Plant Operations Leader – Facilities & Utilities

Macstaff; East Leake; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

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.