Job Purpose
To lead and inspire a combined team of operations and maintenance employees across a number of wholesale production assets. The Production Manager will performance manage their team and the assets within the production area to ensure a safe, efficient and compliant outcome.
Job Accountabilities
1. Responsible for the operations and maintenance budget for the production area and the delivery of the financial business plan.
2. Responsible for asset performance and meeting the operational business plan for the production area.
3. Accountable for maintaining and driving improvements in compliance, efficiency and Health and Safety.
4. Performance management and training and development of direct reports in accordance with all Human Resource policies and procedures, including regular contact, one to one meetings, performance reviews etc.
5. Accountable for security and emergency requirements at the sites for which they are responsible.
6. As part of the Wholesale management team, contribute to the day-to-day leadership of the area including sharing best practice, implementing improvements plans and leading on activities identified through the business plan development.
7. Ownership of key external relationships, including the regulators and customers as appropriate.
8. To work closely with key internal stakeholders to ensure asset problems are identified and resolved in the most effective manner and maintenance is carried out in a proactive manner including appropriately planned and profiled proactive maintenance.
9. To act as a leader and advocate to deliver change required as part of the business plan.
10. To provide an effective operations and maintenance regime for the production area asset, minimising reactive work and work orders and increasing planned proactive activities.
11. To ensure both they and their team members work within the clear framework given to ensure effective operations and maintenance of their assets.
12. To balance financial, customer service, regulatory compliance and people priorities in order to deliver the business plan and sustainable and effective operations and maintenance regimes.
Knowledge and Skills
1. Managerial and leadership skills are critical for this role to deliver performance through a team of people responsible for wholesale production assets. The ability to motivate a team and deliver high performance across a 24/7 service is fundamental to this role.
2. Experience of managing operational budgets and delivering innovative solutions to improve the sustainable operating cost of a production type operation.
3. Good understanding of operations and maintenance strategies and preferably have some production line experience and the ability to react and keep production moving.
4. Effective communication skills able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
5. Education, ideally to HNC level (or equivalent) and an experienced line manager in a process or maintenance environment.
6. A good level understanding of the regulatory and legislative framework surrounding the operation and maintenance of wholesale production assets.
7. Analytical skills and the ability to drive solutions to a wide range of technical and managerial problems, whilst also knowing when to stop and ask for help from support colleagues.
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