Overview
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Are you based in the Grangemouth area? Are you an experienced site manager? We are on the hunt for a Site Operations Manager who's as passionate about great service as we are. International Timber is the UK’s leading importer and distributor of bespoke, sustainable timber and panel products. We provide a fulfilling and enjoyable work environment with ample opportunities for career growth, along with a competitive salary, staff discount, life assurance, and 34 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays).
What you’ll be doing includes responsibility for our Grangemouth manufacturing site, which includes indoor/outdoor storage facilities, a timber mill with 13 production lines, 3 timber treatment vessels, and an engineering workshop.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Lead Safety (EHS) and Quality policies across the site, ensuring we meet and exceed targets as well as meeting compliance targets during audits.
* Drive operational excellence by managing KPIs across the site and action plans to close gaps and drive performance forward.
* Coordinate the activities of the site to reduce cost, maximise profitability, and provide world class customer service to internal and external customers.
* Manage the site inventory team - increase availability and accuracy of our stock holding.
* Identify Continuous Improvement projects, leading changes to apply world class processes and exceed targets.
* Support Site Engineering and Major Projects.
* Overall Site Profitability, Plant efficiencies/productivity/stock management.
* Sales, margin, and profit analysis of site. Thorough analysis of P&L to meet and exceed budget and drive cost reduction.
* Management of all site costs including machining overheads, transport and labour costs and actions to reduce costs.
What You’ll Need To Have
* Previous experience in a management role
* High level of safety understanding and commitment
* Work-place negotiation around change and flexibility
* Seeks out opportunities to learn and develop oneself and team and seeks feedback from customers and colleagues
* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) - ability to communicate at all levels in an organisation
* Ability to solve problems before they escalate
* Strong numerical ability with commercial understanding (margin, profit, etc.)
* Excellent presentation skills - ability to present effectively to senior management
* Proven ability to utilise resources to achieve results
* Proven ability to influence key decision makers to achieve results
* Excellent Planning & organisational skills
* Budget management experience
* Valid UK driving license
Qualifications
* Manufacturing and operational qualifications, such as WCM, Lean, 6Sigma
* Educated to degree level, preferably in an Engineering discipline
* Practical and Technical qualifications such as IOSH or NEBOSH
* Minimum 5 years manufacturing operations experience and knowledge of EHS legislation and practice
What’s In It For You
* Competitive Basic Salary
* Performance Related Bonus
* 34 days holiday per year
* Retirement Savings Plan (Pension) – with Legal & General
* Life Assurance - Lump-sum death in service benefit of 2 x basic salary; increases to 4 x with pension plan contributions
* Work Perks – Reward Gateway discounts
* Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App (digital GP, mental health support, etc.)
* Voluntary company benefits such as Car Salary Sacrifice, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover
* Refer a Friend scheme
* Wellbeing Centre via Work Perks
About Us
At International Timber, we’re proud to be part of STARK Building Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We’re a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.
If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and join a team that is dedicated to providing great service, we want to hear from you. Apply today!
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Management and Manufacturing
* Industries: Wholesale Building Materials
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