We are seeking a dedicated Unit Manager at Penderyn to lead and manage our quarry operational unit, delivering outstanding results while maintaining a focus on safety, environmental standards, cost efficiency, quality, and service objectives. If you're driven by continuous improvement and thrive in a dynamic environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:- Operational Leadership: Manage quarry operational unit and oversee several closed sites, ensuring all operations are safe, compliant, and efficient.
- Team Management: Lead and inspire a team of 10 employees, in addition to coordinating with contractors, fostering a positive and high-performing culture.
- Production Oversight: Oversee the production of approximately 500,000 tonnes of limestone annually, meeting and exceeding set targets.
- Budget and Financial Management: Control the annual budget, ensuring cost efficiency, and manage capital expenditure projects from inception to completion.
- Performance Enhancement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiencies and elevate existing performance levels.
- Adaptability: Respond effectively to changing business requirements, managing any adjustments to the scope of the unit and sites included.
Key Requirements:- Proven experience in quarry operational management, ideally in the aggregates, mining, or heavy industrial sectors.
- Demonstrable experience in leading and managing teams to achieve performance targets.
- Strong financial acumen, with experience in budget control and managing capital projects.
- Commitment to maintaining high standards of safety, environmental compliance, and quality.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities to work effectively with employees, contractors, and stakeholders.
Education/Qualification
- Higher level either vocational or educational
- NVQ/QCF Level 5/7 in SHE quarry operations
What's on Offer:
Salary £55,000 - £60.000 plus Bonus
Location Aberdare Penderyn
Hours 40
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Work Life Balance: 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) Generous Pension Schemes / Life Assurance
Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme (EAP Employee Benefits portal including Gym discount
* Employer of choice: Armed Forces Covenant (Silver) / Disability Confident Committed / 5% Club (Platinum) / Mates in Mind / Clear Assured (Foundation) / The Mineral Products and Qualification Council (MPQC) / STEM Ambassador
* Compensation Package: Bonus incentives / Generous Pension Schemes / Life Assurance
* Work Life Balance: 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) / Agile working / Flexible working / Holiday purchase / Sabbatical
* Family Friendly: Enhanced policies such as Maternity / Paternity / Parental Leave / Neonatal / Adoption/IVF/Menopause
* Social Value: paid Volunteering Day every year / Communities (LGBTQ+, Network of Woman, Woman in Science and Engineering (STEM), Armed Forces)
