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Operations DirectorBromsgroveSalary £60,000-70,000 salary guidelineBenefits include £10,000 car or car allowance, 5% employer pension contribution and performance bonus usually worth £4,000-£5,000.Operations Director job vacancy at a 50 headcount business with operations including logistics, warehouse, and some production manufacturing. Operations Director responsibilities:·Planning operations delivery on a daily, weekly and monthly basis meet customer expectations efficiently. The Operations Director’s remit covers warehousing, logistics and production, and all of the related activities such as H&S, equipment, efficient layout and overheads.·People management responsibilities include skills development, health and safety, disciplinaries, praise and recognition, staffing levels, and embedding good practice and new methods.·The Operations Director will be part of the site leadership team and have responsibility for strategic planning around facilities, people, systems, equipment investment and supporting growth opportunities.·Communication and influencing non-direct reportees will also be important. For example, setting up and embedding commonly understood customer SLA’s with the sales team. These SLA’s should be based on realistic operations capability and also deliver customer excellence. ·Salary £60,000-70,000 salary guideline.·Benefits include £10,000 car or car allowance, 5% employer pension contribution and performance bonus usually worth £4,000-£5,000.·Operations Director will be part of the Senior Leadership Team.·Privately owned, well established business with an eye to sustainable growth.·Friendly team, good levels of staff motivation, Nice facility which has seen good investment to staff facilities and equipment.Skills and Experience:·Operations Director people management skills suited to manufacturing, warehouse or similar.·The ability and drive to organise day-to-day and week-to-week operational activities, striking a balance between repeatable drum-beat processes as well as enabling staff anticipate and overcome the unexpected.·Remain in-touch with the day to day with being drawn into the low level activity. ·Take demonstrable pride in delivering an operations function which is reliable, efficient and cost effective. Measurables include overheads and customer satisfaction.·Be a team player in the management team, supporting the wider business goals.Negotiable package for the right person, Salary £60,000-70,000 salary guideline. Benefits include £10,000 car or car allowance, 5% employer pension contribution and performance bonus usually worth £4,000-£5,000.This job is commutable from Redditch, Birmingham, Worcester, Bromsgrove, Longbridge, Kidderminster.Reference: IY.75SCM1
Read moreOperations DirectorWater industry Operations Director jobs role ; water / utilities industryBristol/Swindon region but flexible with some hybridYou must have experience in the water industry / water treatment industryIdeally you will be a Chartered Engineer (or similar level)Process industries ; utilities, power, water, pharma. Ideally water industry experience – the company supplies large water treatment systems to the likes of Severn Trent, Thames Water, Anglian Water etc.Operations Director jobs role ; are you seeking Ops director jobs, technical director jobs, Asset Director jobs, Director of engineering jobs or director of operations jobs? Are you wanting to work for a business who supply market leading large capital equipment – electro-mechanical plant into the process industries ; utilities, power, water, pharma.Are you an Operations manager, Engineering Manager or Technical manager seeking that chance to step up to become an Operations Director? Alternatively are you a degree educated mechanical engineer / chartered engineer who wants to now become a director of Operations?Working Environment, Opportunities and Rewards:As a business the company have a turnover of £20m. with excellent growth potentialThis role has been created to replace the current Operations Director / Engineering Director / technical Director who is set to retire; having served 20+ years – the business has a very loyal, professional and committed teamThe culture is one of passion, enthusiasm and an eagerness to learn & improve (Investors in People Gold – coaching, developing and empowering their employees is a key theme)Excellent starting salary + fully expensed car + health insurance + bonus.This Water industry Operations Director jobs role will suit:Some experience with large capital projects / capital equipment / high value large mechanical equipment (this is NOT manufacturing small components)Ideally experience of the UK water industry – aware of the AMP (asset management plan) cycle. However we are flexible if you have similar capital equipment experience into wider utilities / process industriesStrong project management skillsIdeally a chartered engineer – ideally mechanical – or similarStrong mentoring and coaching ability – working with the engineering team to improve their performance and skill levelSomeone who meets our core values of humility, integrity and loyaltyThis Operations Director jobs role / Engineering Director appointment is commutable from Bristol, Chippenham, Swindon, Bath, Cirencester, Gloucester, Cheltenham or areas within striking distance of Wiltshire
Read moreGeneral ManagerSolihull West MidlandsSector: Engineering Manufacturing OperationsNegotiable package. Guideline £80,000-85,000.General Manager job vacancy suited to an operations and engineering based person that has been working at senior manager or director level in production operations, general manager, or a similar role in a smaller business covering engineering, manufacturing, leadership and some commercial activities.This General Manager vacancy is to manage and lead this engineering led manufacturing business.·Engineering and Commercial Leadership of key staff in Sales, Quality, Engineering and Production. ·Working with the retiring General Manager to take over the financial management, people leadership, and commercial strategy ranging from bid-no-bid to strategic growth.·Begin to take ownership of several key customer relationships.·Work closely with the retiring General Manager on financial and governance issues; cash flow and WIP, health and safety, machines & assets (disposal & investment), and 3rd party relationships with the bank, and specialist support from external specialists like HR, Quality, H&S etc.·Take a leadership role in strategic growth; this will mainly mean making bid-no-bid decisions on RFQs coming from key accounts. (This is not a new-sales vacancy).·Support and lead direct reports in the Sales Office; final checks on quotes, pricing and costings produced by the Account Managers and Production Engineer.As the General Manager the role will also include leading the culture and values of the business through your day to day approach as the leader, and ensuring that everyone in the business is being managed and developed (including training and appraisals). This <£8m manufacturing business has a solid base and several decades of trading relationships.This General Manager job will be ideal for;·A commercial and engineering person with an operations, production, costings or commercial engineering background.·A leader with a track record of getting the best from engineering, production and commercial teams.·A commercially-savvy mindset, and also able to use information to make informed decisions about pricing and bid-no-bid.·The ability to work with customers, build relationships and demonstrate a credible a mix of engineering and commercial skills.Above all, we are looking for a person that continue the success of the business through people leadership, key account relationships, bid-no-bid and commercial decision making.Negotiable package for the right person, Guideline £80-85k plus car or car allowance. This job is commutable from Redditch, Birmingham, Shirley, Solihull, Coventry, Warwick.Reference: IY.214HW25
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