General Manger Operations

Salary: £60,000 – £72,000 per year

Ref no: PR/

Job title: General Manger Operations

Role: Full time, permanent role

Location: Tamworth, Staffs

Salary: £60,000 – £72,000 depending on experience brought to the role, (pension scheme membership and 25 days holiday)

Our client is a mechanical control Cable manufacturer (Bonnet/Trunk release, Brake and Clutch cables, etc, etc) with its roots in India and now with operations around the world. 

At the Tamworth base is a product engineering department, a warehouse, a repacking and quality hub via which Indian manufactured cable assemblies are supplied to BMW and VW amongst others both in UK and EU.

The Vacancy – General Manger Operations

Based in Tamworth the challenging role encompasses many functions suitable for an experienced professional who can appreciate the complex dynamics of an automotive quality supply chain.

The main facets include managing:

• A logistics office that must match despatches exactly in line with customer EDI schedules, creating ASNs and export documentation within an Oracle environment. Assemblies MUST arrive to the customers line side storage per the customers schedules.
• A re-packing team needing clear weekly plans and daily updates on changes and priorities.
• Ensuring sufficient returnable containers are present on site while minimising rental costs.
• The Planning and approval of sea containers from India, monitoring progress of multiple vessels to maintain optimum safety stocks and minimising airfreights.
• A warehouse holding safety stock, empty containers, quarantined parts and after-market stock.
• A despatch area dealing with multiple arrivals and despatches daily.
• The Quality team who will be dealing with customer concerns and internal rejects.
• Interfacing with demanding customers on any or all of the above.
• Health and Safety of all 40 employees on site.

Reporting to the Managing Director who is also based in Tamworth and is responsible for operations in Europe and also for the Tech/Product Engineering Centre located at the Tamworth site.

Key Skills

• Working knowledge of Oracle BOS or similar.
• Familiarity with automotive supply chain norms and practices.
• Ability to grasp and give guidance on complex quality issues to minimise cost or reputational impact. Producing 8Ds using root cause analysis tools.
• Able to guide team through annual IATF16949 audits.
• Empathy with other cultures and seeing both our Indian manufacturing plant and UK warehouse as one team.
• Problem solving and system improvement aptitude.

• Positive and cheerful disposition in the face of unresolvable issues.

Additional information

Travel to UK/EU customers and to India is encouraged as part of the essential familiarisation.

Please note.

This position has been advertised recently and some applicants are still under consideration.

 A subsequent application will therefore not be necessary.