Senior Maltings Manager

Responsible for all site staff, visitors and contractors.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the site to comply with Health and Safety legislation, company policies, Food safety requirements, and environmental regulations.
• Ensure assets are maintained to safe operating conditions, capable of producing the product quality and quantities required.
• Ensure all products are produced to the quality and cost required.
• Overall management of the production and engineering staff to ensure safety, production and maintenance requirements are achieved.
• Accountable for the site financial performance.
• Implementation and maintenance of a production and demand plan, ensuring that group plan objectives are achieved.
• Plan production budget with required maintenance outages.
• Conformance to safe working practices by ensuring that all tasks have adequate procedures and risk assessments.
• Develop safe working practices for all maintenance activities.
• Conformance to any permit/regulations requirements, completion of reports and documentation required to submit to authorities.
• Ensure all site operations work to the required standards, staff are sufficiently trained, documentation is fit for requirement and maintained.
• Audit site processes and procedures to ensure compliance to company and legal standards.
• Ensure a PPM schedule is in place and carried out to minimise breakdown times.
• Maintain a plant condition overview highlighting at risk assets.
• Manage maintenance of equipment using appropriate tools and systems.
• Liaise with Group Engineering team when technical and project assistance is required.
• Monitor and report issues with impact on quality.
• Monitor and maintain an overview of quality performance and make appropriate process changes to ensure quality requirements.
• Communicate and motivate the site staff to achieve site KPI’s.
• Ensure staff are adequately trained, development plans and succession potentials are maintained and developed.
• Manage HR issues as they arise and ensure processes such as return to work interviews are conducted.
• Create and monitor site productivity performance, ensure teams are effective, trained and work to required output.
• Ensure accurate controls of stocks and timely reporting.
• Monitoring and control of budget spending.
• Participate in regular operational and planning meetings.
• Ensure shutdowns required for maintenance and/or projects are fully planned and communicated with the relevant parties.
• Ensure any potential quality impacts are elevated to the senior management and planning team to limit impact to delivery schedules.
• Weekend and weekly on call coverage.

General Responsibilities:

• To demonstrate and support a commitment to Equal Opportunities, diversity, and customer care in accordance with established good practice and guidelines.
• To ensure that own personal performance and knowledge are continuously assessed for improvement.
• To have up to date knowledge of H&S working directives and good practice. Awareness of own health and safety and how it may affect others in the workplace. Report any health and safety concerns to your line manager or Group Health and Safety Manager.
• Take responsibility for ensuring you are fully trained and aware of all company policies and procedures.
• To promote the company, its values, and the work of the team in a positive manner at all times.

Financial Accountability:

• Senior Maltings Manager sign off level.

Essential Qualities and Behaviours We’re Looking For:

• Commitment to help shape our company.
• Passionate about our brand, purpose and values and have a keen interest in Maltings.
• Lots of enthusiasm, curiosity to ask questions and learn.
• Be resilient, adaptable to change and have the grit to learn from mistakes.

Values:

• Ability to demonstrate, understanding and apply our workplace values. These are embedded in all roles and that applicants must evidence their values as part of the application process and during their employment journey with the company.
• Take Pride
• Be Supportive
• Be Curious
• Trust and Be Trusted
• Pass it on Better

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:

• Essential: Experience of managing a site in the food manufacturing industry.
• Strong communication skills to develop working relationships.
• Experience with managing maintenance engineers.
• Have a flexible approach to working hours.
• Desirable: Malting site management experience.
• Leadership or Management qualification.

What We Can Offer You:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holiday. (22 days for 12 hour shift workers)
• Pension Scheme
• Death in service benefit
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Shared parental leave
• Company sick pay
• Volunteer day off per year
• Long service awards
• Access to comprehensive Employee Assistance programme
• Access to a number of Mental Health First Aiders
• Learning & Development opportunities