Manufacturing Leader

4 weeks ago


Thornton Cleveleys, United Kingdom Victrex Full time

Have you a demonstrable track record of managing operations for a global leader in polymer solutions? Do you possess the professional experience to lead production teams to ensure a continuous improvement mind-set and champion initiatives to improve operations and support the achievement of efficiency gains?

About Victrex:
The Role:
Responsible for the continuous operation of the production team, to deliver all production targets for a polymer manufacturing asset to the required standards and timescales.

Your main duties will cover:

- Ensuring safe and effective operation of the powder production unit in line with company objectives and production targets.
- Developing and agreeing the local production plan, collaborating with relevant manufacturing disciplines e.g., maintenance, quality, HSE, to ensure delivery against the required targets.
- Reviewing weekly/monthly operational priorities and generating production reports and KPIs to optimise product/quality rate and plant availability.
- Identifying and agreeing resource requirements to deliver production plan.
- Overseeing production processes and managing implementation and delivery of production plan, optimising plant assets and resources (people, materials etc).
- Identifying, managing and controlling risk on a COMAH facility in line with relevant legislation and safe systems of work.
- Nominated out-of-hrs Duty Manager - responsible for managing risk and safety incidents for the site.
- Monitoring delivery of production plan to required standards and demand, identifying, and implementing corrective action as required to ensure delivery of agreed production plan.
- Identifying and managing improvement plans for own manufacturing area for both production and reactive and preventative maintenance plans.
- Translating business strategy into objectives for the manufacturing team and inspiring performance and focus across the team to deliver results.
- Leading teams to drive local recruitment and selection processes, and oversee all cyclical HR activity.

Vision and culture

By nature, Victrex is a product leader; innovation is one of the core values of our business, together with our passion and performance Our day-to-day culture is one of collaboration, support, and enablement. Cross functional interaction is key to our daily work. All employees play an important role in contributing to the Victrex vision and culture, which we are consistently engaging and developing for the 21st century.

We have also recently become winners of the prestigious Ecovadis Gold Award, which is a universal acknowledgement of our sustainability rating as being in the top 5% of over 75,000 companies. We are also proud to be recognised as a ‘Disability Confident’ employer.

**We are supportive of flexible working at Victrex - so please do talk to us about this.



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