GENERAL MANAGER - FORDHAM

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General Manager - Fordham

locationsNewmarket time typeFull time posted onPosted 3 Days Ago job requisition idR-1847 About the role

As the General Manager for our Fordham site, you will be reporting into a Sector Director for our Retail business in the South of the UK and be responsible for developing a highly effective site leadership team for a flagship site.

Working closely with our production, engineering, design, customer service, sales and finance teams, we want you to provide exemplary leadership to our employees at the Fordham site, demonstrating our core values and management standards, ensuring that we embed a culture of employee engagement, with world class health and safety standards.

You will be expected to plan, direct and run safe day-to-day operations for the site, ensuring that we exceed our customers expectations.

We want you to deliver superior, On Time in Full (OTIF) performance, with minimal waste and a low defect parts per million rate.

You should implement strategic initiatives, direction and focus through the management team and work in partnership with our HR team to address any employee concerns or issues.

You should be able to create an environment of continuous improvement across the site, looking at Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improvement initiatives, developing systems and processes to track and optimise productivity.

All of this must be delivered safely whilst maintaining disciplined cost control and ensuring that the site is profitable.

About you

• Minimum requirements : *
• Substantial experience in a similar position for a large corporate
• Experience of ownership of HSE in a production environment
• Experience in a Lean Manufacturing environment, with a strong understanding of lean process
• Knowledge of financial management, commercial awareness and a strategic planner
• A thoughtful leader, confident decision maker, able to develop and initiate a continuous improvement culture, and able to coach, motivate and engage a team
• Preferred requirements : *
• Experience working for a multi-site, multi-national manufacturing organisation

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus
• Car allowance
• Pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
• Share scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Shopping discounts

is a leading provider of sustainable fibre-based packaging worldwide, which is supported by recycling and paper making operations.

We play a central role in the value chain across sectors including e-commerce, fast moving consumer goods and industrials.

Through our purpose of 'Redefining Packaging for a Changing World' and our sustainability strategy, we are committed to leading the transition to the circular economy, while delivering more circular solutions for our customers and wider society - replacing problem plastics, taking carbon out of supply chains and providing innovative recycling solutions.

Our bespoke model, design capabilities and innovation strategy sits at the heart of this response.

Headquartered in London and a member of the FTSE 100, DS Smith operates in 34 countries employing around 30,000 people and we are a Strategic Partner of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Our history can be traced back to the box-making businesses started in the 1940s by the Smith family.