General Manager

3 days ago

Smethwick, United Kingdom DS Smith Full time

**About the role**

As the General Manager for our Birmingham site, you will be reporting into the Heavy Duty General Manager for the UK and be responsible for developing a highly effective site leadership team for a fast-growing site. Working closely with various teams andmanagers, both on site and in the wider cluster and business, we want you to provide exemplary leadership to our employees at the Birmingham site, demonstrating our core values and management standards, ensuring that we embed a culture of employee engagement,with world class health and safety standards.

You will be expected to plan, direct and run safe day-to-day operations for the site, ensuring that we exceed our customers' expectations. We want you to deliver superior, On Time in Full (OTIF) performance, with mínimal waste and a low defect parts permillion rate. You should implement strategic initiatives, direction and focus through the management team and work in partnership with our HR team to address any employee concerns or issues.

You should be able to create an environment of continuous improvement across the site, looking at Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improvement initiatives, developing systems and processes to track and optimise productivity. All of this must be deliveredsafely whilst maintaining disciplined cost control and ensuring that the site is profitable.

**About you**
- Substantial experience in a similar position for a large corporate
- Experience of ownership of HSE in a production environment
- Experience in a Lean Manufacturing environment, with a strong understanding of lean process
- Knowledge of financial management, commercial awareness and a strategic planner
- A thoughtful leader, confident decision maker, able to develop and initiate a continuous improvement culture, and able to coach, motivate and engage a team

**Benefits**
- Salary up to £65,000, dependent on experience
- Discretionary Bonus
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays
- Car allowance
- Pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
- Private medical insurance
- Sharesave scheme
- Salary sacrifice electric car scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Discounts
- Cycle to work scheme

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