Job Description:

Role: Operations Manager
Salary: £60,000 to £65,000 per annum, plus up to 10% annual bonus, PMI, Life insurance 3x annual salary, 33 days annual leave, EAP, Reward and Recognition scheme, discount platform and gym discount
Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm
Location: Commutable from Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Dudley, Lichfield and surrounding areas

Company

We are currently recruiting for a reputable and part of a global brand company who are looking for an Operations Manager to work within their fast-moving factory environment.  If you are focused resilient, confident, operational professional, then this could be the role for you.

The role is to lead, manage and continually improve production process, stores and engineering teams, built on LEAN principles, in the achievement of functional objectives that support the Plant and Company Business/Improvement Plan.   You will work closely with the engineering, service, stores and logistics teams to continuously improve site overall effectiveness ensuring utilisation of production facilities, people development/engagement and a lean culture.

Responsibilities

• To ensure the production/engineering departments comply with Group and plant Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• To ensure compliance with quality standards and requirements, analysing the results and ensuring corrective action is implemented to continuously improve the working environment.
• Effectively plan, organise and coordinate resources to meet the production and stores requirements / service delivery to achieve on time in full to the specifications within the client contracts.
• Run continuous improvement discussions/forums and quality circles to investigate and analyse all production related issues and to ensure ongoing continuous improvement.
• Develop, propose and agree functional budgets with General Manager (GM), monitoring, managing and controlling all activities in accordance with the agreed functional budget, investigating and resolving any variances to agreed targets.
• Lead, manage, control and develop all employees (including SOM, absence, performance management, grievances and Health and Safety Training) using SMART objectives during regular review and feedback meetings.
• Generate and analyse reports/KPIs making recommendations on trends, improvements and corrective actions to achieve and enhance operational excellence.

Requirements

• Excellent communicator with first hand direct people management experience.
• Experienced of working in a similar level role of Operations Manage.
• Worked in a manufacturing, production, industrial, hospitality, retail environment.
• Experience of leading, motivating and recruiting a high performance team.
• Proactive customer focussed approach to service delivery.
• Ability to plan, organise and implement through team work and delegation.
• Flexible with regards to hours worked.
• Financial knowledge covering budgeting forecasting.
• Knowledge of ERP systems.
• Commercial and supply chain experience.
• Experience Lean (Six Sigma) methodologies is desirable.

If this role sounds of interest, please apply now and send your most up to date CV to Jane at TechNichols Resourcing to be considered. Or call TechNichols Resourcing and speak with Jane for further information.

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard back within 5 working days unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.