Operations Manager

We are currently seeking an Operations Manager to join our plant in Chesterfield. The Operations Manager will be responsible for building, leading, and developing the site operations teams, including Production, Technical Process, and Maintenance. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the effective management of the Production, Technical, and Maintenance departments while consistently meeting customer requirements.

The Operations Manager will oversee day-to-day site activities, ensuring compliance with environmental, health and safety, quality, production, technical, and maintenance standards and procedures. Leading by example, the successful candidate will drive a culture of continuous improvement, challenge the status quo, promote best practice, and deliver world-class operational performance. They will coach and develop multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring alignment with both short-term operational goals and the site's longer-term strategic objectives.

Working closely with the wider leadership team, the Operations Manager will play a key role in driving operational excellence and supporting the ongoing success and growth of the Chesterfield site.

This is a permanent position, working Monday to Friday.

• Engineering/Manufacturing minimum degree qualification and/ or experience.
• Minimum 5 + Years experience working as a Production/ Engineering Manager in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience of implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies, including waste reduction, workflow optimisation, and 6S workplace organisation.
• Proven record of accomplishment in achieving, sustaining, and improving operational KPI’s through root cause analysis and follow through actions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholder at all levels of the organisation. Thus, building employee engagement and culture.
• Strong ability to manage production, technical and maintenance operations effectively while ensuring customer requirements, quality standards, and business objectives are consistently achieved.
• Ability to manage workplace challenges, resolve employee relations issues, and make timely operational decisions.
• Collaborative and proactive team player with a commitment to supporting organisational goals and driving operational excellence.
• Identify, develop and mentor high-potential employees to build leadership capability, support succession planning and prepare talent for future roles.
• Promote a fact-based, analytical approach to decision-making in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating resourcefulness, resilience and a consistently high level of performance.
• Experience in Microsoft Office, SAP, or other ERP systems.
• Proven multitasking ability with systematic approach.

• Positively reinforce company leadership values and goals to all employees on an ongoing basis.
• Key part of the role is challenging current practices and KPI performance. Daily implement improvements to our standard operations; so that those standards improve daily.
  • Any appropriate practices that are not standardised – ensure they are proceduralised to improve our future operations / performance.
• Overall management of appropriate KPIs on site to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Responsible for technical processing, foam and chemical activities and their impact on quality, efficiency, and throughput.
  • Develop line trials to improve performance.
  • Stock management.
• Support development of maintenance best practices.
  • Develop PPM TPM CBM and RCM.
  • Excellent problem solving, reliability and Root cause analysis.
  • Learn systems & identify sustainable process improvements.
• Developing and Improving site operations strategies, and…