Thrive Oldham are recruiting an Operations Manager for our well established client in the Merthyr South Wales area.

Working as part of the Senior Leadership team the Operations Manager will assume overall responsibility for Production, Planning, Quality, Maintenance, warehouse/Logistics and Facilities. Leading teams to ensure the health & safety of all associates is of the highest priority whilst maintaining high standards of housekeeping & organisation, achievement of production plans to match / exceed the customers' expectations.

The role is responsible for the management & reporting of departmental KPI's and plans for

improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Reduction all internal risks & adherence to all Health & Safety
• Promoting high standards of product quality whilst maintaining excellent standards of housekeeping throughout the factory.
• Ensuring all production targets and plans are achieved in line with the
• Maintain control on labour costs including overtime in line with the
• Manages the production supervision & associates in day-to-day manufacturing activities ensuring all KPI targets are met or exceeded.
• Address the labour and quality concerns in a timely manner by managing the output of the workforce.
• Implementing long term growth plans and develop plans to achieve production
• Ensure a "right first time" approach is taken with the quality
• Plan resources & schedule workloads in line with customer
• Manages & controls all processes / equipment to ensure high levels of productivity & actively identifies any potential bottlenecks & provides plans to elevate them.
• Tight control of timekeeping &
• Attending internal and customer meetings to ensure objectives are
• Communicate to all departments and encourages feedback from all
• Promote product and customer awareness among production staff in line with a methodology of continuous improvement.
• Support the efforts of the business management teams to successfully implement business policies, standards and goals.
• Provides motivation, support, and guidance to all
• Actively promotes and documents the training & development of all
• Ensure all manufacturing inhouse flexibility charts are relevant & up to

Key Performance Indicators (KPI's):

• Reportable incidents -
• Housekeeping standards throughout
• Achievement of the agreed monthly plan /
• Customer OTD %.
• Production loading &
• Labour cost /

• Scrap & internal reject
• Moral & interaction with shopfloor
• continuous Improvement

Skills & Experience

• A minimum of 5 years in a similar operations role within a manufacturing environment is essential for this role.
• Educated to a degree or HNC within a business operations management or a related
• Trained in Continuous Improvement Techniques such as Six Sigma or LEAN
• Excellent leadership and management skills in a fast paced and changing
• Demonstrated experience solving tactical operational issues in conjunction with strategic longer term topics.
• Hands on, wanting to be visible and engaging with all team members across all
• You must be able to inspire and coach a high performing
• Detailed, organised, methodical and calm under
• Knowledge of maintenance and plant management

Salary Competitive TBD

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