Operations Manager - Printed Folded Cartons - East Midlands - £50-60k basic + benefits

Job Title: Operations Manager - Printed Folded Cartons

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis that might interest you.

Key Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Manufacturing Operations leadership experience, preferably 7yrs+.
• Ability to build high performing and collaborative teams.
• Technical and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate process improvement teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge and leadership of operations, service, quality, environmental and safety systems.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to motivate people.
• A proactive leader and team player with a drive to succeed.
• A proven track record in a similar management role.
• Able to demonstrate previous experience of driving continuous improvement projects through a working knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma techniques such as SMED, 5S, Kaizen and TPM amongst others.
• First class communication skills.
• Able to work in a fast paced environment - FMCG preferred.
• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen.
• Computer literate, able to operate Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook/Email.
• Thorough understanding of a process-driven production environment.
• Proven experience working together with employee representatives and Unions.

Interested candidates should send their CV along with a paragraph indicating which of the above qualifications you possess to .

We ask that you only apply for any of our vacancies if you are resident in the UK and have recently worked in the print, packaging or paper sectors.

We prefer CVs in MS Word format (.doc or .docx).