Operations Manager

We’re looking for an experienced Operations Manager to work for our client, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer. You would play a key role responsible for the performance, team management, continuous improvement and health and safety at the company’s Macduff site in Aberdeenshire. The role will suit a skilled leader with experience managing teams, building team capability and motivating people to bring their best every day, ideally within a fast-paced and high-volume food manufacturing environment. Offering an attractive salary dependent on experience plus annual bonus incentive, good company pension scheme, personal private healthcare, 3 x basic salary life assurance plus more.

Please note: This is a full-time permanent role, working hours Monday to Thursday: 8.30am

• 5pm, Friday: 8.30am
• 4pm. — The Role As Operations Manager you would be the most senior person at the Macduff site, with full day to day P&L accountability. You have 6 direct reports (engineering, production. warehouse, quality, and administration) overall leading a team of 20 people. Key duties and responsibilities will include…
• Leading the site team, maximising engagement, creating a high performing team through development and coaching
• Driving Health & Safety principles across the site ensuring these are adhered to at all times
• Full accountability for the management of agreed budgets, including engineering projects
• Managing, controlling and monitoring “cost per case” against KPIs, budgets and forecasts
• Ensuring staffing levels are optimised and planned; considering demand and cost per case
• Implementing and maintaining a continuous improvement culture across the site to drive OEE performance and yield
• Developing training and coaching programmes, ensuring effective succession plans are developed —

The Candidate The Operations Manager role will suit an adaptable, reliable and self-motived individual with significant experience supervising staff in busy manufacturing settings, ideally food / drink. You may be an experienced Factory Manager or Site Manager looking for a new challenge in an exciting fast paced FMCG company, or you could be an Operations or Production Manager in a larger site looking for that stepping stone to a larger General Manager role in the future. In addition you must be able to demonstrate…

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes
• Good knowledge of HACCP, understanding of HSE responsibilities linked with leading in a food production setting
• Able to set targets and manage performance to achieve results
• Strong attention to detail, meticulous approach to completing tasks, good multi-tasking skills
• Strong IT skills; Outlook, Word, Excel, SAP etc, plus good typing skills — The Company The world’s largest independent drinks manufacturer, producing 12 billion litres from 70 manufacturing plants in 12 countries. The UK business unit has 6 manufacturing plants with 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl.
• Interested? If you think you’re right for this Operations Manager role, then click the ‘Apply Now’ button, send us your CV and we’ll consider you for the first round of interviews. IND3 Coburg Banks Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy