Operations Director

Location: Eastbourne

Salary: Circa £100k  

This is a great opportunity to join a leading manufacturing business as the MD’s right hand. The company produce packing for a wide range of industries and they are now looking for an Operations Director to join their team.

Operations Director – Overview:

You will be acting as the Managing Director’s 2nd in command.  With a strong, strategic focus on Manufacturing Processes, you will drive forward the manufacturing out-put whilst also having a hands-on and engaging approach. 

Operations Director – Responsibility

• Ensure company H & S policy is adhered to at all times by all team members
• Ensure company environmental policy is adhered to at all times
• Lead the production department lean transformation using appropriate lean tools and methods
• Work to foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Assume ownership of all improvement activities including prioritising, scheduling and allocation of resources and ensure improvement activity is aligned with commercial objectives
• Lead /write content for daily stand up meeting
• Identify gaps in skills/knowledge and schedule appropriate training
• Ensure KPI targets are met
• Work closely with Sales and Ops teams to ensure good communication maintained internally and externally
• Defects to be recorded as soon as they are identified
• Take ownership of SOP writing programme
• Complete audit tasks within set times
• Ensure stock levels are accurate at all times (oversight only)
• Arrange team building/social events as required
• Lead and motivate production team members
• Conduct scheduled performance reviews with team members
• Ensure the production team deliver on the London Stone brand promise and all team members work in accordance with the company’s values
• Manage recruitment
• Write/review risk assessments for new equipment/machinery purchases or changes to process
• Manage disciplinary issues and conflict resolution
• Create reports as necessary to deliver the commercial goals of the department
• Attend weekly customer fulfilment meeting and report to BOD as necessary

Operations Director - job requirements:

The ideal candidate must come from the manufacturing industry as an Operations Director. You will also have the following skills, qualifications, and experience:

Ideally hold a relevant qualification such as MBA, BEng or CEng (qualification is not essential and past work experience will be considered)

• Strong understanding of Manufacturing Processes.
• Ideally have come from a fast paced or packing manufacturing background
• Ideally hold a LEAN and/or SixSigma Qualification  
• Be engaging and personable, able to communicate effectively at both board level and shop floor level.

For more information please call Paul Gorton on (phone number removed).

LEAN Engineering Recruitment Ltd are acting as a 3rd party on behalf of our client.  All applications will be held on our database for current and future positions. 

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard from LER within 10 working days then your application has been unsuccessful but please feel free to contact us for an update.