Ontic, an aerospace industry leading provider of ‘Extended Life Solutions’ for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) legacy and non-core products, has an opportunity for a Production Manager to join our growing Operations team in Bishops Cleeve. You’ll play a pivotal role in supporting our manufacturing operations, ensuring a safe, efficient, and compliant environment.
Ontic is a more than just a business, we’re a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We’re committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.
The role:

You will be responsible for managing production output, acting as a direct escalation to support the operations team, and driving continuous improvement to enhance operational efficiency, and support business growth.

• Driving a Safety-first Culture supporting and ensuring a safe working environment for all teams.
• Optimize efficiency by reducing process time, to help drive a reduction in product manufacturing time.
• Manage production schedules to ensure we meet our customer and financial requirements.
• Ensure the operational KPI’s are in line with the business targets, ensuring action is taken when a negative trend is identified.
• Support the first time build process, acting as an operational focal and leading build events alongside the team to de risk and mitigate potential problems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Supply Chain, Planning, Quality, Engineering) to resolve issues and remove constraints
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and support the Value Creation Plan (VCP) through operational excellence.
• Support Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA) processes
• Contribute to strategic planning, production capacity management and readiness for business growth.
• Lead, coach, support and develop Cell Managers, fostering a high-performance culture and employee engagement.

About you:
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced production leader to drive operational success, efficiency, and long-term business growth. You’ll have a excellent leadership skills with a natural ability to coach, mentor and build successful teams. You’ll possess knowledge of lean manufacturing, CI tools, and production planning as well as excellent problem-solving skills and a positive collaborative approach.
You’ll need experience in leading product transitions and optimizing first-time build processes as well as the ability to support RCCA investigations and embed corrective actions effectively.
Benefits Overview
At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.

Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days paid leave plus bank holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.
Our values

Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you’ll enjoy a career with us!
We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you’ll enjoy a career with us

• Driving a Safety-first Culture supporting and ensuring a safe working environment for all teams.
• Optimize efficiency by reducing process time, to help drive a reduction in product manufacturing time.
• Manage production schedules to ensure we meet our customer and financial requirements.
• Ensure the operational KPI’s are in line with the business targets, ensuring action is taken when a negative trend is identified.
• Support the first time build process, acting as an operational focal and leading build events alongside the team to de risk and mitigate potential problems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Supply Chain, Planning, Quality, Engineering) to resolve issues and remove constraints
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and support the Value Creation Plan (VCP) through operational excellence.
• Support Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA) processes
• Contribute to strategic planning, production capacity management and readiness for business growth.
• Lead, coach, support and develop Cell Managers, fostering a high-performance culture and employee engagement