We are seeking a dedicated Unit Manager at Dagenham Aggregates to lead and manage our site operational unit, delivering outstanding results while maintaining a focus on safety, environmental standards, cost efficiency, quality, and service objectives. If you're driven by continuous improvement and thrive in a dynamic environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
* Operational Leadership: Manage site operational unit whilst ensuring all operations are safe, compliant, and efficient.
* Team Management: Lead and inspire a team of 21 employees, in addition to coordinating with contractors, fostering a positive and high-performing culture.
* Production Oversight: Oversee the production of approximately 2.4MPTA of sand, gravel and limestone annually, meeting and exceeding set targets.
* Budget and Financial Management: Control the annual budget, ensuring cost efficiency, and manage capital expenditure projects from inception to completion.
* Performance Enhancement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiencies and elevate existing performance levels.
* Adaptability: Respond effectively to changing business requirements, managing any adjustments to the scope of the unit and sites included.
Key Requirements:
* Proven experience in quarry operational management, ideally in the aggregates, mining, or heavy industrial sectors.
* Demonstrable experience in leading and managing teams to achieve performance targets.
* Strong financial acumen, with experience in budget control and managing capital projects.
* Commitment to maintaining high standards of safety, environmental compliance, and quality.
* Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
* Strong communication and interpersonal abilities to work effectively with employees, contractors, and stakeholders.
Education/Qualification
* Higher level either vocational or educational
* NVQ/QCF Level 5/7 in SHE quarry operations
Salary ote £60,000
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Dagenham
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* Compensation Package: Bonus incentives / Generous Pension Schemes / Life Assurance
* Work Life Balance: 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) / Agile working / Flexible working / Holiday purchase / Sabbatical
* Family Friendly: Enhanced policies such as Maternity / Paternity / Parental Leave / Neonatal / Adoption/IVF/Menopause
* Social Value: paid Volunteering Day every year / Communities (LGBTQ+, Network of Woman, Woman in Science and Engineering (STEM), Armed Forces)