EMEA Head of Manufacturing and Operational Projects

• Regional Operational Excellence expert
• Food Industry

Multinational leader in its sector, established worldwide, with more than 70 production plants

Workings closely with Plant Heads of Manufacturing and Production Managers and shift Managers, primarily based in the manufacturing area across all plants(10) in EMEA ( UK, Spain, Russia) your main responsabilities will be:

• The installation of automation and capacity expansion projects


• Verify and manage the overall labour usage against the standard required, review SAP confirmation variances, etc.


• Advise management teams in each business unit of any discrepancies observed, work with the team to bring issues under control minimizing/eliminating losses and inefficiency at all cost.


• Ensure a team approach with regard to productivity, maintenance and hygiene of manufacturing area.


• Ensure that all production activities are in conformance with the product specifications. Continuously manage the quality of the product and materials to comply with product specifications, generate, create and implement action plans as needed for continuous improvement.


• Ensure that plant KPI Targets for output, efficiency, labour, quality waste and any variance against budget are explained, managed and rectified by a proactive team approach. Work with the Manufacturing Analyst to generate charts, reports and any other type of information required to monitor progress and review with production team as needed.


• Effectively manage the production team and encourage team performance through open and effective communication. Deliver briefings to teams as required, and produce daily, weekly and monthly progress reports for the Plant Managers


• Verify, control and assure that all the production parameters are within specification (i.e. process control).


• Monitor process parameters, identify (qualitative) deviances, evaluate and action solutions with team, review any areas of opportunity and address with manufacturing teams in each business unit.


• Enforce and manage company policies, procedures and regulations (Health & Safety, Quality, GMP's, etc.) and ensure these are followed to maintain required high standards (Food Safety, etc.)

Join a very challenging project in a very high qualified professional environment.

• A manufacturing or engineering degree


• STRONG FOOD manufacturing knowledge


• A good standard of both written and oral English.


• Computer literacy


• Excellent collaborative and coaching skills


• An understanding of MRP, SAP, KRONOS would be advantageous


• You will need to demonstrate an energetic and positive 'can do' approach to man-management and be 'hands-on'


• A collaborative, team based approach is key in this role

Competencies:

• Team Work


• Safety Awareness


• Managing Change


• Quality Control Awareness


• Resilience


• Attention to detail


• Planning and Organization Capacity


• Customer Orientation


• People Development