Job Title: Production Assembly Manager
Location:
Leicester, LEC, GB, LE49JD
Business Unit:
Taylor Hobson
Posting Date:
Apr 29, 2026
Job Description:
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Operational
- To lead and organise the Assembly Team to deliver business targets whilst driving best in class performance
- Develop a strategy to support ongoing business growth
- MLI & Spares OTD >95%
- Increase efficiency by 5% per annum
- Increase skills improving cross training
Operational Excellence
- To drive continuous improvement activities within the department. Continue to develop a culture within the Assembly Cells of continuous improvement.
- Deliver >£50K per annum of direct cost savings
- Implement systematic quality first mentality and culture
- Maintain and build upon a fit for purpose Assembly area and champion best practice
- Implement process standardisation throughout Assembly cells
Quality
- Improve quality in all areas of assembly through driving a quality culture
- Ensure corrective reports are raised for all assembly issues
- Review assembly causes for warranty and implement corrective actions
- Champion quality-based Kaizen events within teams
New Product Introductions
- Fully support NPI programmes and develop skills required to meet future business needs
- Drive the productionisation of new products to ensure ownership and capability after new product sign off
- Ensure all products meet Manufacturing Engineering targets for fit for production
Team Development
- Drive team culture to set the standard of operational excellence and capability within the business
- Increase skill matrix average flexibility scores by >15% pa
- Introduce development plans for increasing flexibility and career progression
- Provide skills to support NPI and service training plans
Essential and Desirable Skills:
Required Essential Skills:
- Experience in a Production Management
- Engineering/Technical background – Understand technical drawings, materials and manufacturing processes
- Have strong communication, interpersonal & influencing skills
- Positive attitude and enthusiastic
- Be analytical, numerically astute with strong proven problem-solving abilities
- Excellent problem-solving techniques
- Proven Cell development success
- Organised – able to document, handle, prioritise and deal with a high volume of projects and tasks • Strong IT Skills • Proven track record of developing talent
Desirable Skills:
- IT – MS Navision MRP System
- Project Management skills
- Advanced MS Excel skills
- Smartsheet Use and integration
Required Personal Attributes:
- Efficiency – Able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort
- Honesty/Integrity – Does not cut corners ethically. Earns trust and maintains confidence. Does what is right. Speaks plainly and truthfully.
- Follow through on commitments – Lives up to verbal and written agreements, regardless of personal costs.
- Attention to detail – Does not let important details slip through the cracks or derail a project
- Flexibility/adaptability – adjusts quickly to change priority and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change.
- Enthusiasm – Exhibits passion and excitement over work. Has a can-do attitude
- Worth Ethic – possess a strong willingness to work hard and sometimes long hours to get the job done. Has a track record of working hard
- High standards – Expects personal performance to be nothing short of the best
- Listening skills – Lets others speak and seeks to understand their viewpoints
- Communication – speaks and writes clearly and articulately without being over verbose or talkative.
- Teamwork – reaches out to peers and cooperates with managers to establish overall collaborative working relationship.
Qualifications or Relevant Work Experience:
- Certificated Management qualification
- 2 years in a similar role