Operations Manager

An exciting opportunity to join a one of the UK’s leading agricultural business as an operations Manager. The business and group have over 150 years’ experience within Food, Fuel and Agriculture and due to continued growth they’re now looking to expand their team.

Main Duties and responsibilities

• Manage and direct operational activities to ensure orders are made and dispatched on time in full (OTIF).

• Ensure compliance with transport laws and regulations - perform shift handovers and driver de briefs.

• Assess key performance indicators (KPI’s), and take appropriate actions, to ensure schedule, cost, safety and quality goals are met.

• Maintain a robust stock management process and month end counts.

• Evaluate operational performance, by completing OEE, Shift handover meetings, Engineering Projects, and 1:1’s.

• Ensure required documentation (compliance, Environmental, Safety and financial) are completed and transacted correctly.

• Understand company and site-specific policies, procedures, and other documentation. Actively train to all staff to ensure consistency across the site.

• Provide leadership and commitment in support of continuing improvements in quality, productivity, and delivery performance.

• Coordinate resource to ensure holidays are covered and that the overtime budget is controlled.

• Effectively schedule and deliver Planned Maintenance for the mill and vehicle fleet.

• Develop and implement SWPs and SOP’s as part of the continuous site and people development.

• Review complaints to understand the root cause and shard learnings.

• Maintain collaborative cross functional relationship - Daily Operations and transport call.

• Ensure that all UFAS, environmental, H&S and NWF site compliance standards are always maintained and adhered to. Assisting with audits and corrective actions.

Personal Profile:

• Experience as a Production/Operations manager within food or agriculture

• Experience leading and inspiring teams to achieve production schedules

• A background in motivating personal to create a high-performance culture

• A proven background within achieving H&S/Compliance audit scores

• Budget management

• Ability to train and coach team members.

Job Reference: LI41585SJB

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