Are you an exceptional Site General Manager or senior manufacturing leader who knows how to transform culture, improve accountability and lead people through significant change? We are recruiting for a Site General Manager to take leadership responsibility for a complex industrial operation in South Lanarkshire. The business is deliberately looking beyond their traditional talent pool.
Your background could be in pharmaceuticals, life sciences, regulated manufacturing, FMCG, chemicals, engineering, electronics, food production or another high-compliance operational environment. The organisation has access to strong technical expertise. What it now needs is an outstanding leader who can manage a difficult workforce, address long-standing behaviours, strengthen management capability and lead the site through a major period of transformation.
The Opportunity As Site General Manager, you will take responsibility for the people, culture, performance and operational direction of the site. You will be expected to create stability and clarity while introducing the standards, structure and accountability required of a high-performing operation. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Leading an established workforce through significant cultural and operational change
- Building trust while setting clear and consistent expectations
- Addressing resistance, underperformance and challenging behaviours
- Strengthening accountability across the site
- Developing managers into more confident and effective leaders
- Improving communication between frontline teams, managers and senior leadership
- Creating a stronger safety, compliance and performance culture
- Improving productivity, reliability, efficiency and output
- Delivering against operational, commercial and contractual KPIs
- Introducing stronger governance, reporting and performance management
- Working closely with the Board, senior stakeholders and the asset owner
- Ensuring the site operates in line with all statutory and environmental requirements The Person This opportunity would suit a strong people leader from:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Life sciences
- Regulated manufacturing
- FMCG
- Chemicals
- Medical devices
- Food production
- Electronics
- Automotive
- Aeros...
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