Job Title: Production Manager
Location: Bury St Edmunds
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Reporting to: Operations Manager
Job Req: R7984
The Production Manager is responsible for the daily operation and performance of the site. This covers all aspects of people motivation, safety, quality and cost.
Purpose of the Job
- To provide support and assistance to the Operations Manager ensuring that all costs are managed within budgetary/forecasted levels.
- To produce products to the required specifications and maintain effective quality control in order to meet the requirements of quality assurance schemes as specified.
- Ensure the production and planning teams are performing to their full potential through regular monitoring of objectives, coaching, motivation, involvement and training.
- Assist the Operations Manager with the site inventory to ensure minimum use of working capital.
- Ensure that the mill operates to all current legislation and company procedures, including Health & Safety, Environment and quality Standards.
- Achieve and monitor the energy usage against the target for the site (KWH/t) as set by the UK Management Team.
- Discuss and agree the CAPEX spend requirements with the Site Management Team on an annual basis.
- To take the lead in the running of the site, in the absence of the Operations Manager.
Key Accountabilities
- Maintain a shift rota to facilitate 24/7 operational cover, ensuring that the mill is fully staffed as required at all times. Holidays and sickness need to be taken into account and cover agreed as early as possible.
- Continually evaluate your team’s training requirements, and ensure that they receive the relevant training and coaching.
- Performance manage your team on a day-to-day basis and address any disciplinary issues as and when they occur. Schedule regular appraisals with each of your team members individually.
- Continually monitor levels of absence and address problems as necessary.
- Manage and administer the recording of the time and attendance system.
- Promote effective communication between production, maintenance, planning and logistics staff, and encourage good team morale.
- To monitor the production processes to achieve the optimum performance of the plant, as well as the performance KPI’s set by the UK Management Team, including the energy usage (KWH/t).
- Work with the Engineering Team to ensure the maintenance plan minimises the time lost through breakdown.
- Maximise throughputs, which should then enable planned shutdowns, enabling all departments to ensure customer requirements are met on time.
- Ensure audits are conducted on a regular basis to ensure that HSEQ compliance is maintained at all times.
- Monitor and control the costs of manufacturing consumables such as Dies, Rolls, grinder beaters, etc.
- Ensure that feed is manufactured to the agreed Company quality standards and in compliance with all protocols and legal requirements.
- With the Formulations department, review formulations on a monthly basis to evaluate the impact of any changes on quality or throughput.
- Investigate, report on and implement corrective actions for any production related customer complaints.
- Ensure the mill cleaning schedule is adhered to and all spillages and leaks are dealt with in the appropriate manner.
- Create a ‘clean-as-you-go’ culture, so we can all have pride in our working environment.
- Work with the Operations Manager to assist with monthly stocktaking by managing physical stock checks of macro and micro raw materials.
- Work with the Operations Manager to ensure that all mill costs are maintained within budget constraints.
- Ensure that you encourage a safety first culture and provide a safe working environment for your team, protecting all visitors to the premises, and meet all business and legal requirements.
- In conjunction with the Operations Manager, it is your responsibility to work towards these objectives by planning, training, supervising, consulting, investigating and preventing.
- Manage the site with an effective Environmental Management System.
- To work with the Operations Management Team to identify and develop opportunities for manufacturing improvements.
- Ensure Environmental management system is followed and adhered to complying with BS EN ISO 14001/50001
About ForFarmers
Do you ever stop to wonder where your Sunday morning poached egg came from? Or the milk in your cafè latte? Or what about the sausage and bacon served with full English? It will come as no surprise to you that the animals which produce these products need to eat themselves too. And that’s where ForFarmers comes into the equation.
ForFarmers produces feed for cattle, pigs and poultry in both conventional and organic livestock farming. And that probably sounds a great deal simpler than it actually is. Make no mistake: an awful lot of knowledge, research and innovation has gone into one of those seemingly simple-looking chunks of animal feed. And these are the kind of things we, as a company, invest a great deal in.
Proud values:
PASSIONATE
Working for ForFarmers is more than a job; it's a passion. The farming business is what makes us tick. We do everything we can to future-proof the sector, and this ambition shines through in our behaviour and our way of working. We push back boundaries and go the extra mile for our customers, suppliers and colleagues.
RESPONSIBLE
Our actions have an impact. We help farmers work in a sustainable way so that together we can safeguard the continuity of the farming business. The same principle applies to our day-to-day operations: we take good care of our customers and other stakeholders, and always aim for the best, most efficient and most sustainable result.
OPEN-MINDED
Keeping an open mind enables us to support farmers in the rapidly changing agricultural sector. We are able to adapt to the needs and working methods of the industry and are always on the lookout for new opportunities. We are clear about our intentions and expectations and prefer to listen than to speak.
UNITED
Addressing the challenges with which the agricultural industry is faced requires a joint effort and mutual trust. We join forces with colleagues and customers and work as one team towards our shared goals. In many cases we take the lead but we are also able to follow if that produces better results.
DELIVERING
We have a natural ambition to get things done, regardless of how difficult the job is. We do what we say and say what we do. We are respectful, honest and direct at all times. It is the sign of a ForFarmers employee.
Applications
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