Our client, System Edstrom was founded in 1958 in Sweden to provide racking systems for service vehicles. Since then, System Edström has been at the cutting edge of product development, sales and service in the van storage sector and has an enviable 30-year track record in the UK. Their wholesale sector operates with Dealer Partners across the UK supplying them quality products and solutions for these partners to undertake fitting to their end customers.
Through an internal promotion and extensive business contract growth a new development opportunity has emerged to continue shaping and contributing to innovating their operations and facilities further. This is a rare opportunity to join a growing, changing and innovative business at their facility in Northants, and lead site expansion and development plans already in place.
The Role
Reporting to the UK Operations Director and working closely with the Operational Management team You will assume total responsibility for all daily site operations and financial aspects of this key production facility, including:
• Develop site operational strategy to meet goals and business aspirations.
• Health and Safety – work with the Production Manager, always ensuring a fully compliant safe operation of the facility.
• Ownership and management of the company’s ISO accreditations; ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
• Monitoring and reporting on production KPI’s and maintain quality standards and controls.
• Planning and managing day-to-day site operations with a focus on process improvement, IT infrastructure, assessing and implementing modern and innovative processes incorporating technology, productivity, process controls, whilst achieving high levels of quality assurance and consistency of outputs.
• Management of the property and warehousing with strict adherence to preventive maintenance commitments and life cycle management regimes.
• Review, develop and implement processes to ensure effectiveness and best practise is achieved in the operations and that the growth requirement is met.
• Ensure all improvement projects are managed and delivered to time and budget.
• Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards across all processes.
• Manage site logistics and all 3rd party contractors.
Person
This is an exciting role within a highly respected company, with a reputation for safety, operational excellence and technical competence at the cutting edge of vehicle racking. Your leadership skills will be called on to cover all commercial and financial aspects of the operations, facility management including life cycle costs, organisational and planning challenges, as well as process engineering and optimisation techniques.
We are searching for a talented up and coming professional with an aptitude for leading change in a challenging environment and would like to hear from you if you feel you can deliver real change to a business. We believe someone with a demonstrable track record in operations management in production or process engineering could bring a new dimension of thinking to the business. Common sense and an inquisitive and logical mind-set will hold you in good stead.
Critical behaviours and attitudes:
• Adept Interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and listen to others.
• Ability to nurture and get buy in from immediate reports.
• Managing relationships with support functions.
• Excellent work ethic and problem solving.
• Enthusiastic flexible group player with high expectations of self and others.
• Excellent coaching skills and the ability to develop others.
• Completer, Finisher – Able to work under pressure, on own initiative and constantly seek to improve.
If your background is in FMCG, Waste Management or Recycling, this would be highly advantageous. it would also be beneficial if you have Lean six sigma experience
If you feel you have the necessary requirements and the capacity to develop in this organisation, then please forward a detailed CV in confidence to our retained partners Harbury Consulting for the attention of our lead consultant Hardeep Lall. No Agencies – To ensure a fair and consistent process all third-party applications will be redirected to Harbury Consulting.
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