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Operations Director

Employer
Precision Recruitment UK Ltd
Location
Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11
Salary
£95,000 per annum
Closing date
23 Feb 2019

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Sector
Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Analyst
Position/Level
Professional / Specialist
Contract Type
Permanent
Language
English

Operations Director

Salary: Up to £100k

Based In Loughborough, Leicestershire but easily commutable from Leicester, Nottingham & Derby and West Midlands.

Why this role?

Would you a like a director level role that will give you:

The opportunity to grow a production facility from low to high volumes.


Be part of the team to bring zero emission power to market in the transportation, standby power and unmanned aerial vehicle industries?


Be the person that brings production of the only UK developed PEM fuel cell engine into the market?


Be part of a leadership team building an engaging culture and highly committed team.

Due to the retirement of the current post holder and the business plan meeting its objectives, this business now needs a new perspective on how to capitalise on industry best practice in manufacturing techniques to drive the business forward in commercialising its products.

A real global player in the green energy market with employees and clients in the US, Japan, China and India, they provide clients with the best alternative solution to fossil or battery power. This is your chance to join them at an inspiring time in their journey.

What will I need to be successful?

We are looking for a self-motivated individual with the core competencies of:

Efficiently have productionized an assembled electro-mechanical product from low volumes into large volume output).

Successfully setting up and growing a production system with the right culture to be able to plan and deliver to OTIF and quality and cost parameters.

Strong leadership of an Operations team to drive an NPI into production mindset, being accountable for continuous improvement and a robust supply chain to meet objectives.

Develop and manage appropriate key performance indicators that align production lead times with sales orders to achieve customer expectations.

Through a down to earth, roll your sleeves up attitude, lead the team with a sense of urgency to deliver on the business plan.

Your Background:

You'll need to be a senior manager or director level candidate that genuinely understands operational excellence across all areas of business, but predominantly the Production and Supply Chain functions. With a strong background of achievement in a production environment of an electro-mechanical product, you'll see yourself as a Production Specialist who can lead the set up of automated cells and understand the tools of automation and robotics. Needed are excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. You will have a demonstrable track record in planning, organising and running day-to-day operations a multi-process production business (30+ people), meeting customer expectations by optimising production, your people through employee engagement and asset capacity.

Precision People have been retained on this assignment, and this process will manage all applications. Interested? Here are your options:

1. "This is the job for me, I meet all the requirements" - Call now and let's talk through your experience. Ask for Phil Walker on between 8.30am - 5.30pm
2. "I think I'm right for this position, but I'm not sure about some of the detail" - Click "apply now" so I can read your CV and come back to you.

Precision is committed to keeping our candidates informed and offer a guaranteed response within seven days when applying through the application system.

About Precision People

This role is posted by Precision People, specialists in Consultancy, Engineering, Technical, Sales and Executive Search Recruitment. Operating since 2004, we have placed hundreds of consultancy candidates in fantastic new roles. Precision covers the whole spectrum of consultancy roles from, Machinery Safety Consultants, Expert Witness, Health & Safety, Acoustic, Principal Fire Engineers through to Forensic Investigators and Consulting Engineers. We have many Consultancy roles throughout the UK and Europe, so get in touch today.

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