Head of Operations

Head of Operations, Grimsby, Food Manufacturing

Do you have the four ingredients of success?

• Make things happen with agility and pace
• Seek out and thrive on a challenge
• The desire to lead in the food industry
• Entrepreneurial spirit

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Head of Operations to join a leading food manufacturer based in Grimsby. This site is currently turning over £80 million with the aim to getting over the £100 million mark shortly. With a lucrative £45 million M&S contract secured we need someone with the leadership skills to take this site onwards and upwards through a period of tremendous growth and transformation.

The Company is now a prominently chilled ( 60% chilled 40% frozen ) production factory, with its own cold storage of 3,500 pallets, new upgraded production lines along with £5million site investment, now is certainly an exciting time to join

Interested?

As part of the SMT you will report into the Site General Manager. Effectively manage the day-to-day Factory operations & ensure all manufacturing performance KPIs are achieved in line with Company procedures. On a day to day basis the Head of Operations will be expected to deal with the fulfilment of customer orders & individual line performance whilst providing management expertise to 4 Production Managers, as well as:

• Providing direction and support to the Production Managers, managing and facilitating their performance and development and ensuring departmental structure and skills are developed to meet changing requirements
• Having responsibility for all aspects of food safety and quality in the department ensuring QMS is implemented and effective audit procedures are established with the correct level of training given
• Deriving an advance labour plan for the department and review on a weekly basis
• Controlling labour and materials at cost level and account for any anomalies
• Delivering customer service levels at agreed target levels and continuously identify areas for improvement.

Salary: £Competitive + Benefits

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*Due to the amount of applications received, only those who our client wishes to progress will be contacted. If you have not received correspondence within 21 days then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Thank you for reading this advertisement.

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