Operations Director

Multi-site Leadership role at a growing, well-established manufacturing company.

About Our Client

Our client is a well-established engineering and manufacturing company.

Job Description

Reporting to the Board, the purpose of this role is to execute business and operations strategies, with the primary focus on operational management, engineering, and quality systems. Driving and optimizing all processes to ensure consistently high levels of Safety, Quality, Delivery, Productivity & People Engagement, implementing structures and systems to enable, maintain, and deliver the business plan in the Ops function.

The multi-site operations director will oversee all daily responsibility of production, engineering, and quality, driving a right-first-time high-quality culture, generating a culture of high performance through effective relationships and collaboration/alignment across all functions, ensuring accountability at all levels.

• Provide day-to-day strategic leadership for Operations and direction to all functional areas supporting the successful operation of the business
• Optimize operational performance, including efficiency & productivity
• Drive a coordinated and engaged team culture in a unionized environment
• Ensure compliance to the quality management system
• Implement/sustain visible work centre targets/metrics for business performance monitoring
• Establishing systems and mechanisms to support execution of the production plan including appropriate escalation mechanisms
• Work closely with the leadership team to ensure the organizational structure, capacity, and resources are appropriate to meet the business demands and anticipate the current/future states of the business
• Implement and embed OPEX lean culture and practices
• Support the Commercial and Customer Service team in their mission for strong collaborative customer relationships through knowledge, commitment, consistent results
• Support new product introduction, capital expenditure planning, people development, and organizational capacity planning to deliver NPI and handle volume changes
• Plan and successfully deliver against a robust budget and business plan to include cost management and the achievement of revenue & profit targets
• Ensure that all employees understand, support, and demonstrate the cultural values, norms, and standards that govern the successful operations and business growth

The Successful Applicant

• Production and Engineering experience is essential at multi-site leadership level in industrial manufacturing.
• An industrial manufacturing background is essential, such as mechanical component assembly, metal fabrication, welding, machining, precision engineering, etc.
• Please apply only if you tick the above two boxes, as well as having been in permanent work in recent years. You must also live locally or have ties to the area in order to be considered.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Engineering, or related field of study or equivalent is preferred
• Proven track record of successfully managing operations to achieve bottom-line profitability through sustainable operational excellence to include lean manufacturing, process management, systems maximization, and the development of a strong team is essential
• Proven leadership ability
• Experienced in shaping, embedding, and coaching a team with clear accountabilities in a results-oriented environment
• Experienced in building and managing customer relationships in an industry where competition is high, and results are achieved through operational and quality excellence
• Engineering knowledge desirable but not essential - we want to talk to people from environments such as fabrication, welding, assembly, machining, mechanical engineering, and metal component production
• Formal management and/or business qualification at level 5 upwards or equivalent desirable but not essential
• Good working knowledge of SIGMA 6 and Lean required

What's on Offer

£120,000 plus bonus, car/car allowance, and benefits (all negotiable for the right candidate)