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Plant Manager – Leadership & Transformation
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Lanarkshire
£100,000+ salary + performance-related bonus
Permanent | Senior Leadership Appointment
We are recruiting an exceptional Plant Manager to take ownership of a complex industrial operation entering a significant period of change, investment, and performance improvement.
This is first and foremost a leadership role.
The successful candidate will provide strong, visible, and consistent leadership to an established operational workforce. You will bring clarity, accountability, and direction to the site while building greater engagement, raising standards, and creating a stronger performance culture.
We are open to senior leaders from manufacturing, pharma, engineering, waste, chemicals, food production, power, or another complex industrial environment.
What matters most is your ability to lead people, manage change, and improve the performance of a demanding operational site.
The Opportunity
As Plant Manager, you will take full leadership responsibility for the operation, working closely with the Board, senior stakeholders, and the asset owner.
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Your priorities will include:
- Providing visible and credible leadership across the site
- Leading the workforce through significant cultural and operational change
- Establishing clear expectations, accountability, and performance standards
- Addressing difficult people issues confidently, consistently, and fairly
- Improving engagement while challenging resistance and underperformance
- Strengthening health, safety, and environmental culture
- Improving operational reliability, efficiency, and output
- Delivering against contractual, commercial, and operational KPIs
- Developing a capable and accountable site leadership team
- Communicating effectively from the operational workforce through to Board level
The Person
We are looking for an accomplished senior operational leader with experience managing a complex, regulated, or safety-critical site.
You may currently be working as a:
- Plant Director
- Plant Manager
- Site Director
- Factory Director
- General Manager
- Operations Director
- Manufacturing Director
- Head of Operations
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You will need to demonstrate:
- A strong record of leading sizeable or complex operational teams
- Experience delivering cultural, behavioural, and organisational change
- The confidence to challenge poor performance and established behaviours
- Strong employee engagement and workforce-management capability
- Commercial and operational credibility
- Experience improving safety, reliability, and site performance
- A calm, resilient, and highly visible leadership style
- The ability to make difficult decisions and bring people with you
This is not a role for someone looking simply to maintain an existing operation.
It is an opportunity to shape the future of the site, transform its culture, and make a substantial and visible impact.
The package includes a salary of more than £100,000 plus a performance-related bonus.
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