Operations Manager
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Area | Peterborough, United Kingdom |
| Sector | Engineering |
| Start Date | |
| Job Ref | LH9573 |
- Description
Salary: £38,000 - £42k,000 doe
Essential:
Previous experience leading a medium to large production or engineering team
Minimum of 5 years’ management experience in a commercial manufacturing or engineering environment
Experience in welding, fabrication or metals production
Lean manufacturing – don’t have to be qualified
Planning and controlling
Effective communicator
Experience in ISO9001 compliant processes
Happy to manage your own administration with a high attention to detail
NEBOSH General Cert
IOSH Managing Safely
Good standard of I.T. Knowledge - Excel and Word
Full Clean Driving License
Quality conscious to the extreme. Does not accept second best.
Experienced Operations Manager required to lead and manage a production teams to ensure the smooth operation of the department, optimising production capacity, setting and meeting KPIs, reporting of production performance.
The successful Operations Manager will have a hands-on background with experience in a fast-paced engineering / manufacturing LEAN environment.
Minimising down-time, set-up time and overall efficiency are key considerations to the success of the factory.
Responsibilities
Management of daily production and operational activity.
Ensuring production objectives are achieved with regards to quality, quantity, timescale, health & safety, financial and environmental issues in line with the company’s objectives and development.
Optimise production capacity.
Setting and meeting KPIs.
Reporting of production performance.
Development of personnel through appropriate monitoring, appraisal and training.
Maintaining adequate staff records with regard to company, legal, insurance & employer’s liability
H & S requirements.
Maintaining safe working procedures required by the Company and legislation.
Effective cost control of production to budget / plan.
Lead continuous improvement and ensure compliance with the company quality management system.
Experience
The ideal candidate will have come from a fabrication, manufacturing or engineering background where, down-time, set-up time and efficiency are key considerations to the success of a multi-disciplined factory.
Hands on when required – can sort out typical production issues be they equipment, process or people related.
Exceptional attention to detail – good at problem solving and getting to the root of things.
Can trace things back to source.
Strong leader with exceptional team-work ethics and a good motivator.
Has managed large multidiscipline teams.
Has established Key Performance Indicators and managed and maintained day to day production to target with these.
Fastidious about record keeping.
Can carry out administrative work with ease (does not need support from a secretary or HR department).
Is familiar with basic HR legal requirements, knows how to carry out appraisals, disciplinary and performance improvement plans.
Meticulous with HR records.
Has the capacity to work well under pressure and can multi- task extremely well.
Unflappable and does not lose sight of critical objectives.
Can delegate well even when under pressure.
Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency or Business for this vacancy.
