Production Manager

Salary 45,000

Location Steeton

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

We are currently looking for an experienced and driven Production Manager to join our team based at our factory in Steeton, (West Yorkshire).

The Production Manager leads a multi-shift workforce of over 60 employees to ensure the safe, efficient, and continuous operation of a stairlift manufacturing facility. This role drives consistent, high-quality production across all shifts by developing teams, standardizing processes, and ensuring seamless handovers to maintain operational continuity.

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am - 4.30pm

Salary : £45,000

Benefits of working at Acorn:

Induction and training programme
Investors in People award
Healthcare and pension provisions
Free on-site parking
Excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, and Skipton
Cycle to work scheme
Company Events
On site Canteen (Subsidised food)
Gym Membership discounts
Health & wellbeing programme

Key Responsibilities :

Production & Delivery Strategy: Execute the multi-shift production plan to meet customer demand for custom stairlifts, optimizing capacity, workflow, and labor utilization.
Team Leadership & Development: Oversee a 24-hour (3-shift) operation, coaching Shift Supervisors, setting clear performance standards, and ensuring seamless shift handovers.
Health, Safety & Quality Compliance: Champion a "safety-first" and "right first time" culture, ensuring strict adherence to HSE regulations and safety-critical product standards while actively reducing defects and rework.
Performance & KPI Management: Track, report, and drive accountability across core operational KPIs, including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), output, scrap, downtime, and absenteeism.
Continuous Improvement: Identify process bottlenecks and lead targeted improvement initiatives to maximize throughput, minimize waste, and control manufacturing costs (labor and materials).
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Supply Chain to ensure material availability, Quality to resolve warranty issues, and Maintenance to maximize equipment reliability and minimize downtime.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Proven experience managing production in a manufacturing environment
Experience leading multi-shift teams
Background in manufacturing production
Strong understanding of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
Excellent organisational and planning skills in a high-volume environment
Ability to manage complexity across multiple shifts
Data driven decision making (KPIS, OEE, labour metrics)
Strong communication, especially for cross-shift alignment

Must be able to display the Acorn Values

OUR VALUES

Quality of the products we make and sell and the service we provide
Unity Working together as one team
Integrity Acting responsibly and honestly to deliver on our promises
Caring About our customers, each other and the wider community
Ambition Taking Pride in all we do and striving to improve

We Recognise Your Efforts

Acorn Achievers: Monthly awards scheme with £100 vouchers for winners and £50 vouchers for runners-up.
Recommend a Friend: Earn up to £100 if your referral joins Acorn.

All recruitment communications will come solely from our internal Recruitment Team at Acorn Stairlifts.

Please note: this position may close early if we receive a high volume of qualified applications. To ensure ample consideration, please submit your application as soon as possible.

The Company

Acorn is a world-leading company, producing over 70,000 stairlifts annually and trading in more than 80 countries. A one-stop-shop for stairlifts, Acorn manufactures, sells direct to the public, installs and maintains home stairlifts. It has built its global reputation on quality, reliability, customer service and industry-leading response times, especially for curved stairlifts.

Employing over 1,500 people worldwide, Acorn offers a wide range of career opportunities in all sectors of its growing business. It is committed to placing the right people in roles which match their abilities and ambitions, then helping them develop still further to reach their full potential as part of the Acorn team.