Production Manager Do you want to join us in helping to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enabling access to care for more people around the world? At Siemens Healthineers, we pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. We offer you a flexible and dynamic environment with opportunities to go beyond your comfort zone in order to grow personally and professionally. Sound interesting? Then come and join our team as an Instruments Production Manager. You will manage all aspects of resource planning, production scheduling and manufacturing for our Instrument products. You will have ownership for all product lines and be responsible for proactively challenging output and results through analysis of efficiency reports, First Time Pass Rate data, and will drive the area production line managers in being the key instigators and leads for CIP activities. You will be champion for improvements in Quality and productivity through strategic thinking to drive to be World Class. Our Healthcare Diagnostics business is based at our site in Sudbury, Suffolk. Recently celebrating 80 years of manufacturing excellence, our Sudbury site designs and assembles blood, urine and diabetes analysis instruments. As a Production Manager, you will be responsible for: Managing the production operation with focus on Quality, Customer Service and Costs ensuring all product lines are driving to achieve due dates thus reducing potential for missed customer orders. Carrying out regular broad load trend analysis, to optimise capacity plans and to maintain the optimal level of direct staff. This will include review of departmental (and by costs centre) the utilisation & efficiency levels of the operations to identify root cause of lost productivity. These reviews will result in the setting of budgets annually for all spend, resource requirements and capital expenditure Contributing actively towards reducing year-on-year product cost movements by improving production utilisation & efficiency and ensuring all CI activities are resourced, managed and driven to successful completion. Complying with and support the Health, Safety and Environment statements, policies and procedures as well as ensuring that all H&S audits are carried out accordingly as well as annual assessments. To investigate any EHS incident raised within the area to drive to a Zero Harm culture. Required skills to have for the success of this role To have a general knowledge of finance and budgeting to allow affective analysis and cost control through to budget setting activities. To bring knowledge of alternative approaches, identifies best practice through previous experience and benchmarking to a manufacturing environment to enable change in processes (need to validate changes) and to drive the utilisation & efficiency of the group to reduce costs and improve quality. Is a change agent and can motivate and empower teams to deliver Being part of our team Based on multiple sites in Chilton Industrial Estate, Sudbury, we design and assemble blood, urine and diabetes analysis instruments. With our point-of-care testing systems, Siemens Healthineers delivers lab-accurate, actionable, and timely results on the spot. You can find more information here. Our culture: We are part of an incredible community of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, to improve people’s lives around the world. We embrace a culture of inclusivity in which the power and potential of every individual can be unleashed. We spark ideas that lead to positive impact and continued success. Siemens Healthineers has been Certified™ as a ‘great place to work’. We are inspired to transform the way things are done – because we want what is best for our people, our customers, and ultimately to help everyone live longer and healthier lives. To find out more about our business and recent news, please explore our website. Benefits: A competitive salary Generous pension contributions 26 days holiday Access to our flexible benefits from private medical insurance to dental cover Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities including 2 paid volunteering days per year Support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme We recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working. Organization: Siemens Healthineers Company: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Manufacturing Ltd Experience Level: not defined Job Type: Full-time