Title:  Factory General Manager

As part of Muller UK and Ireland group, Muller Milk and Ingredients is a fresh milk, cream and butter business with a network of dairies servicing customers throughout the country; with rapid and continued organic growth and confirmation of substantial investments in upgrading our network of dairies in Britain, it is an exciting time to join us. With this in mind, We are currently recruiting for a Factory General Manager (Known internally as Senior Operations Manager) to create a culture to deliver, empower and optimise performance across our Skelmersdale Site. The successful candidate will provide effective leadership across the day to day production operations and be responsible for the sites Muller Excellence strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops the site operations vision in line with business strategy (1year & 3 year)
• Lead a continuous improvement culture that supports the implementation of the vision
• Drives site KPI's to create best in class operations
• Develops, coaches and mentors team (champions 9 box models & site succession planning)
• Ensures clear accountabilities and responsibilities are in place to deliver site strategy
• Ensures adequate resources are available to deliver the strategy in line with business goals and targets
• Drives quality compliance and improvement to meet business targets
• Ensures effective systems (Inc PMS) and resources are in place to deliver:- Health, Safety and Environment compliance and improvement to meet business targets
• Reliable daily attainment of production plan and project management
• Ensure company policies and standards are implemented effectively and efficiently
• Effective cost management and cost competitiveness
• Customer Standards in collaboration with Technical Manager
• Supports the creation of annual site budget in line with company processes and procedures
• To develop an ongoing cost competitive improvement plan in line with the Operations vision and business requirements (CIC) including capital investment (deliver minor projects and support major projects)

Key Skills and Experience

• Experience of working within a high volume, complex manufacturing environment
• Effective problem solving skills and ability to work under own initiative in a high speed environment
• Knowledge of Liquid filling & Processing
• Experience of Lean/TPM/World Class Manufacturing
• Significant experience in leading and developing a team
• Lean Sigma Green Belt (or demonstrated capability)
• Experience in Project management including budgets
• Knowledge of Supply chain functions, including Warehousing & Planning is (Desired)
• Knowledge of BRC & Tesco PIU standard is (Desired)
• Knowledge of quality standards and effect of incident on quality
• Effective team worker, influencer and communicator
• High in enthusiasm & passion

Benefits

• A competitive salary & Bonus
• Company Car or Car Allowance
• 25 Days Annual Holiday + Bank Holidays
• X4 Life Assurance
• Access an exclusive rewards platform
• Company Pension
• Access to the Müller Rewards discount scheme offering over 800 discounts online and in-store and the potential to make savings across grocery and clothes shopping, holidays, insurance, gifts and more
• Free onsite secured colleague car parking

The Process

If you have the skills and experience in the above areas and would like to be considered for this role please apply today.

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