Production Manager - Natural Stone Products - Dorset

Lovell Stone Group is a growing, well-established family-run business which owns and operates six quarries across the South West. We have a unique opportunity for Production Manager, sawing operations, to join our team. This would be an exciting position for a stone mason looking to develop their career path and skills within the industry and offers long term opportunities to expand the scope of the role.

The role:

The Production Manager will oversee our sawing operations of British Stone to ensure efficient production schedules whilst maintaining high quality products. They will also work in close partnership with the masonry team at our Purbeck site. This role is also hands on; helping with the production when workload dictates and and to cover holiday absences and sickness. The successful candidate will ideally have a masonry background or experience of working in the industry in a similar role.

There will also be an opportunity to create programmes for the CNC profiler and 5 AXIS saw to help deliver masonry projects. If required, we will look to provide AutoCAD and EasyStone training for the role.

The ideal candidate will be a good communicator with great organisational skills and supervisory experience. Due to the nature of the role, you will need to be flexible and adaptable.

The successful candidate will:

Supervise and manage the sawyers based at Downs Quarry, Purbeck in Dorset
Manage production schedules in liaison with the commercial team
Ensure quality control of production/products
Liaise with the production teams - from the masons to our other production works
Health & Safety policies and procedures are followed and adhered to
Hands on production of product to assist with workload/holiday and sickness cover
Opportunity to develop the role to create programmes for the CNC profiler and 5 Axis

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