At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and optimise high-performance manufacturing for sustainable packaging solutions.
- Company: Innovative startup focused on eco-friendly packaging from agricultural by-products.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, leadership opportunities, and a chance to make a real impact.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for growth and innovation.
- Why this job: Join a mission-driven team and shape the future of sustainable manufacturing.
- Qualifications: Master’s degree in Engineering or Science and extensive leadership experience in manufacturing.
The predicted salary is between 36000 - 44000 £ per year.
About Our client is scaling a new generation of high performance; home compostable Packaging made from agricultural by-products.
We need an ambitious manufacturing leader who can build systems, strengthen management capability, commission automation and create the disciplined operating rhythm required for sustained growth.
Responsibilities: Build practical capacity plans across labour, equipment, moulds, racks, growing and drying, then identify and remove the bottlenecks that restrict safety, quality, output, cost or delivery.
Maintain a visible safety culture, full audit readiness, robust quality controls, complete traceability and disciplined investigation of incidents, defects and deviations.
Implement Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, standard work, visual management and structured root cause analysis across the production operation.
Lead and develop operational managers, engineers, technicians, shift leaders and production teams, setting clear standards for behaviour, accountability and performance.
Use ERP, production and financial data to improve labour productivity, yield, equipment utilisation and manufacturing cost, then present clear risks and investment cases to the CEO and Board.
Essential
Experience: A Master’s degree, such as an MSc or MEng, in Engineering, Science or a closely related discipline.
Substantial and sustained senior leadership experience in technically complex, high volume manufacturing, with a strong record of operational improvement over a number of years.
Experience leading sizeable, multi shift manufacturing teams in a high care, high risk or highly controlled food manufacturing environment, complex automated food production or a comparable regulated operation.
Practical experience of PLC controlled manufacturing systems, industrial automation and the commissioning or optimisation of production equipment.
Particularly valuable Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent practical experience.
Experience implementing OEE, standard work, visual management and structured root cause analysis.
Experience scaling manufacturing through a significant increase in volume and building operational systems rather than simply inheriting them.
Experience within a startup, scale up or rapidly growing manufacturing business.
Experience working with biological materials, controlled environments or perishable feedstocks.
Experience presenting operational performance and investment proposals at Board level. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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