Area Operations Leader

About McCain. At McCain, we are feeding the world: from French fries to smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values - Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality - shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.

Why join the McCain family:

• Your Life - we're here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.
• Your Success - work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, drive, and success.
• Your Impact - we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business.

Benefits:

• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay.
• Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Optional health cash plan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe.
• Great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future.

About the job:

It would be your job to manage all aspects of the Scarborough receiving area with support from technically skilled and semi-skilled operatives and engineers to deliver all performance targets relating to Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Environment and People. You would engage and motivate your team to exceed performance targets, through driving a talent and performance culture, creating a collaborative and inclusive team by encouraging and supporting the team to work together and to demonstrate our values. Nurturing and developing key talent by creating opportunities for them to learn, grow and succeed.

Reporting into the Potato Supply & Operations Manager you would also:

• Plan, manage and co-ordinate the development of the shift team's skills and capabilities.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Function to lead a shift team consisting of technically skilled and semi-skilled manufacturing Operatives & Technicians to ensure team, departmental and shift performance objectives are delivered, including the safety of people and food and the maintenance of assets.
• Provide training and coaching to the shift team to ensure they have the technical knowledge and skills to perform their job role to the required level of competence.
• Take accountability for personal safety, team safety and others, maintaining mandatory business and legislative compliance in your area of authority.
• Pro-actively manage quality specification requirements applicable to your area, ensuring Best Operating Practices (BOP) are being followed and on-line data collection, validation and analysis is being completed and appropriate actions taken in a timely manner to address potential deviations.
• Deliver the raw material schedule whilst ensuring agreed safety, quality efficiency and cost targets are met.
• Pro-active management of supply and operational costs within your area; daily budget control and accurate and timely cost reporting against agreed budgets.
• Identify, implement and deliver against opportunities for continuous improvement using appropriate lean manufacturing tools, techniques and principles; generating enablers and ensuring timely and cost effective completion of activities.

What we're looking for:

Our ideal candidate will be someone who is currently a Leader in a manufacturing / FMCG environment. You'll be a natural born leader, who builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others. You will also have the following:

• Experience of continuous improvement and lean manufacturing tools.
• Demonstrate a strong safety, food safety and quality mindset (working to GMP standards and be audit ready at all times).
• Have had exposure to budgetary controls.
• A winning mentality, and being able to hold yourself and others accountable for meeting goals - even under tough circumstances.
• Creating environments where people are motivated to do their best to help manufacturing achieve its objectives.

Shift Pattern:

The shift pattern is 2 days 7am-7pm, 1 day off, 2 nights 7pm-7am followed by 3 days off.

Location:

You'll be based at our Scarborough plant in North Yorkshire. We opened this plant back in the swinging sixties, but it's definitely not stuck in the past. It's one of the largest French fry factories in the world and after a recent development, it's also one of the most high tech. Our team of over 300 colleagues work hard to make sure the quality of our products keep our customers returning for more, for now and years to come!

Leadership Principles:

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

• We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
• We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
• We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
• We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain experience:

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually - your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

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