Where Do You Cover With The Coaching and Mentoring For Manufacturing Leaders

I cover the UK. Based in York I've conducted Coaching and Mentoring all over the UK. From Southampton to Aberdeen, Newquay to Hull.

We Have 2 or More Managers, a Leadership Team, How Does It Work For Them?

Call Me. I have conducted coaching across Manufacturing Leadership teams. Lets have a chat to see if the Manufacturing Leadership Coaching is right for you. If it is then we can talk about how we do it and the investment. The reality is often it just takes a bit of planning.

Coaching and Mentoring For Manufacturing Leaders

You've promoted from the shop floor, hired someone with experience but they aren't leading.
The shop floor feels "tense". There is always a fire to put out somewhere. Your teams don't communicate.
Customers are chasing for updates. You're the one left apologising
You don't really know your costs.
The schedule? there's always a reason for delays to orders.
Some staff are always moaning. Others appear to have checked out. They turn up, take the pay check but that's it.

You're thinking

"Do I let them go? Try one more conversation? or just carry on and hope for the best?"

Meanwhile you're still the one carrying the weight of the factory.

"We coach manufacturing leaders to lead teams, not firefight.”

Here's What I Do (And Why It Works):

I help manufacturing firms fix underperforming factories by developing the managers and leaders at the heart of the business.

No Theory. No Fluff. Just straight talking, on-site coaching that actually works.

How it works:

Observe & Assess — on-site review with you and the leadership team to assess what's really going happening to understand your leadership challenges.
Coach & Train — I work directly with your manufacturing leaders, your ops teams, side by side on a plan. I give them examples, a structure, training they've been missing. Build confidence and clarity.
Embed & Sustain — We agree clear, practical actions through monthly reviews, feedback and leadership updates. We track visible progress and support long-term performance.

This isn't a leadership "course", it isn't in a classroom.

It's not a 6 month programme.

It's hands-on, sleeves rolled-up, real support that gets results, fast.

Manufacturing Leadership is different to leading a function, say, HR, Finance or Engineering.

Did you require the people who run your departments or advise you on Finance, Marketing, Safety, HR? to have qualifications in the functions they run.

What about your Manufacturing Leaders? Are they trained in Production or were they just great at technical stuff?

You’ve given them control over the largest number of staff, over the largest part of your payroll costs.

Can they tell you how the MRP or ERP system works?

How to work out the finite capacity plan? Explain the difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control? Advise on the Economic Batch Quantities you should be making. Do they face up to the Staffing issues that keep occurring?

Hand on heart? Can they tell you

the Gross Costs of the products you make
how long products take to make or
how they schedule work.

Manufacturing Leaders are making decisions every hour of every day.

They are spinning plates on orders shipping out every day.

They are constantly prioritising what to be done next; regularly firefighting.

The truth is, the majority have never been trained in how to run the factory, fewer still in how to improve it.

The Coaching & Mentoring for Manufacturing Leaders IS FOR YOU, if;

you're a businesses, Production Director, Company Owner, FD, HR Manager who:

Who is part of a Senior Leadership Team with a Factory, Production Team, Site that isn't performing.
You believe that the problem might lie in an underperforming Manufacturing Leader or Factory Leadership team.
Your stuck between "Coach them, give them another chance" AND "fire and re-hire" and the disruption that brings.
You want someone who can help who gets manufacturing not just another clipboard, theory consultant
OR....
You're a Factory Leader, Manufacturing Leader who wants to be developed, trained
You want to help your firm deliver more, be better, stop fire fighting...

It's NOT for you if;

You want to delegate the problem and walk away. You need to be interested in solving the issue
You want theory or online training
You're not ready to support change internally

You Don't Have To Carry On Alone Anymore.

Lets Get The Weight Off Your Shoulders.

Fill in the Contact Form.

We'll Get In Touch To Arrange Your Free Factory Coaching Review

Or Call Mark on 07712 669396 Or email on mark@levantar.co.uk.

We'll dig into

What's Happening on the Shop Floor (or not, if that's the case)
What your manager's are struggling with
Whether this can be turned around and how fast

No Sales Pitch.

Just a straight conversation with someone who has helped manufacturing firms like yours turn things around.

Ready to Transform Your Manufacturing Leadership?

Fill the Contact Form In or Call Mark on 07712 669396 Today.

If you’re not sure whether the challenge lies with your leadership team or somewhere else in the factory, it can help to take a step back.

Our Factory Performance Diagnostic identifies where gaps in systems, processes, or behaviours are limiting performance. From there, you can decide whether the focus should be leadership development, process improvement, or both.
You can learn more about our Factory Performance Diagnostic service or explore our Lean Manufacturing Improvement approach to practical performance change.

UK Privately Owned Machinery Manufacturer.

Mechanical & Electrical design, CNC machining and Assembly capability.

Problem: Lead Times too long and getting longer, customers complaining.

Assessment carried out. Initial insight that improvements to coaching on scheduling would give the largest impact.

Within 12 weeks the output had been increased by 33% OR just over £1M per month!

Other projects could then be introduced, including reducing build time by 20% and improving quality control through several process.

Over the next 18 months,

Turnover grew by over 40%,
Gross Margin by over 80% and
Staffing numbers by just 8.5%.

The increased output came without increased staffing costs. Increasing the Margin.

Imagine that in your business.

UK Manufacturing plant with Laser Cutting, Fabrication, Welding, Paint and full Assembly operations.

Problem: Customer Orders Delivered Late and at risk of cancellation. Ops Management team had been unable to solve and resigned, leaving one Supervisor to hold the plant together.

Identified key bottleneck process and communication improvements. Worked directly with Supervisor and shop floor staff to manage the production process.

Within 20 days the weekly output had been increased from £120k a week to over £190k.
Increased output was maintained with no extra staff. FREE OUTPUT WITH NO LABOUR COSTS
Turnover increased from £6m to £10m in just 6 months.
Customers and Haulage firms gave positive feedback on the ability to hit agreed dates.

Staff then brough forward other projects which also improved quality and lead times, which convinced customers to stay.

We redefined the management roles and assisted in recruiting a new Ops Management team.

Doubled assembly output for a 240-year-old business.
Boosted machine output 70% in 3 months with proven improvement methods.
Increased output 60% in 3 weeks via smarter scheduling.
Lifted factory output 33% in 2 months with process overhaul.

Cut build time from 10 to 2 days; cleared backlogs, ended overtime.
Saved 2 hours daily per CNC machine with faster changeovers.
Cleared 3-month backlog; new leadership drove record sales.
Cut lead time 54%, launched products, hit record revenue after leadership loss.

Coaching Mentoring Manufacturing Leadership 7 Hats

What Are 7 Manufacturing Leadership Hats?

Manufacturing Management is requires MORE than being a great technical expert on the shop floor.

It starts with a great employee who has great knowledge of one process, one technique. You decide to promote them. It works until it doesn’t.

Your Manager is great wearing the Technical Expert Hat when it they are required to discuss their area of expertise. It includes their management of quality.

Now they are the expert everyone turns to across the factory. The expert sales, procurement, quality, dispatch teams all turn to. This is the first hat, they one they often default too. It’s the reason you promoted them. It’s their safe hat.

But it isn’t the one they should wear first every day.

Now they find they have responsibility for

Safety – they have to ensure audits are completed, near misses investigated, safe practices are adhered to. Safety standards are set, throughout the factory.
Work Organisation – which teams are doing what today, tomorrow, this week. Which orders will be completed, what is the maintenance plan, what work can be deferred?
People & HR – you want to gain a multiskilled staff. You need to organsise training, identify the right staff, the best courses. You might have absence issues, a member of staff with sudden care responsibilities. Someone who needs your support.
Continuous Improvement – if you read some sites, or as many job descriptions as I have you could be forgiven that this is the only focus of manufacturing leaders. Yes you will need to begin knowing some of the improvement techniques. The real power of wearing this hat comes from creating the conditions that allow Continuous Improvement (Lean, Six Sigma) or just great ideas flourish. You don’t have to have all the great ideas but it really helps when your team do.
Leadership – this can be the one most struggle with. Senior Managers, Owners want the Manufacturing Leaders to set up metrics, monitor on KPIs (Delivery, Quality, Costs). They need them to advise on Capex and Opex budgets. Be the person who leads the shop floor in the strategy, to be looking ahead, 3,6,12 months. They need them to feedback from the factory. The shop floor staff need to see them as being the representatives of the senior team, they look to them for direction and action.
Digital & AI – this is the latest hat that organisations are looking to their Manufacturing Leaders to wear. From implementing established software, ERP, MRP systems to CNC machines. Robotics and AI, real time monitoring systems, these are the challenges coming down the line. Are they digitally aware or digital naysayers?

Where Do You Cover With The Factory Performance Reviews

I cover the UK. Based in York I conduct Factory Performance Reviews all over the UK. From Southampton to Aberdeen, Newquay to Hull.

Which Manufacturing Sectors Does The Factory Performance Review Cover

I've have a breadth of experience working with organisations across all Manufacturing types from Chilled Foods to Heavy Engineering, from Drinks Production Lines to Electrical Assembly Units, from fabricating Farm Equipment to Plastic Moulding.

We Have 2 or More Sites, How Does It Work For Them?

Call Me. I have conducted reviews in organisations with 3+ sites. Lets have a chat to see if the Factory Performance Review is right for you. If it is then we can talk about how we do it and the investment. The reality is it just takes a bit of planning.

What Is The Plan We Get?

The Factory Performance Review aims to identify improvements and the projects to make these become reality. The plan you get lists these projects. In the order they should be delivered to improve the business and give you the maximum return. Typically we aim for 1 per Quarter. You have a lot of other things to do in the factory other than improvement.

Coaching And Mentoring For Manufacturing Managers

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