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Growing, ambitious business looking to strengthen their senior leadership team
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About Our Client
DwyerOmega is a global manufacturing business recognised for delivering high-quality products and solutions to customers across diverse industrial markets. As part of its continued growth and operational excellence strategy, the company is seeking an experienced Plant Manager at their Ely site - thier EMEA Centre of Excellence.
Reporting directly to the VP Operations EMEA, this is a high-impact leadership role with full responsibility for site performance, operational execution, and continuous improvement. The successful individual will play a critical role in delivering revenue and profitability targets while driving a culture of safety, quality, accountability, and operational excellence.
Job Description
As Plant Manager, you'll have overall responsibility for the leadership, performance, and operational management of the manufacturing site overseeing manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and logistics functions to ensure customer demand is met while achieving site revenue and EBITDA objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading all day-to-day plant operations across manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and logistics.
- Ensuring production output aligns with customer demand and revenue objectives.
- Driving on-time delivery performance and schedule adherence.
- Managing plant performance through KPIs and operational metrics.
- Executing the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process at site level.
- Aligning production plans with demand forecasts, capacity requirements, and resource availability.
- Improving forecast accuracy through close collaboration with planning and commercial teams.
- Delivering site revenue and EBITDA plans while driving productivity and operational efficiency.
- Identifying and implementing cost reduction and margin improvement initiatives.
- Driving Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement programmes to eliminate waste and improve performance.
- Leading, developing, and coaching the site leadership team and wider workforce.
- Building organisational capability through succession planning and talent development.
- Ensuring compliance with all health, safety, environmental, and quality standards.
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Success will be measured against key performance indicators including revenue achievement, EBITDA performance, forecast accuracy, on-time delivery, productivity, inventory management, safety, and quality metrics.
The Successful Applicant
The ideal candidate will be an accomplished manufacturing leader with extensive experience managing complex operations and driving business performance within a production environment.
You will possess:
- A degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Strong expertise in operational excellence tools, methodologies and continuous improvement techniques, with a proven track record of driving performance, efficiency and business transformation.
- Knowledge and experience of Digital Manufacturing, AI and Industry 4.0 technologies would be a distinct advantage, including the application of data-driven solutions to optimise operations.
- Demonstrable manufacturing experience, including significant plant leadership responsibility.
- Proven experience leading multi-functional operations encompassing manufacturing, supply chain, and quality functions.
- A strong track record of delivering production output aligned to revenue and profitability targets.
- Expertise in SIOP, demand planning, capacity planning, and resource management.
- Demonstrated success improving forecast accuracy, operational performance, and cost control.
- Knowledge and practical application of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement methodologies.
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You will also bring:
- Strong leadership and people management capabilities.
- Commercial and financial awareness with a solid understanding of EBITDA drivers.
- Excellent analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Strong planning, organisational, and execution abilities.
- A proactive problem-solving mindset.
- The ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- The agility to thrive within a fast-paced and evolving manufacturing environment.
What's on Offer
Competitive salary + benefits
This is an excellent opportunity for a driven Plant Manager to take ownership of a strategically important manufacturing operation and make a significant impact on operational performance, customer delivery, and business growth.
Contact
Ruth Hancock
Quote job ref
JN-072026-7056929
Phone number
+44 114 263 6023
Job summary
Job function
Engineering & Manufacturing
Subsector
Operations Management
Sector
Industrial / Manufacturing
Location
Ely
Contract type
Permanent
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