Operations Manager

1 month ago


United Kingdom AB Agri Ltd Full time

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title : Operations Manager

Location : Sherburn in Elmet and South Milford, North Yorkshire – UK

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours a week, Monday – Friday

Are you a manufacturing leader with the experience and commitment to elevate performance and delivery? Do you enjoy working as a team to achieve long-term goals? Are you an advocate for Everyday Excellence?

If so, we have a great opportunity for you to join ABN as an Operations Manager where you will be responsible for our Feed Mill at Sherburn and AD Plant (Anaerobic Digestions) in South Milford. Support growth, ensure safety and quality, and maximise profitability. It is not just a job; it is a chance to make a real difference in the world.

Embark on a journey of innovation and sustainability, we are not just managing operations; we are pioneering sustainable waste management and renewable energy solutions. With bold investments and a stable team, we are poised to revolutionise the industry. You will inherit a well-established team and a sound site, with chances for continuous improvement and shaping the future direction of operations. This role demands leadership skills, budgetary management expertise, and a significant background in lean manufacturing, TPM and CI methodologies.

Our AD plant is leading the manufacturing aspect of an innovative Anaerobic Digestion plant. The mission is clear, to transform waste materials into valuable resources, generating clean energy for the national grid while contributing to a sustainable future.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide leadership, ownership, and governance of both sites, working towards growth plans.
  • Support and coach colleagues to achieve high performance.
  • Drive everyday excellence initiatives.
  • Profit & Loss responsibility and budget controls
  • Main point of contact for customers, facilitating effective service delivery and profitable supply relationships
  • Promote a culture of training and development.
  • Ensure compliance with HSE, Feed safety, and quality requirements.

About you:

  • Proven Manufacturing leadership experience with the ability to improve culture and performance.
  • Experience managing significant budgets and capital projects.
  • Ability to inspire the team to deliver business goals and lead through change and ambiguity.
  • Strong continuous improvement knowledge and capability.
  • Excellent leadership and engagement skills.
  • Sound understanding of business drivers and the ability to translate knowledge into cohesive plans.
  • Excellent commercial and financial acumen with prioritisation skills.
  • Feed milling or similar industry experience is desirable.
  • Anaerobic digestion plant or similar process experience is desirable.

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for to elevate your career, then why not apply today

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re AB Agri part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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