Production Manager (Manufacturing) Careers

Work Environment:

As a production manager (manufacturing), you'd ensure that production processes are economical, work efficiently, and deliver goods in time. You can work within all kinds of manufacturing industries, such as:

• vehicle assembly
• pharmaceuticals
• brewing

Being a production manager (manufacturing), your job would include 3 major areas of manufacturing procedure:

• planning: calculating costs and timescales, getting an order ready, and putting quality-standards
• supervision: ensuring that targets are accomplished, administering production line and managing staff
• control: administering schedules of production and adjusting schedules if issues arise

You'd work intimately with health and safety managers, training divisions, maintenance technicians, quality control, company purchasers, and suppliers.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

You can get on to this profession by beginning as a production operative within a production firm. Then, you can progress to team head and production management positions.

You can get on to this work by a scheme of Trainee ship with a manufacturing firm. The availability of Traineeships within your region will rely on regional employment market and the kind of abilities employers want from employees.

You can apply to management training program of a company by accomplishing BTEC: HND/HNC or degree into manufacturing. At universities, these manufacturing training-courses often specialize into a specific industry, e.g. pharmaceuticals or food-processing.

See the website of UCAS, for details regarding colleges and universities providing HNDs and degrees.

If you show that production manager have management experience, you might get into a management training-scheme without any qualifications.

Training Details:

You'd be given training at the work, by experienced employees. A management training-scheme will let you to get experience into different departments, learning working procedures and techniques, and gradually undertaking additional responsibility.

You can take any of the qualifications given as below:

• IOM (Institution of Operations-Management): Diploma/Certificate into Operations Management
• Third, Fourth and Fifth Level NVQ into Management
• Second to Fifth Level NVQ into Business Improvement-Techniques
• Fourth and Fifth Level NVQ into Project Management
• CMI (Chartered-Management Institution): Diplomas and Certificates

These associations also provide various short courses. Check the websites of CQI, ILM, CMI, and IOM, for further information.

Skills and knowledge:

• a knowledge of health and safety measures
• excellent presentation-skills
• a readiness to work in a flexible manner
• capability to communicate with employees at every level
• an understanding of production quality standards
• capability to meet targets
• IT and mathematical abilities
• a knowledge of production processes
• excellent project-management abilities
• capability to take decisions under-pressure
• excellent problem resolving abilities

Salary and Other Benefits:

• Initial remunerations for trainees can be about £19,000 to £25,000 for a year.
• Average earnings of production managers can range from £26,000 to £41,000.
• Production managers having complete responsibility of production may get more than £46,000.

Working Conditions:

You'd work weekly for around 38 to 41 hours, including shift work and on call duties to handle out of hours issues.

Though you'd have your office, you'd spend much of working time at factory-floor, discussing routine matters with workers and supervisory staff. You'd put on protective outfits within production sections.

Different Opportunities:

You can discover work chances with engineering companies, food processing firms, pharmaceutical firms, and automotive producers and suppliers.

By experience you can advance to strategic-planning or factory management positions. You might have chance to work abroad, if you're working for large national/international firm.

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