WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

In this role you will be a ccountable for achieving the Zero Harm plan for the plant and ensuring full compliance to health, safety and environmental standards. As well as being responsible for the delivery of the HSE strategic plan and actively involving all the plant in wellbeing activities , in addition you will:

• Be accountable for ensuring that all work is carried out in compliance with the required standard to ensure conformance to the engineering specification, and for promoting a product safety culture in the organisation.
• Drive and deploy the strategic plan for Zero Defects for the plant. Ensure cross-functional teams integrate to reduce risk and drive right first time. Ensure compliance to all relevant company legislative and technical policies and standards.
• Develop agreed operational and financial budgets for the facility and monitor and control the performance to ensure the budget is met.
• Develop and execute an effective load and capacity planning regime, balancing near and long term planning horizons in line with strategy. Manage plant bottlenecks and constraints to achieve flow through the plant. Drive plant inventory targets and eliminate slow moving WIP.
• Ensure that plant leadership cross functional team members receive training, coaching and development in order to carry out their roles effectively. Ensure that robust people plans (succession, recruitment pipeline) are in place for key roles in the business. Drive plant flexibility by optimising training plans across the plant.
• Ensure that relevant Production System minimum standards are fully deployed and sustained within the business in support of performance objectives. Coach the cross functional team to continuously improve. Ensures the seeking and sharing of best practice internally and externally.
• Inspire the manufacturing team to consistently deliver high levels of performance through facilitation, coaching and the demonstration of lean leadership behaviours. Motivate, delegate and empower team members to act and make their own decisions.
• Ensure that potential threats to the objectives of the plant are regularly and clearly identified, assessed and managed to acceptable levels, and that effective controls are maintained to keep threats at those residual levels. Ensure that robust Business Continuity Plans are in place for all key resources (including e.g. building & infrastructure, equipment, input materials, IT, people) and are refreshed and tested regularly.
• Optimises the performance of manufacturing assets in order to maximise facility productivity and meet current and future customer demand.
• Understand and lead the deployment and use of digital systems and processes to improve product cost, quality and performance. Be competent in the use of the tools to manage area and people performance and leads compliance to digital standards and processes. Ensures business strategy aligns to RR digital manufacturing standards and strategy. Communicate to the plant leadership team using digital tools, and able to communicate digital strategy and use of innovative technology.
• Facilitate the development and operation of the manufacturing engineering processes (Capability Acquisition, Product Introduction & Continuous Improvement) within the facility.

To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:

• Has Company wide outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
• Held significant manufacturing roles across a range of relevant functional areas, demonstrating breadth of experience and of implementing change at pace.
• Has a proven track record delivering improved operational performance in both favourable and unfavourable conditions, utilising cross-functional teams.
• Leadership of major transformation projects and an exponent of continuous improvement methodologies such as six sigma and lean (Black Belt accreditation and/or Lean Coach desirable but not essential).
• Ideally, but not essential, broad management experience in a high technology engineering industry.
• Attended higher education and leadership development programmes for senior or high potential leaders