Operations Director, Door Manufacturer - Gloucestershire & Leicestershire

Unity Doors Limited; Newent; Sur place; GBP 120 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Unity Doors Limited seeks an Operations Director to lead manufacturing and engineering across its Newent and Leicester operations. Based at the Newent head office, this role will require weekly travel to the Leicester joinery business and direct reporting to the board of directors.

Direct line management includes the Manufacturing & Engineering Manager, Plant Engineer (Newent), and Commercial Operations Manager (Leicester).

Responsabilités

• Focus on process improvement and engineering for all aspects of manufacturing across both sites to maximize output
• Line management of Newent Manufacturing & Engineering Manager
• Accountable for all Maintenance & Engineering activities
• Line management of Newent Plant Engineer
• Work with the Leicester Production Manager to monitor and control use of production labour and minimize overtime
• Develop relationships with 3rd party providers for machinery, installation, parts
• Ensure health and safety requirements are followed across site
• Communicate priorities to Leicester team to achieve budgets

Description du poste

Operations Director, Door Manufacturer - Gloucestershire & Leicestershire

Unity Doors is a specialist in the design, manufacture and supply of Composite and Timber doorsets. As a result of a planned retirement, we are now recruiting for the newly created role of Operations Director to join our senior management team. The majority of the role will be based at our Head office site in Newent, Gloucestershire but travel to our Joinery business in Leicester will be required weekly.

The role will be reporting directly to the board of directors / owners.

Line management reports will include:

• Manufacturing & Engineering Manager, Newent
• Plant Engineer, Newent
• Commercial Operations Manager, Leicester

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Focus on process improvement and engineering for all aspects of manufacturing across both sites to maximize output and enable flexibility of workforce and machinery usage
• Line management of Newent Manufacturing & Engineering Manager, providing mentoring and guidance on day-to-day activities
• Accountable for all Maintenance & Engineering activities
• Line management of Newent Plant Engineer, providing mentoring and guidance on day-to-day activities
• Work with the Leicester Production Manager to monitor and control use of production labour and minimize overtime
• To develop and maintain high levels of machine preventive maintenance throughout the workplace and promote good housekeeping regimes across both sites
• Develop relationships with 3rd party providers – machinery, installation, parts – to ensure cost efficiencies and ongoing support partnerships for both sites
• Ensure all statutory and regulatory requirements are achieved across site for all electrical, mechanical and utilities supply
• To ensure that everyone on site follows and adheres to Health and Safety requirements and that they lead by example on how people should perform their roles safely
• Work closely with the board of directors to help achieve the overall objectives of both sites
• Work with the Commercial Operations Manager to understand the incoming order flow and to ensure the production plan meets desired delivery dates
• Line management of Commercial Operations Manager and Production Manager, providing mentoring and guidance on day-to-day activities
• Communicate clearly and regularly with the Leicester team to ensure that everyone is aware of the daily / weekly and monthly priorities in order to achieve the budget.
• Develop and implement plans and strategies to recover shortfalls in production and to work with the management to ensure these plans are implemented successfully and on time
• Working closely with the Technical team to ensure that all doorset compliance - fire, smoke, security and energy - is being adhered to during sales process
• Recommend ways in which the output can be improved, or costs can be reduced to improve profitability and efficiency of the business