Job description
Are you an exceptional people leader with extensive Operations experience within a manufacturing environment? We have an exciting opportunity to lead and develop a team of senior managers and more than 150 people to ensure safe and effective delivery against annual objectives and play a key lead role in our site transformation program. You will have oversight of a skilled multi-discipline Production team on a large, complex, and growing manufacturing site.
In collaboration with the Site Leadership Team, you will develop and drive an ambitious strategy focussed on our team, our ways of working and future site development. You will deliver against the site’s substantial investment plan, while managing your operation’s financial performance effectively.
At our Grangemouth Manufacturing Centre, we have approximately 375 employees and we are investing in growing and diversifying our operations, our ways of working and the capabilities of our teams to support our site growth.
Reporting to the Site Manager, you’ll have a key role on our Site Leadership Team and Global Manufacturing Network, with responsibility for delivering our strategic change programme at both a departmental and site level at a key strategic manufacturing operations centre.
Qualifications and required experience
- Extensive experience in leading production/operations within chemical production on a large scale, ideally on a top tier COMAH site.
- Proven track record in manufacturing excellence and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience of managing and developing large teams, controlling budgets and understanding financial tools and analysis.
- Proven track record in delivering change/transformation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a collaborative mindset.
- Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to Health, Safety, Environmental & Quality (HSEQ) practices and leads by example in all HSEQ-related matters.
- Proven leadership experience of mixed discipline groups.
- Extensive track record of managing a substantial, similar activity, at a management level in a relevant organization, and appropriate technical qualification
Syngenta Crop Protection is a leader in agricultural innovation, bringing breakthrough technologies and solutions that enable farmers to grow productively and sustainably. We offer a leading portfolio of crop protection solutions for plant and soil health, as well as digital solutions that transform the decision-making capabilities of farmers. Our 17,900 employees serve to advance agriculture in more than 90 countries around the world. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and is part of the Syngenta Group.
Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture.
Site Details
Syngenta's Grangemouth Manufacturing Centre is one of our two award-winning manufacturing sites in the UK. The site was founded in 1919 and today employs nearly 400 skilled people in a variety of roles that include manufacturing, engineering, scientific and production support. Our goal is to operate “safely, reliably and cost effectively” and to help growers protect their crops and increase their yield.
At Syngenta Grangemouth we have four plants dedicated to active ingredient (AI) manufacture, and one finished product formulation and packaging plant with the most recent facility opening in May 2010.
What we offer
- An extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance.
- Up to 31.5 days annual holiday.
- Flexible working – flexible start/finish times can be considered
- We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.
- A strong learning culture and a wide range of training and development opportunities, including support for externally recognized professional qualifications.
Syngenta has been ranked as a top 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Journal.
Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Learn more about our D&I initiatives here: https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion
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