Cereal Partners Worldwide
Location: Bromborough

Competitive Package including basic salary and car allowance, potential bonus and excellent benefits companywide benefits

At Cereal Partners UK we have established ourselves as one of the largest cereal manufacturers in the UK, making many well-loved brands with a long heritage. Our aim is simple: to provide high quality, nutritious and great tasting breakfast cereals. You could join our mission to create a nation of Cereal Lovers!

Position Summary

If you're ambitious and thrive in a fast-paced environment, you can go wherever you want with one of our Technical and Production careers. At Cereal Partners, we’re passionate about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place.

We’re looking for dynamic and hands-on Operations Manager to lead the Operations function for a designated area of the site in the production of breakfast cereals, ensuring goods are produced efficiently, on time, within budget and according to quality, safety, health and environment standards and specifications.

A Day in the life of an Operations Manager

In this exciting opportunity, you will drive continuous improvement through TPM and empower and motivate people to develop their capability.

Ensure compliance with Company's quality, labour, hygiene, safety, health and environment policies and guidelines and with local Law and Company regulations. Maintain a safe working environment and provide continuous coaching support to team members. Ensure that products are consistently manufactured meeting prescribed standards in cost and quality.

Responsible for developing department budgets and cost performance metrics and meeting the budget and cost goals. Plan production schedules so that production quotas are met in line with financial and time constraints.

Using different continuous improvement tools and methodologies, develop plans to enhance the performance manufacturing in terms of safety, cost, quality, hygiene, productivity, etc.

Responsible for planning, assigning and directing work and to formally assess team performance against objectives. Ensure ongoing smooth operation of the lines through effective employee and industrial relations. Build a strong team spirit and role model behaviours.

Develop team by providing coaching, support, direction and documented performance appraisals. Provide ongoing feedback. Accountable for ensuring sound career and succession plans.

What Will Make You Successful

This is an exciting career opportunity to join the world’s largest food company for candidates with solid technical skills.

• Degree qualified in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
• Proven experience at a senior level in production manufacturing in a supervisory/management role. Knowledge of breakfast cereal processes and techniques is a plus.
• Knowledge of raw and packaging materials used in the production of breakfast cereals.
• Experience on plant optimization along with involvement with continuous improvement activities.
• Understanding of Safety, Engineering, Quality and Labour regulations.
• TPM or Lean Manufacturing experience is desirable.
• Proven experience in Industrial Relations/negotiations is preferred.
• Proven experience managing cross- functional projects.
• Proven experience in Change Management.
  

What you need to know

In turn, Cereal Partners can offer in-depth training and a development programme to lift your skills and knowledge further, whilst being part of a highly motivated team.

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of CPW – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 9th January 2023

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At CPW, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

Right to work in the UK

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. We have assessed this role and it would be applicable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. Financial support could be available from Nestlé to assist with the immigration fees associated with the Skilled Worker route. We encourage you to review the UK Home Office guidelines ahead of submitting a job application to review whether you meet the eligibility criteria under the Skilled Worker route. If you require sponsorship, please discuss this with us as part of the recruitment process.