National Operations Manager - Packed Aggregate
Job Introduction
We are looking for a National Operations Manager for our Packed Aggregates division.
You will ensure the highest safety standards and optimal efficiencies are achieved across all 9 Packed Aggregate operations (Bargeddie, Blashford, Broom, Chatburn, Crown Farm, Eaton Hall, Killerby, Linford, Stancombe).
In this role, you will drive a culture of safety and performance excellence within the teams and ensure that all customer needs are met. The role is responsible for developing the short, medium, and long-term operational strategy across the Packed Aggregates Plant network and driving operational excellence that improves safety, health, performance, and sustainability. This role will have responsibility for ensuring that the business optimizes its resources to meet customer requirements, managing CAPEX, delivering its financial commitments, ensuring best practices are embedded and consistent, and ensuring a culture of continuous improvement with safety at the forefront of all actions. This will all be done through strong leadership and collaborative working.
Role Responsibility
* Deliver all operational changes required to achieve the Packed Aggregates strategy.
* Work closely with the Management Teams to ensure customer needs are met.
* Drive operational teams to deliver business objectives and develop a long-term project pipeline and capital plan to ensure the business can deliver against market trends; existing and new opportunities.
* Establish frameworks and systems for improving performance and governance of the operations ensuring that the sites are compliant, reliable, optimized, with change delivered in a safe and effective manner.
* Responsibility for the Packed Aggregates production unit operational costs.
* Work closely with the Finance Team to plan and control Finance and CAPEX spend, developing cost models for operational efficiencies.
* Develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement, including best practice sharing across the plants. Active benchmarking of costs and productivity across the plants and having a positive impact on operational efficiencies and health and safety - ensuring the health and safety culture is embedded in all sites.
* Identify and build strategic relationships with key suppliers to ensure all goods and services are delivered to the business in a safe, timely manner and to specification.
* Management of operations, quality, and environmental systems ensuring compliance at all times.
The Ideal Candidate
* 3 years Operational Management Experience
* Multi-site responsibility (desirable)
* Awareness of safety, quality, and environmental processes, standards, and legislation
* Budget and Financial Cost Control Management
* Understands warehouse, packaging, and logistics practices and requirements (desirable)
* Industry and Market Knowledge
* Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, influencing, and facilitation skills
* Health & Safety - IOSH & NEBOSH qualifications
Why Us
Along with the role of National Operations Manager, we additionally offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives, and benefits:
* Enhanced holiday entitlement
* Contributory pension scheme
* Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
* Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
* Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities including (REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & Carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female Voice, and Menopause
* Training and development opportunities
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Tarmac is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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