Operations Manager - Food Manufacturing

SUMMARY:
A well-known and established international food manufacturing company requires the above to strategically manage and oversee the effective leadership of the operations, production and maintenance teams, running a world-class manufacturing facility.

POSITION INFO:
Minimum requirements for the role:

• A tertiary qualification in engineering, supply chain, business, management or related field is preferred for this role.
• Previous experience working in an operations management role leading a team in a food or pharmaceutical or related manufacturing plant environment is essential.
• Previous experience working in TPM environments preferred.
• Must have knowledge of an ERP (SAP preferred), manufacturing methods and related equipment.
• FDA / GMP knowledge preferred.
• Knowledge of innovation strategies, product lifecycle management, packaging, and go-to- market strategies.  Ability to understand implications of commercial strategies and to make operational changes to support organizational performance.
• Ability to develop action plans, obtain or assign resources, and align day-to-day processes to achieve strategic goals.
• Ability to drive innovation based on data and loss analysis.   
• Understanding of key financial topics, including: budgeting, cost centre ownership, CAAP, IRR, yield, waste, scrap, line level loss analysis and understanding/execution of the key levers to positively impact these financial metrics.
• Ability to manage team in accordance with the appropriate employment laws or compliance regulations and ability to apply appropriate workplace safety legislation and regulatory requirements to team processes and management.

• Providing team leadership, direction and oversight to the multiple operations and supply chain of the plant through the high-performance work systems and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodologies, systems and tools to build a high-performance culture of continuous improvement and enhance organizational capability. 
• Partnering with site and regional leaders to develop and execute strategic plans to deliver short- and long-term plans for our people, performance and growth objectives.
• Developing and deploying objectives, goals, strategies and measures to meet or exceed established performance goals in the areas of safety, quality, reliability, cost, service, staffing and engagement across the end-to-end supply chain.
• Building and supporting linkage into strategic agenda: capital, loss analysis, people development, workforce planning, change management, inclusive of employee relations strategy.
• Driving the organization to a culture of total employee ownership by effectively managing systems to drive empowerment and engagement for all employees and promoting active participation in learning and continuous improvement activities. 
• Leveraging TPM methodologies, systems and tools to establish and maintain comprehensive continuous improvement processes that maximize employee capabilities and contributions to drive improvements in the areas of productivity, reliability, costs, quality and safety.
• Developing, collaborating and engaging strong cross functional relationships (R&D, commercial, etc) to eliminate loss and enable growth, to include new and existing products are manufactured on time and in specifications to meet customer demand and with key venders as they relate to the operations function to include fit for use materials and products.  
• Ensuring compliance with respect to HACCP, good manufacturing practices, food hygiene requirements and health and safety regulations.
• Ability to put together capex proposals and manage them effectively.