Overview
General Manager, UK & Europe | St Johns Packaging
St. Johns Packaging (UK) Limited, founded in 1954, is a leading manufacturer of flexible packaging products. With a commitment to quality and compliance, we serve top food and consumer product companies globally. Are you an experienced Operations Manager with a strong background in print or packaging? (flexibles would be advantageous but not essential). Do you thrive on driving efficiency, quality, and continuous improvement? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for an Operations Manager to lead day-to-day site operations across printing, conversion, engineering, and warehouse functions. Reporting to the General Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping performance, culture, and customer satisfaction. Supported by Production Leaders and team leaders you will have responsibility for approximately 50 reports but we are positioning for growth with recent investment, so you will play a key part of the change to come.
What you’ll do
* Lead operations and engineering teams, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality performance.
* Drive a culture of empowerment, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
* Oversee production, labour deployment, and resource planning to meet customer demand.
* Manage engineering teams, budgets, and contractors, ensuring equipment reliability and compliance.
* Analyse performance using KPIs and root cause analysis, implementing improvements to reduce waste, downtime, and costs.
* Champion health, safety, and environmental standards, working closely with H&S and Quality leads.
* Play a key role in site leadership, with responsibility for up to 50 colleagues.
What we’re looking for
* Proven experience in operations management, ideally within print or packaging (flexibles highly desirable).
* Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach and develop teams.
* Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
* Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
* Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, or similar is preferred, but not essential.
Salary and benefits
Competitive starting salary commensurate with the level of the role, bonus, car allowance & private healthcare. Benefits include 25 days plus bank holidays, contributory pension, and generous 6x life assurance cover.
How to apply
If you would like to discuss any details of the role further then please contact HR on 01159446500. As part of our recruitment process we collect and process personal data relating to you as part of the application process. If you would like a copy of our full Applicant Privacy Policy please contact the HR department on 01159446500 to request a copy.
Job types
Full-time, Permanent
Additional benefits
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Free flu jabs
* Free parking
* Life insurance
* Sick pay
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