Alstom
Production Manager
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Job Title
Req ID: 530783
Location: Based On-Site at Nottingham Tram Depot, NG7 7NW
Appointment Basis: Permanent. This is a shift-based role and will include days, nights, and weekend working.
Salary + Benefits: Circa £58,000 plus shift allowance of 5-10%, along with a performance-related bonus and a competitive benefits package.
About Alstom
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling, and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 86,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Your Future Role
The Production Manager is responsible for:
- Ensuring production targets, quality standards, and safety requirements are achieved through the execution of the production plan and through the efficient management of resources.
- Ensuring trams are delivered on time in a safe, clean, and fully functional condition to our customers.
- Ensuring infrastructure is maintained to the required standards.
Management
- Manage a Production Team, including monitoring and controlling Production on a shift-by-shift basis.
- Ensure accountability for production is clearly defined and delegated.
- Actively promote APSYS, AZDP, 5S, Lean maintenance philosophies, and methodologies.
- Plan and control leave entitlement for Team Members within set guidelines to meet the requirements of the business.
- Encourage continual professional development for staff within your areas of responsibility.
- Maintain good industrial relations within the area of responsibility, implementing disciplinary procedures for any serious staff irregularities.
- Maintain a well-disciplined workforce.
- Be proactive in identifying areas for improvement by personal checks, analysis of Tram incident reports, and complaints, initiating action to ensure improvements. Manage and carry out these investigations.
- Identify staffing requirements for budgeted fixed workload ensuring flexibility and high levels of productivity are achieved.
- Manage organizational change to optimize working practices and thus ensure a productive workforce.
- Identify training and other resource needs to facilitate production in the most effective way.
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EHS
- Ensure all Production meets the Safety and Quality requirements of internal standards, customer specifications.
- Monitor working practices and environment to ensure that staff and facilities meet the mandatory and/or statutory requirements.
- Ensure work is performed in a safe, effective manner and in accordance with the local policies and procedures.
Performance and Efficiency
- Minimize depot-operating costs and maximize depot-operating efficiencies through effective depot resource planning and controlling production overtime.
- Review work plans to ensure daily production targets are met as effectively and efficiently as possible. Conduct analysis where there was a failure to achieve production.
Continuous Improvement
- Proactively identify areas for improvement by analysis from production/service operation reports and customer complaints, initiating action to ensure improvements.
- Manage relationship with sub-contractors and the customer.
- Support continuous improvement of processes. Look for and implement changes to improve maintenance and operational processes.
About You
We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:
- Higher National Certificate, or equivalent qualification in an Engineering field preferable OR equivalent experience.
- Management experience of large groups of staff 10+
- Experience in fleet and/or maintenance operations and planning role.
- An understanding of Railway Depot and Railway Industry Operations preferable.
- An understanding of SAP and ability to use MS Office packages, Email & Intranet.
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Things You’ll Enjoy
Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.
You’ll also:
- Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines.
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
- Contribute to innovative projects.
- Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries.
- Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning.
- Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognizes your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension).
- Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday.
- A wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.
You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!
Equal Opportunity Statement
Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.
As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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