Factory Manager Barnwell

WE ARE 200 years of history and over 2,300 employees strong. WE ARE a business loaded with opportunity and career progression.WE ARE innovators, designers, makers and engineers who manufacture and provide smart, efficient, and effective building products and solutions.

Through our customer relationships, diverse building product range and solutions, we enable the creation of inspirational homes, places and spaces for us all to live and work better. With eight core product categories, underpinned by expert design and technical services, we work with architects, builders, merchants and the wider construction supply chain to build the face of Britain.

We are fully committed to a net zero future and continue to invest in expertise and product development to manufacture more efficiently and sustainably. We pride ourselves on leading for new, innovative and sustainable products and solutions, both for today and for a new era of building.

To support our progress, we are currently recruiting for a Factory Manager to join our Barnwell factory. As the Factory Manager, you will be an inspirational leader, who role models our core values. Optimising all Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and delivering exceptional customer satisfaction, whilst fulfilling the highest health and safety, quality, sustainability and cost expectations. To underpin this, you will drive a culture focused on both sustainable and continuous improvement, where our people and processes deliver exceptional performance.

Key Responsibilities:

Health, Safety & Wellbeing

• Create a culture where the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues is the absolute priority.
• Ensure all statutory obligations, company policies and procedures are understood and adhered to, by all employees, at all times.

Leadership

• Create a strategic plan for the site, involving the team to ensure high levels of engagement and commitment.
• Deliver visible felt leadership and engagement of the team to create and embed a culture of high performance and development.
• Act as a role model of Ibstock’s values and behaviours.
• Plan and implement training and development for direct reports including recruitment and succession plans to create a flexible, effective multi skilled team.
• Coach and develop the team to maximise their strengths, and to close any development gaps.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure the factory adopts the Ibstock Management System (IMS) whilst developing a continuous improvement mind-set that ‘challenges the status quo’.
• Deliver the Factory annual budgets against agreed targets.
• Continual review, update and delivery of the Factory strategic plans.
• Work with the factory team to identify, submit and implement suitable capital investment projects.
• Support development of new products as required.
• Maintain and present Operational Reports
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for any non-conformances in the factory.

Sustainability

• Lead the team to make a positive contribution to the local community, and support the most vulnerable in society.
• Continually strive to improve the environmental performance of products and operations.

Finance

• Prepare and deliver the factory’s annual budget ensuring that all planned spend is correctly costed and in line with budget.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Has knowledge of current Health, Safety, Environmental and Employment legislation.
• Is an outstanding operational leader who meets challenge with a pragmatic and resilient approach.
• Is experienced in managing multi-discipline teams.
• Has strong influencing and engagement skills demonstrated through values based leadership and role modelling positive leadership behaviours.
• A natural coach and team builder with exceptional interpersonal skills who enjoys developing and leading others to improve their performance.
• Able to develop a capable and multi skilled manufacturing team
• Can implement and drive performance improvement using Continuous Improvement tools & techniques.
• Is financially and commercially aware, able to decipher and make informed decisions against financial reports and develop capital expenditure plans.
• Able to use IT systems effectively.