Production Manager

Production Manager

A flexible team player responsible for coordinating, communicating, and managing day-to-day production activities to ensure efficient operations and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, monitor, and ensure on-time delivery of customer orders in coordination with Planning.


• Liaise with Logistics and Purchasing to ensure material availability.


• Produce weekly and monthly operational reports for the Operations Manager.


• Ensure all manufacturing activities comply with cGMP, SOPs, Health & Safety, and training requirements.


• Maintain compliance with validation standards and requirements.


• Lead investigations and ensure timely closure of PIRs and deviations.


• Support QA/QP in audit preparation and management.


• Review, approve, and maintain manufacturing and maintenance SOPs.


• Create, review, and approve Master Batch documentation.


• Set daily production targets and manage performance against KPIs.


• Analyse production metrics and lead root cause/corrective actions for missed targets.


• Maintain compliant and safe production areas.


• Drive team performance and motivation to achieve output targets.


• Optimise resources, including headcount planning with Operations Manager.


• Monitor and reduce waste across production.


• Manage yield, efficiency, cycle time, and throughput with shift supervisors.


• Approve overtime in coordination with Operations Manager.


• Ensure timely completion of staff appraisals and training reviews.


• Support recruitment and workforce planning.


• Ensure budgets are followed and expenditure is justified.


• Coordinate with maintenance to ensure equipment reliability.


• Support validation activities including IQ/OQ documentation.


• Ensure smooth cross-departmental communication to meet production schedules.


• Review TMS requirements weekly.

Skills & Experience

• Strong leadership and team management capability.


• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.


• Strong organisation and time management ability.


• High attention to detail in a fast paced environment.