
• Managing and leading a team of supervisors and/or team leaders to manufacture, assemble and build Land Systems specialist products, on time, at the right quality and cost.

• Ensuring that all resources are working at the right levels of responsibility, and provide additional training as part of the PDR process as required.
• Proactively promoting a health & safety culture that is aligned with the MLS health & safety management system.
• Creating a continuous improvement environment within the workplace to drive and improve efficiencies in line with business cost reduction initiatives.
• Taking ownership of local policies and procedures and ensuring they are adhered to
• Actively engaging the team to create a positive mindset that will deliver all milestones and KPIs, and where necessary proactively provide recovery plans with route cause analysis and problem solving from lessons learned.
• Creating an autonomous team that provide a can-do attitude working legally, morally and ethically.

Tasks:

• Supporting SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) level 2 meetings and escalate issues to level 1 as appropriate.
• Monitoring and managing performance to budget (product/programme/overhead) and schedule; ensuring any issues and dependencies are managed and escalated where appropriate via the appropriate mechanisms.
• Supporting the programme team by forecasting Estimates to Completion and cost and schedule impact of engineering change in accordance with internal change management process.
• Supporting the programme team in defining and presenting Operations status updates in project meetings and contract status reviews.
• Ensuring coherent and consistent communications both up to the Programme Director, Head of Operations, and the executive team, and to the workforce via your team of production supervisors and team leaders.
• Supporting the Project Manager in understanding, quantifying, and managing risk to the project and/or program via internal risk reviews.
• Preparing for and supporting applicable gate reviews in accordance with Marshall's Life Cycle Management process (e.g., Production Readiness Reviews).
• Leading a cross- functional mobilisation team in preparation for new product introduction.
• Ensuring that manning levels and skill requirements are aligned to the production plan, and consider future capacity requirements through the SOP (sales and operation planning process).
• Submitting yearly budgets in line with production requirements and CAPEX/control and forecasting.
• Supporting the bid team from a production perspective to enable the bid process to progress efficiently.
• Ensuring regular performance reviews are undertaken with all supervisors; role model and ensure supervisors recognise strong operational performance and act on under-performance without hesitation.
• Succession planning to develop team members into future roles within the business.

• Attending senior leadership meetings, representing the production programme and as directed in line with business requirements.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

Experience:

• Substantial experience in manufacturing and assembly processes and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience managing a diverse team of individuals in multiple trades.
• Proven ability to be able to lead a team through a period of strategic change, and ability to create winning teams.
• Desirable experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.
• Desirable understanding and ability to read engineering drawings and associated design data.
• The ability to interact with all members of the team and possible customer interface.
• Consistent proven application to related tasks with a strong positive attitude.
• Proficiency with MS suite, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and MRP.
• Understanding of policies and procedures required to manage a team within a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5s techniques.
• Health and Safety, Fire and Environmental Policies.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• IOSH Managing safely certification preferable.
• Preferable to have Leadership qualification, CMI, LM.

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall Land Systems specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.

• Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, private healthcare, car allowance and an extensive flexible benefit programme
• This role is required to be on site in Cambridge on a full-time basis
• There may be occasional travel
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
• Marshall Land Systems will be moving to Alconbury Weald (PE28) at the end of 2025

What we are looking for

This role of Senior Production Manager is key to ensuring the success of a significant business programme operationally, taking responsibility and ownership of the production plan and area, driving delivery performance, and adherence to budget, with a focus on implementation of improvements.

In addition, managing associated dependencies and line management of a project specific team across multiple functions.

Supporting the Marshall Land Systems Programme Director the successful Senior Production Manager will work collaboratively alongside the other functional managers to meet delivery objectives, manage performance, and ensure quality standards are maintained whilst fostering a safe working culture.

Responsibilities will include:

• Full accountability for the significant production programme and area for all SQCDP metrics and the high level configuration and conformance of delivered product.
• Managing and leading a team of supervisors and/or team leaders to manufacture, assemble and build Land Systems specialist products, on time, at the right quality and cost.

• Ensuring that all resources are working at the right levels of responsibility, and provide additional training as part of the PDR process as required.
• Proactively promoting a health & safety culture that is aligned with the MLS health & safety management system.
• Creating a continuous improvement environment within the workplace to drive and improve efficiencies in line with business cost reduction initiatives.
• Taking ownership of local policies and procedures and ensuring they are adhered to
• Actively engaging the team to create a positive mindset that will deliver all milestones and KPIs, and where necessary proactively provide recovery plans with route cause analysis and problem solving from lessons learned.
• Creating an autonomous team that provide a can-do attitude working legally, morally and ethically.

Tasks:

• Supporting SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) level 2 meetings and escalate issues to level 1 as appropriate.
• Monitoring and managing performance to budget (product/programme/overhead) and schedule; ensuring any issues and dependencies are managed and escalated where appropriate via the appropriate mechanisms.
• Supporting the programme team by forecasting Estimates to Completion and cost and schedule impact of engineering change in accordance with internal change management process.
• Supporting the programme team in defining and presenting Operations status updates in project meetings and contract status reviews.
• Ensuring coherent and consistent communications both up to the Programme Director, Head of Operations, and the executive team, and to the workforce via your team of production supervisors and team leaders.
• Supporting the Project Manager in understanding, quantifying, and managing risk to the project and/or program via internal risk reviews.
• Preparing for and supporting applicable gate reviews in accordance with Marshall's Life Cycle Management process (e.g., Production Readiness Reviews).
• Leading a cross- functional mobilisation team in preparation for new product introduction.
• Ensuring that manning levels and skill requirements are aligned to the production plan, and consider future capacity requirements through the SOP (sales and operation planning process).
• Submitting yearly budgets in line with production requirements and CAPEX/control and forecasting.
• Supporting the bid team from a production perspective to enable the bid process to progress efficiently.
• Ensuring regular performance reviews are undertaken with all supervisors; role model and ensure supervisors recognise strong operational performance and act on under-performance without hesitation.
• Succession planning to develop team members into future roles within the business.

• Attending senior leadership meetings, representing the production programme and as directed in line with business requirements.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

Experience:

• Substantial experience in manufacturing and assembly processes and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience managing a diverse team of individuals in multiple trades.
• Proven ability to be able to lead a team through a period of strategic change, and ability to create winning teams.
• Desirable experience in vehicle body building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.
• Desirable understanding and ability to read engineering drawings and associated design data.
• The ability to interact with all members of the team and possible customer interface.
• Consistent proven application to related tasks with a strong positive attitude.
• Proficiency with MS suite, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and MRP.
• Understanding of policies and procedures required to manage a team within a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5s techniques.
• Health and Safety, Fire and Environmental Policies.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• IOSH Managing safely certification preferable.
• Preferable to have Leadership qualification, CMI, LM.

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall Land Systems specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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The benefits we offer you will include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
• Pension contributions up to 9%
• Healthcare cash plan for you and your children
• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Paid volunteering leave
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools
• Opportunities to develop your skill set and gain additional qualifications
• Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
• Marshall Land Systems have announced that they will be moving the Cambridge site to Alconbury Weald (PE28). Planned move will be towards the end of 2025

About the Role:

Reporting directly to the Production Manager of a section within the manufacturing environment, we are looking for a Production Supervisor who will be responsible for the SQCDP (safety, quality, cost, delivery, people) of their allocated area. As a Production Supervisor you will be responsible for the management of a number of team leaders that will support the you to achieve all key milestones and KPI's.

You will provide leadership to the team and support team leaders in coordinating workloads, providing support, monitoring issues, and ensuring quality standards are maintained whilst fostering a safe working culture.

Responsibilities will include:

• Adherence to project schedules and key delivery milestones.
• Adherence to allocated project budgets.
• Control of all technical documentation within the production environment.
• Leading production meetings with key internal stakeholders.
• Working with the planning department to maintain delivery targets
• Supporting the Production Manager in conducting interviews as required.
• Promoting a safe working environment by delivering safety coaching conversations, reporting accidents, performing root cause analyses and implementation of preventative actions.
• Ensuring full adherence to 5S practices.
• Ensuring all local policies and procedures are adhered to
• Build a relationship with team based on mutual trust; keep commitments and promises
• Willingly delegate tasks giving clear instructions; ensure the team are clear on their responsibilities
• Encourage others to come up with ideas and provide support even when not successful; learn from successes and failures
• Actively support and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Act as a facilitator to provide positive leadership when facing business challenges

• Supporting DFMA reviews to identify opportunities to optimise the design for manufacture and assembly.

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Expertise in Manufacturing and Assembly processes and techniques.
• Understanding of Production methods and processes.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and associated design data.
• Competent written and verbal skills.
• IT skills i.e. Word, Excel and MRP & Microsoft Projects.
• Management Skills and ability to communicate and lead an individual or team.
• The ability to Identify the root cause of a problem and provide the possible solutions; Recognise similarities in patterns or data

Education:

• City and Guilds Apprenticeship or equivalent in Vehicle Body Building, Mechanical Fitting or a Manufacturing and Assembly Qualification.

• IOSH Managing safely certification is preferable however training could be provided.

Experience:

• Vehicle Body Building, mechanical fitting, or equivalent trade.
• Understand and competent in planning methods and skills.
• Experience of leading a team, including team leaders

Additional local needs

• This role is required to be based on-site full time
• There may be occasional travel
• There may a need for flexibility to meet the needs of the projects as required

About Marshall Land Systems

Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall Land Systems specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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