Plant Operations Leader – Facilities & Utilities

Macstaff

East Leake

On-site

GBP 45,000 - 55,000

Full time

9 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare
Excellent pension up to 10% company
Health and wellbeing benefits
Training and development
Career progression
Employee rewards programme

Job summary

Macstaff is seeking an experienced Facilities Plant Manager for a world-class manufacturing site in Leicester. You will lead facilities, utilities and outside plant operations, including ETP, wastewater treatment, AD, and starch processing, driving safety, compliance and performance.

You will develop and coach a frontline team, own daily outputs, and uphold GMP and environmental standards while delivering continuous improvement and strong KPI results.

Qualifications

  • Proven frontline leadership across safety, operations and quality.
  • Experience coaching and developing high-performing operational teams.
  • Strong safety, compliance and process awareness.
  • Ability to engage, influence and challenge people positively.
  • Proven delivery against operational KPIs.
  • Strong communication, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience governing standards and developing positive workplace cultures.
  • A flexible, adaptable and continuous-improvement mindset.
  • Good IT literacy including Microsoft applications and ideally SAP

Responsibilities

  • Leading, coaching and developing a high-performance frontline team
  • Taking overall responsibility for outputs within your area
  • Championing a safety-first culture and established safe systems of work
  • Ensuring environmental, quality, food safety and operational standards are maintained
  • Driving GMP, housekeeping and audit readiness
  • Maintaining governance of process and equipment standards
  • Managing attendance, performance and conduct
  • Coaching and empowering employees to build a capable, increasingly autonomous team
  • Monitoring KPIs and operational performance across a balanced scorecard
  • Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement
  • Working collaboratively with operations management and wider site stakeholders
  • Creating a positive, accountable and high-performance culture

Skills

Leadership
Frontline leadership
Health & safety
Operational excellence
GMP compliance
SAP
Microsoft Office

Tools

SAP
Microsoft Office

Job description

Macstaff is seeking an experienced Facilities Plant Manager for a world-class manufacturing site in Leicester. You will lead facilities, utilities and outside plant operations, including ETP, wastewater treatment, AD, and starch processing, driving safety, compliance and performance.

You will develop and coach a frontline team, own daily outputs, and uphold GMP and environmental standards while delivering continuous improvement and strong KPI results.

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