Operations Manager

Salary: £72,000 – £78,000 per year

Andy File Associates Limited are working as a Recruitment Agency on behalf of our client with regards to this permanent position.

Operations Manager 

Reporting to – Operations Director 

Location – Wakefield and Darton

Salary – £72,000 – £78,000dependent on experience

Benefits – various to include 33 days holiday inc stats

The Role

The primary responsibilities of the Operations Manager are: 

• Lead, organise and run operations across the entire Wakefield and Darton sites

• Own, lead and improve across a balance scorecard of set KPI’s, including H&S/Quality/People/Productivity 

• Ensure that all personnel within your control are complying with the organisations product compliance obligations, policies, processes and procedures 

• Develop a strong positive culture instilling continuous improvement across the site 

• Lead the site operations and engineering team, develop and build the team putting in place a robust succession plan 

• Develop and implement a best practice operations strategy including an automation plan for the site

Key Responsibilities

• Instil a strong positive culture of H&S across the site

• Ensure that all personnel within your control are complying with the organisations product compliance obligations, policies, processes and procedures 

• Integrate product compliance obligations into existing business practises and procedures in their area of responsibility and encouraging a compliance culture 

• Encourage their personnel to raise product compliance concerns

• Cooperate with and support the compliance management system and encouraging personnel to do the same 

• Develop personnel awareness of product compliance obligations 

• Manage and lead all operational activities including on time in full, quality, stock levels, cost control and accuracy of inventory

• Develop and drive a long term and strategic plan for operations 

• Lead the identification, development and implementation of an automation strategy for the site 

• Ownership for the entire Wakefield and Darton site facilities

• Develop and implement a best-in-class manufacturing strategy with an overall plan to ensure the Wakefield and Darton operational site is world class

• Create a balanced scorecard against a set of KPI’s and continually look to improve against them

• Ensure headcount is balanced, correctly planned and optimised to maintain correct output and stock levels

• Ensure the entire operations team are trained and compliant for all work practices

• Work alongside the Quality and Product management teams to improve quality and optimise manufacturing costs

• P&L and budgetary control of the entire site-wide operations

• Continually review and implement ways to reduce operational costs year on year

• Along with P&L responsibility, manage all site-wide CAPEX

• Work closely with all other members of the senior team 

• Put in a place a robust communication plan and implement

• Act as an exemplary role model always

• Although the role is based in Wakefield, the successful candidate will be expected to travel to other sites, customers, suppliers etc.

• Any other duties requested by their line manager

Person Specification

Essential

• Min Degree qualified in an engineering/business/science discipline or qualified by experience 

& Knowledge

• Extensive experience in a production environment with a proven successful track record

• Experience in automation implementation 

• Experience of ERP/MRP software

• Excellent communicator at all levels

• Understand a production planning process

Abilities & Skills

• Personable and ability to liaise with production operatives to senior management

• Ability to multi-task

• Can-do attitude and action orientated

Desirable

• Higher level qualification in process / engineering / business

• Lean qualification – for example six-sigma

• Experience in a steel fabrication production related environment would be preferable

• Experience in pressure testing 

• Experience in site relocation

Benefits

• Bonus 10% of your salary based on business achieving annual profit targets
• Holiday entitlement is 33 days per year including statutory days
• Pension – The company will contribute an amount equivalent to 5% of your basic salary per month. Employee will be required to make a monthly contribution of the equivalent of 4% of your basic salary
• Employee Assistant Programme
• Smart Health – This service provides 24/7, 365 days a year, GP services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Eyecare Package
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Life Assurance – four times your basic gross salary will be payable
• Discounted Insurance on home, car, and holiday insurance
• Long Service Awards
• Health and wellbeing initiatives.
• The KEEP (Our Discount Platform) – You will have access to hundreds of retail discounts