Operations Manager | County Cavan, Ireland

Reporting to:  Site Manager

Job Purpose: Responsible for driving operational excellence of the operations function as measured by core metrics of safety, quality, performance & people management.

Key Responsibilities

·       Responsible for the production of high quality products that meet specifications and expectations of the customer and satisfy ROI/ UK / China regulations.

·       Maintain a consistent effort to operate the site to the most efficient way possible to decrease expenses and increase revenues.

·       Read and analyse charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records/reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.

·       Confer with BU Managers to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.

·       Ensures that reporting BU managers manage their Yield performance, maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, and training employees;

·       Maintains a safe, secure, and legal work environment; by adhering to Company policies and procedures

·       Develops and drives personal growth opportunities.

·       Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.

·       Manages teams absence and holidays

·       Establishes strategic goals by gathering pertinent business, financial, service, and operations information; identifying and evaluating trends and options; choosing a course of action; defining objectives; evaluating outcomes.

·       Accomplishes financial objectives by supporting the production manager in forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective actions.

·       Maintains quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards; analysing and resolving quality and customer service problems; identifying trends; recommending system improvements. Problem solving and team building.

·       Implement and maintain 5S to company standards

·       Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices;

·       Accountable for meeting customer specifications

·       Accountable for audit compliance within the factory not just your section.

·       Accountable for teams performance.

·       Managing waste disposal costs for their section

·       Ultimately, possesses authority over all slaughter/boning operations and bases decisions on what is most beneficial for the company.

·       Work Shoulder to shoulder with HR management to resolve employee problems, complaints or grievances

·       Ensuring that the developing and managing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all processes/tasks undertaken by employees

Core KPIs

·       Optimise boning hall and offal margin

·       Continuous Improvement Initiatives (Prize delivered to target)

·       People Metrics (Absence, Training Plans, Succession Plans)

·       Adherence to Lean Operations deliverables.

·       Quality – As per quality metrics

·       Efficiency – As per efficiency metrics

·       Safety – As H&S metrics

·       Cost – Budget & Labour

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