Head of Manufacturing

Your new company
An established and rapidly expanding manufacturing organisation in Banbridge is continuing its impressive growth journey and investing heavily in its people, facilities, and operational capability. Known for delivering high quality engineered solutions across multiple sites, the business has recently undergone significant positive transformation, including the development of a new business unit, the introduction of modern systems and processes, and the strengthening of its senior leadership structure. With major long term projects secured and continued investment in state of the art facilities, this is a company with real momentum, strong market confidence, and an unwavering commitment to innovation and operational excellence.

Your new role
As Head of Manufacturing, you will play a central role in shaping how the multi site manufacturing operation delivers today and evolves for the future. Working closely with the Business Unit Manager and a highly engaged senior leadership team, you will oversee Production Managers, Engineering, and supervisory teams to ensure safe, efficient, right first time output. You will lead the planning and delivery of production across all feeder sites, ensuring projects flow smoothly, capacity aligns with demand, and teams are supported to perform at their best. This is a hands on leadership role where you will influence culture, mentor and develop leaders, drive operational performance, remove bottlenecks, and embed a strong sense of accountability and pride across the workforce. You will be instrumental in building a consistent, scalable, high performing manufacturing function.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be an experienced manufacturing leader with the ability to lead with clarity, intent, and genuine ownership. You will bring a proven track record of managing multi site operations and leading large teams through growth, change, and continuous improvement. Strong people skills are essential, along with the ability to set direction, build capability, and develop high performing leadership teams. You will be confident managing production planning, capacity, quality, and HSE requirements while balancing day to day delivery with long term strategic improvement. Above all, you will be someone who challenges constructively, learns continuously, and is motivated by the opportunity to shape a function and make a lasting impact.

What you'll get in return
You will be joining an ambitious, forward thinking organisation that genuinely invests in its people and celebrates success. You will benefit from exceptional training and development opportunities, a supportive senior leadership team, and the chance to influence operations at scale. The company offers a comprehensive benefits package including a competitive pension, life assurance, health cash plan, annual health checks, wellbeing initiatives, and enhanced annual leave with service. Employees enjoy access to state of the art facilities, free onsite parking, electric vehicle charging, funded team building events, and a range of social activities delivered throughout the year. This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of a major manufacturing function within a company on a strong upward trajectory.

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