Hands-On Operations & Production Leader

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

• Head of Packaging recruitment - Greg Nelson -
• Head of Print recruitment - Neil Pearson -
• Head of Paper recruitment - Gary Young -
• Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies - George Thompson -

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector. For example, a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact, we have over 30 specialist categories.

Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

This role is extremely hands on and would suit someone who thrives in an environment with a highly varied workload.

Responsibilities and accountabilities

• Generate accurate and commercially priced quotations
• Price completed work and invoice
• Liase with customers and sales teams to understand their ongoing requirements
• Purchase materials and resources in the most cost effective manner and monitor supplier performance
• Coordinate and plan production schedule
• Monitor operator and machine performance
• Identify and implement improvements in key areas
• Implement staff training programme when requested
• First point of contact with staff
• Monitor stock levels and supply stock
• Liaise with senior managers and staff with all relevant information
• Acknowledge, investigate and respond to any customer complaints
• Ensure all plant and equipment is maintained and fit for purpose
• Support senior managers in the administrative aspects of the business
• Provide a safe working environment for all employees
• Generate any reports required by senior management team
• Achieve agreed targets set for efficiencies and profitability