Role: Operations Manager

Reporting to: General Manager

Responsible for: Engineering Manager, Purchasing & MI Manager, Production Manager and Shipping Supervisor

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Commercial leadership
• Drive and champion the business strategy
• Evaluate, model and analyse commercial initiatives and proposals, supporting senior management decision-making
• Partner with the wider business to achieve targets and drive efficiencies; lead on cross-functional business projects and strategic continuous improvement initiatives
• Deliver improved production efficiency; ensuring products are produced on time, to excellent quality standards and within budget
• Production and resource management
• Build, develop and maintain strong customer relationships
• Lead and develop managers and supervisors by integrating planning, engineering, and production to create a focused team, whilst balancing productive headcount
• Promote team and professional development to support growth
• People management
• Optimise employee engagement and motivation
• Any other duties as reasonably required
Qualifications & Experience

• The ideal candidate will hold a third level Engineering qualification or equivalent with at least 7 years industry experience at management level in the manufacturing sector
• Experience of business partnering at a senior level
• Experience of managing technical teams
• Experience in implementing and leading continuous improvement projects
Person/Skills Required

• Excellent business acumen and strong commercial awareness
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels both within the organisation and externally with customers/suppliers
• Confident at challenging the status quo and in influencing and challenging decisions at a senior management level
• Advanced interpersonal, team-working and leadership skills
• Demonstrates agility and a willingness to embrace new systems, processes, technology, and ideas
• Ability to perform under minimum direction with a positive approach to dealing with challenges and ambiguity
• Results driven with the ability to motivate a team to help them understand the need for results
• Challenging and enthusiastic approach with an ability to take ownership and responsibility
• Proficient in the use of IT
• Understand the P&L dynamic

Click here to apply for this position or email your CV to careers@bellurgan.com