Plant Manager

Facilities Plant Manager

Leicester | £50,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

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Leading facilities, utilities and outside plant operations for a world-class manufacturer at a major, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Leicester, Leicestershire.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Facilities Plant Manager, Facilities Manager, Utilities Manager, Plant Manager or Outside Areas Manager to join a highly successful global organisation offering impressive facilities, significant ongoing investment and genuine career development.

You will take leadership responsibility for specialist outside plant including Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP), wastewater treatment, starch processing and Anaerobic Digestion (AD) operations, leading and developing a frontline team while ensuring safe, compliant and efficient plant performance.

You will like

The Facilities Plant Manager job itself, acting as the key operational leader for your area and taking ownership of daily decision-making, people leadership and plant performance.  Key responsibilities will include:

Leading, coaching and developing a high-performing frontline team

Taking overall responsibility for outputs within your area

Championing a safety-first culture and established safe systems of work

Ensuring environmental, quality, food safety and operational standards are maintained

Driving good manufacturing practice (GMP), housekeeping and audit readiness

Maintaining governance of process and equipment standards

Managing attendance, performance and conduct

Coaching and empowering employees to build a capable, increasingly autonomous team

Monitoring KPIs and operational performance across a balanced scorecard

Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement

Working collaboratively with operations management and wider site stakeholders

Creating a positive, accountable and high-performance culture

The emphasis is as much on leadership and developing people as technical plant management.

You will have

To succeed as Facilities Plant Manager / Utilities Manager, you will bring strong operational leadership experience from manufacturing, process, utilities, environmental or industrial facilities.  You will ideally demonstrate:

Proven frontline leadership across safety, operations and quality

Experience coaching and developing high-performing operational teams

Strong safety, compliance and process awareness

Ability to engage, influence and challenge people positively

Proven delivery against operational KPIs

Strong communication, decision-making and problem-solving skills

Experience governing standards and developing positive workplace cultures

A flexible, adaptable and continuous-improvement mindset

Good IT literacy including Microsoft applications and ideally SAP

Previous experience of outside areas, wastewater treatment (WWTP), effluent treatment (ETP), anaerobic digestion (AD), starch processing or waste management would be particularly desirable.

You will get

As Facilities Plant Manager, you will enjoy an attractive package including:

£50,000 salary

Performance-related bonus

Private healthcare

Excellent pension – up to 10% company contribution

Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits

Employee benefits and reward programme

Excellent training and professional development

Genuine internal career progression

The opportunity to work within a major, highly invested UK manufacturing operation

You'll be joining a substantial Leicester manufacturing facility employing around 1,000 people and benefiting from approximately £60m investment during 2026, offering both long-term stability and excellent scope to develop your career.

You can apply to this Facilities Plant Manager opportunity by pushing the button on this job posting (recommended), or by sending your CV in confidence to .

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