10th March, 2026
Manufacturing Manager | Witney | up to £40,000pa (£46,500pa inc bonus) & benefits:
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Manufacturing Manager to join a well-established specialist manufacturer in the Witney area. With growth plans to scale their £100m turnover business to over £200m over the next 5 years, this role is a key component to ensure that their manufacturing targets are met by leading a manufacturing team to deliver against manufacturing / targets and implement continuous and process improvement into manufacturing.
The Manufacturing Manager will need experience of managing and leading a similar medium to high volume manufacturing team. You will need to be able to set and work with manufacturing KPI's, labour efficiency, waste reporting etc. With a key focus on continuous improvement, the successful Manufacturing Manager will have some experience and knowledge of implementing Lean, 5s, 6 sigma etc, any certifications would be highly advantageous. You will also have experience of managing operators, technicians, supervisors, highlighting training requirements, dealing with recruitment, appraisals and so on.
The successful Manufacturing Manager will need the following experience and skills:
- Extensive plant level experience with significant proven supervisory experience
- Understanding of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Kaizen, lean manufacturing
- Understanding of manufacturing and procurement/supply chain
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems experience - preferably Sage X3
- Excellent leadership and man-management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members.
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Excellent organisational and follow-up skills.
- Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making.
- Constantly seek opportunities for self and career development (management and leadership training, external training/qualifications courses etc.).
Our client offers a competitive salary, standard day shift, bonus worth circa £6.5k, 25 days annual leave, Employer matched pension scheme, Death in Service scheme, Training & Development, Employee discounts platform (Perkbox), 'WeCare' well-being programme, Cycle-to-work scheme.
If you're a
Manufacturing Manager with the above experience, and you're looking to be part of an exciting growth phase, then please send MARS a copy of your CV.
MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven't heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.
MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles).
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