Site Packaging Leader
- Operational Excellence: Take a lead role in delivering improvement, embedding working practices that deliver sustainable results – creating pride in your workplace!
- Develop a behavioural safety culture and promotion of a safe working environment – complying with our health and safety policies
- Ensuring the team strictly adheres to all standards, including food safety, hygiene & BRC compliance whilst driving continuous improvement in customer satisfaction, quality and environmental departmental performance through problem solving techniques
- Identify & prepare capital projects for Executive approval that deliver operational efficiencies and product profitability
- Recruit, lead and motivate – developing a flexible, multi skilled team
- Effective performance management of all direct reports (5), maintaining team engagement – setting a clear development strategy that’s driven through effective deployment
- Effectively communicate strategic plans, regular business performance updates & local KPI performance to teams
- Establish and maintain good working relationships with the engineering resource to ensure maintenance plans are met – alongside engaging with people at the shop floor through safety & Gemba walks
- Developing clear processes for managing material/ non material losses – proposing innovative ways to find sustainable solutions
- Brewing diploma is desirable but not a necessity
- Demonstrable experience within a blue chip food manufacturing/ FMCG company
- Packaging and technical brewing knowledge is desirable
- Experience in using Lean tools and continuous improvement techniques and to deliver sustainable improvements
- Knowledge of key standards in Quality, Health & Safety and environmental is desirable
- Previous experience as a people manager would be beneficial
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to network positively, including internal stakeholders and colleagues
- Ability to work to a tight timescale, ensuring production targets are met
- Proven skills in budgetary control – focusing on annual budgets and delivering on cost saving initiatives
- Strong experience in a unionised background, dealing with complex Employee Relations environments