Factory General Manager

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Vacancy Name
Factory General Manager

Employment Type
Permanent

Country
United Kingdom

Location
Long Sutton

Business Area
Operations

Workplace Type
Hybrid

About Princes
The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Role Description

Due to growth and internal progression within the business Princes Long Sutton are looking for a Factory General Manager to join our Long Sutton site. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's leading FMCG businesses

Job Purpose

Lead, direct and take ownership for delivery and improvement of key metrics - Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost & People. Lead on the championing and embedding of the Princes values, competencies and behaviours. Coach, mentor and lead the site leadership team in the knowledge, deployment and application of the Princes Operational Excellence System. Develop High Performing Leadership Teams at all levels in line with the Princes Organisational Design principles. Deliver the Strategic plans as measured by the business balanced scorecard key performance indicators. Manage relationships and adherence to the Must Win Battle Plan (MWBP), Balanced scorecard, Audit compliance Quality and EH&S and Capital expenditure

Benefits

• £9,616 Cash Car Allowance
• 14.5% Pension consisting of a 9.5% Employer contribution (Opt-In)
• 20% Corporate Incentive Scheme/Bonus (part performance based and company based)
• 26 days Annual Leave including a day for your Birthday + Bank Holidays
• Flexible holidays the option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Critical Illness Scheme
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policy
• Private Medical Insurance (Single, Partner and family cover)

Working Hours
This is a Monday - Friday 08.45 - 17.00 on site position

Dimensions

• Single Site
• 6 Direct/Indirect Reports
• Long Sutton
• Cross functional leadership team some matrix reporting within Group
• 24/5 Production operation 17 million cases
• 24/7 engineering, technical and third party warehousing
• c.550 indirect reports
• Budget control levels £180M (inc materials & packaging yield)

Principal Responsibilities

• Business Awareness
• Budgetary control of cost centres, P&L, Inventory, Service Levels
• Matrix management reporting
• End to End (Value Stream Maps) supply chains
• Policy Deployment, Must Win Battle Plans, Floor Management System
• Ensure that `The Voice of the Customer` is clearly heard across the site. Production, Quality and EH&S standards, specifications & compliance.

Communicating & Influencing
External:

• Local Authorities
• Unions
• Customer visits
• Accreditation bodies
• Suppliers

Internal

• Colleagues
• Head Office Support Functions
• Business Sector Teams
• Unions
• Weekly & Monthly briefings
• Support the on-going development of the Princes Operational Excellence System with hands on coaching & mentoring.

Planning & Organising

• Work effectively within the Group Policy Deployment & Must Win Battle Plan models
• Ensure Management meeting standard work is understood and deployed.
• Ensure production output and inventory levels are controlled within the parameters of the agreed capacity plan.
• Develop organisation structure to deliver High Performance Organisation
• Develop succession planning for the next two levels.
• Asset Excellence Strategy fully deployed
• Capital planning and execution.
• MES deployment, implementation and application.

Creativity & Innovation

• Process Innovation
• Challenge the status quo

Working with People

• Further develop the culture of Zero Loss and Continuous Improvement
• End to End (Value Stream Maps) supply chains
• Ensure that The Voice of the Customer is clearly heard across the site.

Leading a Team

• Effectively manage the interface with the various indirect support functions Technical Marketing/NPD and Logistics to ensure that production achieves and exceeds customer requirements across the site.
• Lead and develop the teams across the two sites to create a high performing culture and a desire to succeed.
• Actively lead the team through the Princes values, competencies and behaviours.
• Actively promote the key manufacturing philosophies of "Go Look See Ask" & "Stop & Fix".
• Create & maintain a Culture of Reliability. Ensure all plant and equipment is operating to maximum operational efficiency.
• Confirm that all Autonomous, Planned Maintenance & Root Cause Analysis activity is achieved to minimise downtime and remedial expenditure.
• Ensure that the Princes Early Equipment Management processes are followed ensuring all capital expenditure projects is delivered on a timely basis with costs and benefits in line with approved levels.
• Quality - development, deployment and engagement in improving culture through use of control plans for suppliers, production lines, MES for RFT, training and development of FMEA`s to manage customer audits
• Environmental, Health & Safety - development and engagement in further improving culture, energy, incident and hazard reduction.

General Responsibilities

• Understanding and implementation of lean manufacturing work practices including 5S, AM and problem solving (including root cause analysis), to drive continuous improvement activity throughout the site
• Have a detailed understanding of the Princes Operational Excellence System and the Site Must Win Battle Plan
• Ensure all training for direct reports is documented using the appropriate skills matrix.
• You must exercise reasonable skill and care for the health and safety of yourself and other people at work and you must not interfere with or obstruct anything provided in the interests of health and safety at work.
• The incumbent should demonstrate behaviours which are in line with the site values & help to improve the Quality, Safety & Environmental culture.
• Support the business in working towards delivering our ethical trading and human rights vision.
• When engaging with internal and external stakeholders (such as consumers, customers or suppliers) maximise any potential opportunities to communicate Princes` ethical trade and human rights approach.

These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the job holder. Flexibility is required by the business & this will be agreed with the individual`s line manager

Role Requirements

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Graduate calibre
• Proven Lean & Change management leadership skills within a best in class
• environment in the following sectors; Automotive, Aerospace, FMCG or Pharmaceutical.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, influencing, analytical and
• interpersonal skills
• Excellent Commercial and Financial Awareness.
• Experience of operating in/managing a unionised work force
• Experience of dealing with HR/people issues (disciplines, grievances, performance management issues etc.)
• Experience of coaching and mentoring and developing people to achieve their potential

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