Plant Manager

Reporting to the Head of Operations and Maintenance, the Plant Manager will take full accountability for the facility to drive performance, lead the team and maximise value for their customers and shareholders. The postholder will ensure priorities of predictability, reliability and availability are at the forefront of all decisions as well as driving a culture of ownership, accountability and responsibility.

Safety will be the number one priority for the Plant Manager who will also undertake the role of Site Safety Controlling Manager ensuring teams get ‘Homesafe’. The Plant Manager will have overall responsibility for the management of the site including owning and driving the P&L whilst working closely with the Commercial Team and Local Authority to ensure they deliver contractual commitments.

The Plant Manager will be directly accountable and responsible for the day to day running and long-term delivery of all Operational and Maintenance activities, working closely with the Central Engineering Team to deliver availability targets and outage plans. A true leader, the Plant Manager will be responsible for all people management activity and coaching the site leadership team to ensure all people processes are followed.

• Lead the site team in delivering a safety-first culture and represent the site as the senior representative.
• Drive safety compliance through the effective implementation of facility Health & Safety Plan, Environmental Management Plan and Quality Manual in line with associated accreditations (ISO 9001, 14001 & 45001 etc.).
• Ensure plant availability, production targets are met and reports regularly on actuals achieved against these targets.
• Maintain staff by developing a performance and continuous improvement culture, ensuring recruitment and staff development and succession plans are in place together with alignment to and compliance with company procedures, and productivity standards.
• To accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements; having ownership of the site’s P&L; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective action.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the business including Commercial, PPM, Finance, HR and SHQS functions. Supporting central initiatives and challenging where necessary to ensure the strategic priorities are met.
• Ensure appropriate operational standards are in line with best practice and industry benchmark, working with the central teams to develop improvements where needed.
• Maintaining high standards of legal and regulatory compliance and working with central functions to ensure a consistent coordinated approach