General Manager

EMR; East Tilbury; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay + bonus

25 days annual leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Employee support & life assurance

Wellbeing scheme with health services

24/7 anonymous wellbeing advice

Financial support & loan programs

Discounts on shopping/utilities

Cycle to work scheme

Training and development plans

Job summary

EMR is seeking a General Manager to lead our East Tilbury site, driving team development and ensuring efficient daily operations with a focus on continuous improvement and circular materials goals.

You will empower staff, oversee maintenance planning and asset reliability, and shape a culture of safety and high performance across the site.

Qualifications

• Qualities include personable leadership, willingness to learn, and strong communication.
• Self-motivation with a drive to improve and mentor others.
• Solid grounding in maintenance planning, asset reliability and operating performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a site team, providing tools and support for growth.
• Ensure smooth, efficient site operation with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Champion safety, productivity and best practices across operations.

Skills

Personable leadership

Excellent communication

Challenge yourself

Continuous drive to improve

Maintenance planning

Asset reliability

Operational performance

Experience in recycling/manufacturing/

Job description

What we offer

Everything must recycle. It’s what we stand for.

Together we turn today’s materials into tomorrow’s possibilities. Today’s old into tomorrow’s new. Used to useful. Waste into something worthwhile. You could be at the centre of change that will be felt for generations to come, keeping valuable resources in circulation and helping to make circular materials the standard for global industry.

Work this important deserves proper pay and proper benefits.

• Competitive pay rates and a bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus option to buy or sell
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Employee support - including life assurance and critical illness pay
• Wellbeing scheme - giving colleagues and dependents unlimited access to GPs and counselling, and cash back on health and wellbeing
• 24/7 anonymous health and wellbeing advice
• Financial support - including affordable loans, savings plans, advanced earned pay and education
• Money off shopping, utilities, entertainment and more
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Get stuck in but never get stuck - ongoing training and development plans tailored to how you want to progress

Applying to a new job is a big decision – even when the company you’re applying to has been voted a Great Place to Work for four years running and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation.

#INDHP

About our opportunity

What if the materials we see as waste could be part of the solution?

That’s exactly what we’re working towards – using innovation, expertise and purpose to transform valuable materials and tackle the challenges standing in the way of a truly circular economy.

If you want to help shape that future, this is the role for you.

What you will be doing

Day-to-day, you will be responsible for growing the potential in each one of your team members, giving them the tools and support they need to thrive. And you’ll ensure the smooth and efficient running of your whole site, with a big picture view on continuous improvement.

About you

We don’t believe in shutting doors on potential, so we don’t ask over the odds for qualifications or experience. We can teach you everything you need to know. What we can’t teach is:

• A personable, individual leadership approach
• The need to challenge yourself
• Excellent communication
• Continuous drive to be better and encourage others to do the same
• A strong understanding of maintenance planning, asset reliability and operational performance
• Experience working in industries such as recycling, quarrying. Aggregates, manufacturing, waste management, ports or other heavy engineering environments is desirable

If you have these qualities, you’re already well on your way to being an incredible General Manager. We’ll happily fill in the gaps by developing your knowledge, skills and expertise on the job. You don’t have to know a single thing about the metal recycling industry – just the enthusiasm to learn. And we won’t stop training you once you’ve reached peak Manager status, because when you work for a global leader in sustainable materials, there is no limit to your career progression.

Who we are

The products we’ll all need tomorrow depend on us making the most of today’s end-of-life metals, plastics and other materials.

Take a car at the end of its life - most people just see a...car at the end of its life.

We see steel, aluminium, copper, plastics, rubber, glass, parts, fluids, costs, risks, markets and - most importantly - possibilities.

Now, multiply that by thousands of cars - we recover, reuse and recycle all those valuable materials and put them back to work as low-carbon materials for manufacturing, infrastructure, energy and transport.

And that’s just one thing we recycle. Add buildings, factories, ships, railways and industrial equipment. That’s all our hard work - the gritty, practical, commercial, difficult work our 4,000 global colleagues do every day.

Anything from a can to an aircraft carrier can become anything from a bicycle to a building and, at the same time, we help to avoid 19 million tonnes of carbon and 10 million tonnes of waste to landfill, protecting nature, resources and the next generation’s future.

Which is all well and good for us to say, but this is what the real people behind the really hard work think:

“The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected.”

“I’m encouraged to keep a healthy work-life balance so that I can be performing at my best.”

“I’ve been supported every step of the way in my career progression.”

‘‘EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work.”

Four years as a certified Great Place To Work is no small feat. Oh, and don’t forget one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation. That’s pretty good too.

But we can do better. We’re aiming for a place in the top 60 companies in the UK - not for the accolade but for the improvement. A journey you should probably join us for.

If you want to be part of something bigger than yourself, have a role that really makes a difference and work with likeminded people towards the same purpose, this is the role for you.

Recruitment Agencies

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