AddressWhat if you could play a role in advancing life around the world?
Do you have team leadership experience working on a highly regulated/top tier COMAH site and working towards cGMP standards?
Do you have experience monitoring the safety, health and environmental performance of the plant and developing improvements to ensure production operations conform to current and future legislation?
Would you like to work in a stable, profitable, and growing business?
If so, join us at Orbia: where purpose comes to life.
Orbia’s Fluor and Energy Materials business is hiring a Medical Operating Plant Manager to be based at Rocksavage, Runcorn.
Purpose:
To manage and develop plant operations, operating teams, and resources to deliver SHE, quality, production, cost, and people development targets in line with the company’s SHE and business targets.
This Medical Operating manager role is responsible for managing the Z134a & Z152a purification plants, the Medical repackaging facility, all medical logistics activities and inventory management at Rocksavage.
Working Mon-Fri 8am-4pm with some flexibility expected.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Prepare, communicate, and control production plans on a short- and medium-term basis to meet business and maintenance requirements, and control fixed and variable costs.
- Monitor the safety, health and environmental performance of the plant and develop improvements to ensure production operations conform to current and future legislation.
- Manage the shift (and day) teams’ competence, performance, attendance and behavior to ensure they meet company standards.
- Work with the site production manager in the development and implementation of personal improvement plans for the medical process teams & develop their skills, knowledge & competencies in line with agreed targets set at the personal review time.
- Assist in the development & implementation of improvement plans to reduce plant fixed & variable costs and to optimize performance in line with the business needs.
- Monitor and coach/supervise teams regularly and troubleshoot opportunities to improve safety, production operations, to reduce costs, improve quality and to support planned changes/improvements.
- Co-ordinate the process planning of shutdowns and maintenance activities to ensure that the necessary resources are obtained, and the plan is developed and executed within agreed timescales.
Qualification and Experience:
- Minimum: HNC/D or NVQ Level 5
- Leadership & Management qualification e.g. ILM Level 4, Team Leader, Supervisor Apprenticeship Standard (including CMI L3 Diploma in Management) or similar management qualification.
- NEBOSH or IOSH qualifications would be desirable.
- Lean/6σ and Continuous Improvement would be desirable.
- Experience of working and ideally supervision of unionised workforce on continuous shift patterns preferably on a Top Tier COMAH site.
- Experience of controlling and monitoring processes and unit operations using control systems e.g. DCS, PLC.
- Experience of using and applying safe systems of work.
- Experience in handling, storage and transportation of chemicals including utilities (ideally those stored, handled, used, and produced on site).
- Experience in using IT systems (ideally those used on site and in role e.g. SAP, Microsoft Office, Aspen PIMS etc.).
- Experience of planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance in terms of work planning and safe implementation.
- Excellent communication skills, verbal, written and electronic.
- Influencing skills and stakeholder management.
- Business acumen with ability to provide strategic thinking and a keen focus and awareness of good safety and quality practices.
If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the posting, we encourage you to apply and join our talent network. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
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About Koura, Orbia’s Fluor and Energy Materials business:
Orbia’s Fluor and Energy Materials business is a global leader in the development, manufacture, and supply of fluoroproducts that play a fundamental role in enhancing everyday lives and shortening the path to a sustainable, circular economy.
Backed by over 35 years of experience, the company’s products are used in a vast range of applications including electric vehicles and energy storage, urban and rural infrastructure, indoor climate management, food and medicine refrigeration, and even in treating respiratory conditions through the development of healthy and innovative low-GWP propellants for metered-dose inhalers.
The Fluorinated solutions business has 1,600 employees and 13 manufacturing facilities worldwide, serving 60 countries through a global sales and distribution network.
About Orbia:
Orbia is a global company driven by the purpose to advance life around the world. Across the Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura) sectors, our six leading businesses and team of over 23,000 is thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges that impact people and planet. From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there is an opportunity to make life better. Wherever you work across our 50 countries of operations, you’ll be able to bring your skills, talents, and perspectives to helping create a better company and a better world. Join us at Orbia: where purpose comes to life.
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