Operations Manager - Personal Care

Your responsibilities

Personal Care Operation Manager is responsible for delivering PC products in line with global regulatory compliance standards. The level of decision making within this role will have a significant impact on financial performance on the site and potentially the globe. Varied levels of complexity require the MOM to have a breadth and depth of experience both on a strategic and a practical level.

• Member of the BLT and site operations management team
• Ensure that Personal Care operations remain safe to personnel, contractors and the environment by having an active internals action planning that supports the overall site HSE improvement plan.
• Be compliant to relevant ISO requirements, other relevant EHS regulatory and company EHS requirements as required based on role & function responsibility.
• Drive the Manufacturing management teams to deliver operational excellence ie. productivity, quality, costs and customer services targets.
• Contribute operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality, and resolve problems; complete audits.
• Ensure that OEE is maintained, and improvement plans execution and meet the target.
• Ensure effective waste reduction plans are in place and delivering results versus targets.
• Establish a continuous improvement culture within manufacturing operations to sustain improvement gains.
• Lead and develop the team to implement digitalized tool to drive productivity improvement
• Define and implement a High Performance Manufacturing operation capable of exceeding ever increasing customer expectations.
• Utilise innovative solutions to optimise performance whilst reducing cost.
• Analyse and improve organizational process and workflow, employee and space requirements, machine capacity and equipment layout; implement changes.
• Continually assess factory performance targets and take action to ensure a favourable positioning against benchmarks and sourcing studies.
• Forecast requirements; prepare an annual budget; schedule expenditures; analyse variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Ensure the manufacturing management team achieve all quality standards in line with global compliance and in a cost effective manner.
• Drive budgetary control through manufacturing efficiencies to provide competitive advantage.
• Ensure proper staffing levels for all shifts department, by hiring the appropriate number of employees.
• Provide opportunities for the development of the manufacturing teams with particular emphasis on the Monitor process and strengthening the bench.
• Create an engaging environment where the team are energised to realise their full potential which always challenge the status quo but work internally and externally to the site mutual benefit.