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Production / Workshop Manager – High End Residential Joinery
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Production / Workshop Manager – High End Residential Joinery
Location: Kent
Salary: £50,000 – £60,000
We’re recruiting for a well-established and highly regarded specialist joinery contractor working on some of London’s most prestigious private residential projects. They produce and install bespoke, high-value joinery packages – from detailed cabinetry to full interior fit-outs – on projects typically ranging from £200k to over £1m in value.
The Role - Production / Workshop Manager
This is a role for someone who takes ownership. You will be responsible for making sure the production process flows effectively. You will have the ability to get the best from people, have difficult conversations when necessary, and keep production on track. You will coordinate production across the workshop, working closely with the various departmental heads and production teams to maintain programme, quality, and output.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing and coordinating the workflow through the workshop from production drawings and work orders through to completion and delivery.
- Taking ownership of the production programme and ensuring work is progressing in line with project and installation dates.
- Allocating and prioritising work and making sure production teams are clear on what needs to be delivered.
- Monitoring progress and addressing delays, technical issues, and resource constraints before they impact the programme.
- Coordinating components and materials being supplied by external specialists.
- Working with the wider project and design teams to identify potential production issues and buildability concerns.
- Taking ownership of workshop quality and ensuring finished work meets the required standard.
- Ensuring completed items are correctly inspected, protected, wrapped, labelled, and prepared for delivery.
- Coordinating loading and ensuring deliveries are complete and correctly organised.
- Monitoring workshop capacity, labour requirements, materials, and consumables.
- Taking ownership of health and safety across the production and workshop areas.
- Managing, motivating, and developing workshop personnel.
- Driving accountability and ensuring agreed production targets and deadlines are achieved.
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This role would suit an experienced Workshop Manager, Production Manager, Joinery Manager, or similar who understands joinery manufacturing and is confident managing people and production processes. Previous experience within high-end or bespoke joinery would be advantageous but is not essential. The important requirement is a solid understanding of joinery and the ability to manage a busy production operation effectively.
If you are an experienced joinery professional who has moved into production management and wants genuine responsibility for making a workshop operation work efficiently, this could be an excellent opportunity.
Click Apply or contact Rob James at 020 8502 0111 for more information.
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