Bottling Operations Manager

5 days ago


Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom William Grant & Sons Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Bottling Operations Manager to lead our Bottling/Packaging Area team. As a key member of our site leadership team, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of our bottling and packaging processes, while maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency.

Main Responsibilities
  • Operational Excellence: Manage the bottling operations to the highest possible standards, ensuring continuity of management, a sound control environment, and sharing of best practice.
  • Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Work collaboratively with key stakeholders and teams to harness strong cross-functional relationships that ensure strategic alignment and manufacturing capability to support the commercial and marketing needs of the business.
  • Supply Chain Management: Ensure the smooth functioning of the dry goods warehouses, including material receipt, efficient handling, accurate stock control, minimal damage, or waste, and provide timely supply to bottling lines.
  • Quality Control: Ensure the efficient functioning of the vat hall, including spirit intake, tanker unloading, regular stock audits, accurate chill filtering, and timely supply to bottling lines.
  • Team Leadership: Ensure the efficient functioning of the bottling operations, crewing appropriately with skilled employees across shifts, optimising labour utilisation, promoting teamwork, ensuring employee welfare, and executing efficient changeovers to produce cased goods to quality standards and production schedule.
  • Project Management: Control the trials and validation processes for NPD projects to ensure on-time and on-cost product launches.
  • Warehouse Management: Ensure the efficient function of the cased goods warehouses, control the receipt and inspection of product, drive handling efficiencies, perform accurate audits, minimise damage or decay, provide correct shipping documentation, and accurately pick orders in line with dispatch schedules.
  • Sustainability: Optimise energy/utility usage across the site bottling operations, minimise all wastage and continuously improve environmental performance.
  • Quality Assurance: Manage quality control across the department to ensure full compliance to quality specifications, identifying corrective and preventative actions and following through to timely completion.
  • Maintenance Support: Deliver comprehensive support to maintenance programmes, working closely to ensure stock availability of critical spares and to identify and implement improvement areas.
  • Equipment Maintenance: Ensure equipment is maintained in proper condition across all Packaging operations, including regular machine cleaning and tidy housekeeping.
Requirements
  • Leadership Experience: Experience of leading teams manufacturing/packaging within FMCG (food, drinks, etc).
  • Strategic Thinking: Can manage multiple and complex priorities.
  • Team Management: Is managing large and diverse teams.
  • Adaptability: Able to work at pace within a complex environment, with many product changeovers.
  • Continuous Improvement: Has a real focus on CI and OEE.
What We Offer
  • Competitive Salary and Benefits: We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees' financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
  • Holiday Entitlement: Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to 'buy' or 'sell' some holiday entitlement.
  • Private Healthcare: Private Healthcare and (remote GP service).
  • Pension Plan: Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
  • Employee Assistance Programme: Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
  • Life Assurance: Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
  • Product Allocation: Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme: Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
  • Charity Support: Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
  • Learning Resources: Learning resources to help you be your best self.


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