The Company

Our client is a market leading FMCG manufacturer. Due to restructure, they are now looking to recruit and Production Operations Manager.

The Role

Will be working a permanent day shift overseeing around 100 staff.
You will manage the departmental process to meet all appropriate performance metrics including HS&E, Quality, Cost and Delivery, ensuring the production of quality product to the design specification.
Managing the overall department performance in line with company targets.
Responsibility for a departmental headcount of over 100 employees, working a mix of shift patterns.
Includes four direct report Shift Leaders.
Identify and eliminate waste within area of responsibility together with direct report and supporting departments.
Lead and facilitate improvement projects. Managing through teamwork and continuous improvement methodology.
Provide cross functional support to other production areas.
Main point of contact for supporting departments to review and develop resolutions as well as prioritising planned work activity.
Lead departmental performance reviews and facilitate any necessary actions.
Co-ordinate the Shift Leaders and Planning Dept on schedule adherence and capacity requirements.
Manage and maintain high levels of discipline and consistency.
Coach and develop subordinates via regular 1 to 1 activity to achieve set objectives.
Evaluate training and development plans for dept team.
Engage with union representatives and support on personnel issues to ensure localised concerns or disputes are resolved before formal escalation.
Identify capital improvement opportunities and provide justification report.

The Person

Must have experience in a similar role within manufacturing or engineering.
A structured thinker, completer/finisher with strong motivational, influencing and interpersonal skills and high degree of resilience.
Extensive leadership knowledge and experience, able to demonstrate sound hands-on operational experience of successfully managing people within a manufacturing environment.
Excellent continuous improvement experience, able to manage change and improvements in a fast-developing continuous improvement culture environment.
The ability to manage teams, projects, priorities and able to implement and sustain continuous improvement values.
Logical problem solver with excellent fault-finding abilities.

The Benefits