Responsibilities
Responsible for all site staff, visitors, and contractors, ensuring the site complies with Health and Safety legislation, company policies, food safety requirements, and environmental regulations. Maintain assets in safe operating conditions and ensure they produce the product quality and quantities required. Oversee production and engineering staff to achieve safety, production, and maintenance objectives. Accountable for the site’s financial performance.
Implement and maintain production and demand plans to meet group objectives, plan production budgets with required maintenance outages, and ensure compliance with safe working practices and risk assessments. Develop safe working practices for maintenance activities, complete necessary reports and documentation for authorities, and audit site processes to ensure company and legal standards are met.
Maintain a preventative maintenance (PPM) schedule to minimise breakdowns, monitor an overview of plant condition, manage maintenance using appropriate tools and systems, and liaise with Group Engineering for technical and project assistance. Report quality impact issues to senior management, monitor quality performance, and implement process changes to meet requirements.
Communicate and motivate staff to achieve site KPIs, provide training, development plans, and succession planning. Manage HR issues and ensure processes such as return‑to‑work interviews are conducted. Create and monitor site productivity performance, ensure accurate stock controls, timely reporting, and budget spending oversight.
Participate in regular operational and planning meetings, plan shutdowns for maintenance or projects, and communicate fully with relevant parties.
Weekend and weekly on‑call coverage.
General Responsibilities
To demonstrate and support a commitment to equal opportunities, diversity, and customer care in line with good practice guidelines. Continuously assess personal performance and knowledge for improvement. Stay updated with H&S working directives, report any hazards to the line manager or Group Health and Safety Manager, and be fully trained on all company policies and procedures. Promote the company’s values and work positively at all times.
Qualities & Behaviours
- Commitment to help shape our company’s brand and purpose.
- Passion for our brand and a keen interest in malting.
- Enthusiastic, curious, and resilient, adaptable to change, with a grit to learn from mistakes.
- Demonstrate our workplace values: Take Pride, Be Supportive, Be Curious, Trust and Be Trusted, Pass it on, Better.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- Experience managing a site in the food manufacturing industry.
- Strong communication skills to develop working relationships.
- Experience with maintenance engineers.
- Flexible approach to working hours.
- Desirable: malting site management experience, leadership or management qualification.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (22 days for 12‑hour shift workers) plus bank holidays.
- Pension scheme.
- Death in service benefit.
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and shared parental leave.
- Company sick pay.
- Volunteer day off per year.
- Long‑service awards.
- Access to comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme and a number of Mental Health First Aiders.
- Learning & Development opportunities.
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