Cornish Lime are a UK manufacturer of traditional and innovative lime-based building materials. We are looking for a high-calibre Head of Operations to scale our manufacturing capacity, drive greater efficiency, and champion a rigorous safety culture across our production facility.
Your Objective
- Champion Safety & Quality: Cultivate a continued focus on maintaining high safety and quality standards.
- Drive Lean Culture: Continue to promote our 5S methodology and develop further methods of automation and continued drive for optimum efficiency.
- Lead & Develop: Manage the production, engineering, and warehouse teams, coaching supervisors to manage their teams effectively.
- Optimise Scheduling: Maximise throughput whilst taking a proactive approach to support scaling production.
Your Background & Skills
- Production Leadership: You will have a strong track record managing multi-disciplinary manufacturing teams.
- Commercial Acumen: Previous experience of maintaining strong financial awareness with a history of controlling manufacturing costs.
- Scale and Sector Alignment: Experience managing a medium to large scale plant would be a prerequisite.
- Supply Chain & Logistics: You will have direct experience overseeing material control, warehousing, and the factory floor.
- Regulatory Record: You will possess experience dealing directly with regulatory bodies (e.g., HSE, ISO etc) and managing or assisting formal audits. H&S training or certification.
- ERP/MRP Systems: An understanding of manufacturing software would be advantageous.
Why Join Us?
- Impact: You will be responsible for the continual development of our manufacturing plant and production capacity to support our continued growth and business strategy.
- Culture: You will be joining a highly collaborative team, focused on becoming the leading manufacturer of lime-based materials in the industry.
- Package: You will benefit from working from our mid-Cornwall headquarters – with easy access to the A38. We offer ample free parking, a competitive salary, comprehensive health package, holidays including Xmas shutdown, and a pension.
- Basic Salary circa £50,000 per year DOE.