Job Description

Senior Production Manager

Location: Crewe
Salary: Up to £67,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 per week | Monday–Friday | 07:00–15:30 (flexibility around core hours)

Are you a proven leader in heavy maintenance environments, ready to take ownership of multiple high-profile projects in a fast-paced, operationally critical setting?

This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior role where your leadership, judgement, and delivery focus will directly influence performance across several sites.

Working in partnership with a well-established engineering and manufacturing organisation, this role places you at the heart of complex heavy maintenance delivery. Acting as a Senior Production Manager, you will lead five Heavy Maintenance Production Managers and a substantial workforce across production and business operations.

You will be responsible for balancing safety, governance, performance, and stakeholder expectations all while navigating a constantly evolving operational landscape.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and oversee the delivery of multiple major heavy maintenance projects.
• Own health & safety compliance, including risk assessments and site safety governance.
• Develop and embed governance and assurance frameworks to protect operational integrity.
• Drive accurate, real-time reporting in a dynamic, change-heavy environment.
• Optimise production by strategically managing resources and skill sets.
• Build trusted relationships with customers and senior stakeholders.
• Champion continuous improvement, coaching and developing managers and teams to perform at their best.

This is a role for someone who enjoys accountability, thrives under pressure, and wants genuine influence over outcomes.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Proven experience delivering heavy maintenance or complex engineering projects.
• Strong people leadership capability with a coaching mindset
• Experience with risk assessment and safety management.
• A strategic yet hands-on approach, able to adapt to shifting priorities.
• High attention to detail with strong reporting and administrative discipline
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Knowledge of governance and assurance frameworks (desirable, not essential)

Key dates:

• We are looking to invite candidates to Interview from: Week commencing 19 January 2026
• Proposed start date: March 2026

If you’re ready to step into a senior delivery role where leadership truly matters, we’d like to hear from you.

About Ford & Stanley Group

Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership, and occupational mental fitness. We support our clients in their most challenging business areas recruiting, developing, and retaining the best talent from shop floor to boardroom.

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Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group Ltd is a Disability Confident employer that is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall always adhere to such a policy and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.