- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
The Area Manager of Operations is accountable for providing strategic and operational leadership across multiple manufacturing sites, ensuring optimal performance in safety, quality, service, cost, and people development.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop Plant Managers, ensuring alignment with business objectives while maximising utilisation of capital, assets, and human resources across the area.
- Ensure all sites consistently deliver against production plans, customer requirements, and financial targets while fostering a high-performance, continuous improvement culture.
- Act as a key link between strategic direction and execution at plant level.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives, implementing best practices and Lean methodologies to enhance efficiency, productivity, and operational consistency.
- Own area-level financial performance, driving cost optimisation, productivity improvements, asset utilisation, and capital investment priorities.
Requirements
- Engineering degree