Head of Operations

2 months ago


Lichfield Staffordshire, United Kingdom Autosmart International Full time

Autosmart International is a manufacturing success story, leading the field in vehicle cleaning, we are the No.1 choice of automotive trade customers across the UK. To sustain and underpin our growth, we are investing over £25 million in our new 5-acre site, which includes state of the art machinery and automated production lines, as we understand that our manufacturing and logistics infrastructure is critical to our future success.
To inspire and lead our operational teams, we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivational, and dynamic people leader and manager to join our senior leadership team to become our Head of Manufacturing and Operations, where you will set, communicate, and realise the Manufacturing and Logistics Department vision. Our successful applicant will drive the operational changes and team building needed to achieve our business goals in this strategic and business critical role. If you are passionate about developing your people, bringing teams together, driving business transformation, and delivering continuous improvement, our role could be just what you are looking for.
Our Head of Manufacturing and Operations will be:
• Operationally responsible for our new highly automated manufacturing and logistics site, and taking it to full working efficiency
• Inspiring and motivating your team to achieve department performance against agreed key performance indicators, celebrating success
• Capacity planning
• Working collaboratively with your Direct Reports, Operations Director, and Senior Leaders
• What our Head of Manufacturing and Operations will bring:
• Experience in an automated manufacturing production environment
• Project management experience
• Knowledge of quality principles, lean manufacturing, and continuous improvement, such as Kaizen, visual management, OEE, SMED,Six Sigma
• IOSH/NEBOSH certificate
• A thorough understanding of manufacturing and warehousing principles and processes
• A formal Leadership and Management qualification (desirable) What we can offer our Head of Manufacturing and Operations :
• Competitive salary, we would love to have a chat about your experience and salary expectations
• Permanent contract of employment
• Companywide training programme to develop key skills
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• private health care and critical illness cover
• Generous contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance at three times salary
• Employee assistance programme
• If you are looking for a varied and exciting role, an opportunity to make a difference and a career with a market leading, rapidly growing business, we'd love to hear from you. Please note, this role is based at our Head Office in Shenstone, Lichfield, with frequent travel to our Burntwood and Norton Canes sites. The role will relocate to our new Burntwood site in 2024.
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