Factory Manager

Factory Manager

Reference: JUN

Expiry date: 15:05, Thu, 2nd Jul 2026

Location: Shearstone, Midsomer Norton, England

This is a high profile role within the UK Brick industry and the successful applicant will be responsible for the delivery of an annual output of over 41 million bricks manufactured to the highest possible quality standards and produced at the lowest possible cost. This is a key time in the Factory's development as we plan investments to improve the factory's efficiency and enhance its competitiveness within our markets.

As such we are looking for an inspirational leader to manage, motivate and develop our factory manufacturing team where continuous improvement is at the heart of all we do. The successful applicant will be an exceptional communicator, commercially astute and a customer champion, able to deliver our production targets against the highest health and safety, quality, environmental and cost expectations. The safety of our people is of the utmost importance and working safely is the only way we operate.

Specific responsibilities include:

• People management and motivation to create a flexible, effective and multi skilled workforce across all disciplines
• Preparing and managing the Factory's annual budget ensuring that all planned spend is correctly costed and cash flow managed in accordance with the Company's fiscal policies
• Ensuring that the Factory 5-year plan is continually updated and delivered
• Rigorous application of the Ibstock Manufacturing System to deliver continuous improvement across all of factory operations and exceed all KPI's
• Working with the factory team to identify, submit and then implement suitable capital improvement projects to deliver efficiency or safety improvements
• Working collaboratively across all Ibstock Brick support functions to utilise specialist support to deliver key projects
• Developing new products that will ensure we are at the forefront of market trends and comply with all current and future environmental and sustainability developments
• Implementing our Sustainability Roadmap and driving sustainable performance at site level.

We aspire to operate to world class standards and therefore a fully comprehensive training plan will be implemented to address any necessary skills development to ensure you are as effective as possible in this role.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• Strong engineering knowledge
• Excellent leadership and coaching skills
• Proven ability to develop an experienced manufacturing team to increase efficiency across the factory whilst surpassing customer expectations
• The ability to analyse and interpret data to identify key trends and opportunities to increase profitability
• Demonstrable application of problem solving tools and techniques to deliver efficiency improvement
• Able to implement and drive performance improvement using lean tools, KPIs and visual management
• An in-depth knowledge of current Health and Safety, Environmental and Employment Laws and best practice application of these within a manufacturing environment

Desirable Skills/Qualifications:

• Full time, permanent role
• Digicare+ Provided by Aviva
• 10% matched pension, administered by Legal and General
• 3x life insurance
• Share Save scheme eligibility
• Full access to Employee Assistance programme for self and family members
• Access to high street retail discounts platform - with access to discounts at Tesco, Asda, etc
• Personal development and career progression opportunities

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Ibstock Plc are committed and passionate about building a diverse environment. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.