Operations Manager

Operations Manager

Are you an Operations Manager or Manufacturing Manager, used to a fast-paced, short shelf-life food manufacturing environment?

Location: Banbury, Oxfordshire
Salary:  £competitive plus benefits

Candidate:

• Do you have a proven track record, over 5 years, as an Operations Manager or Manufacturing Manager, gained in a fast paced, unionised food manufacturing environment?
• Ideally, your experience will include the manufacturing of short shelf-life products.
• Also, it is desirable that you’ll be degree qualified or equivalent.
• What is essential is that you will be able to demonstrate your achievements relating to KPI’s such as Safety, Quality, Performance, Delivery and Cost.
• A background in Continuous Improvement will also be beneficial.

If you tick these boxes, please read on……

Role:

• Reporting into the Site Manager, you will be directly responsible for a team of Area Production Managers and indirectly for over 200 other people, including Shift Managers, Production Operatives, Planners, etc.
• Your key responsibility will be for the manufacture of products – directing activities involved with the production in a safe and compliant way, and driving continuous improvement, operational excellence, product quality and cost reduction.
• Develop individuals and foster high performing autonomous teams in a culture of operational excellence and respect for others.

Company:

• My client is a food manufacturer of short shelf-life products supplying many of UK’s grocery retailers
• The business is investing in both its people and machinery.

To apply for this exciting role, please send a copy of your CV quoting ref JP/6766 to john.pollard@ silven.co. uk or for a confidential discussion, please call me on 0845 003 6872 or mobile 07792 465338.