Plant Manager : Bread And Buns

• Plant manager : Bread and BunsIn-Office Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• JOB TITLE PLANT MANAGER
• DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS
• RESPONSIBLE TO OPERATIONS MANAGER
• TRADING DIVISION ARF
• REVIEWED BY OPERATIONS MANAGER
• JOB PURPOSE To manage all aspect of the Bakery Production facility. Ensuring pre-determined
• standards relating to Health & Safety, Food Safety, Quality, GMP, Staff Welfare,
• Productivity and Costs/Budget Management are maintained. The role is the focal
• point on the business and as such responsible for ensuring a cohesive environment
• where all areas of the business work together to ensure factory/site performance
• remains in line with business expectations.
• JOB DIMENSIONS/DECISION MAKING
• AUTHORITY
• The job operates within defined procedures, plans, budgets, programmes, etc.
• The jobholder is expected to anticipate problems or needs and develop and
• deliver clear strategies and plans to resolving them.

• As one of the senior members of the Operations team the role oversees

  all aspects of the business which have an impact on the production

• facility, with all Manufacturing/Operations activities from goods-in and
• stores areas through to packing/dispatch.
• KEY RESULTS AREA

• Responsible for all aspects of Health and Safety in the facility;
• Lead the Quality function to reduce FS and Quality complaints through

introduction of a range of Customer focused QA/TQM/Internal audit tools

and techniques

• Ensure no Major external audit compliance issues
• Improvement in Site Not-Right First Time Quality;
• Adherence to Housekeeping standards through 5S process and

Food Safety/Hygiene Team;

• Adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices for the entire

Operations facility;

• Performance Management of all direct reports to meet site business plan;
• Control and effective use of Direct and Indirect labour to meet

production programme requirements and customer expectations;

• Ensure Regular communication to site teams on Production Performance

and KPI through Area Process Leaders;

• Improve communication and performance effectiveness to Safety,

Production, Quality and Maintenance teams on KPI achievements;

• Delivery of production plan budgeted Attainment to Plan;
• Achievement of Site OEE target;
• Manufacturing Costing/Variance to Standard Cost in the production

areas;

• Identification and delivery of Total Lowest Cost improvement projects;
• Manufacturing Costing Variance to Standard Cost;
• Direct Labour Efficiency for site;
• Increase in Unit Per Man Hour;
• Decrease in Cost Per Unit/COGs;
• Reduce Energy and Utilities consumed per saleable tonne;
• Improve Material Losses and giveaway;
• Lead the maintenance function to Reduction in Downtime

through a rage of preventative and predictive maintenance

techniques, CI and Improvement teams;

• Reduction in Operational key losses, including Changeover

times;

• Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Techniques to production

operations;

• Ensure Internal Supplier / Customer relationships and information flows are

improved to deliver commercial expectations through the production

process.

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS Essential

• Min 5 years leading a short shelf life site >100 staff
• Degree level (or equivalent) qualification in an engineering or food

technology/Baking discipline

• IOSH Managing Safely.
• Food Safety Level 3 (intermediate/supervising)
• HACCP Level 2
• Internal auditing

• Black or Green Belt in Six Sigma.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/TRAINING/EXPERIENCE

• Proven track record of senior experience gained within a manufacturing operation utilising Continuous Improvement / Lean Manufacturing techniques, ideally with Baking, short-shelf life food preparation or FMCG Production experience;
• Leading from the front, hands on proven capable leader and strong

people manager;

• Excellent Regular attendance in the factory front line and office,

split on average 70/30%

• Communicator at all levels with strong interpersonal skills;
• Numerate with the ability to analyse information to support and present

their decisions;

• Ability to challenge and drive business improvement from the bottom up;
• Experience of Lean Manufacturing Systems and implementation

Continuous Improvement training and experience;

• Leading NPD/EPD and capital projects;
• Ability to problem solve and drive RCA and effective actions

management;

• Customer focused and commercially aware;
• Ability to work under pressure within a high performance, fast moving

environment;

• Self confident and decisive;
• Open to new ideas, technologies and willing to challenge the status quo.

  PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS Travel: Occasional attendance at external courses and other sites as required,

• sometimes including overnight stays
• Work pattern: General day-shift hours between 08.00 and 18.00 Saturday to
• Thursday – attendance at site is required outside these hours depending on
• business needs
• Location: Sites across KSA (Riyadh Rabigh, Jeddah)
• Conditions: The factory can be hot and humid in the summer
• Employment TypefulltimeExperience Leveldirector-vpWork Experience (years)5 - 12 YearsAnnual Compensation SAR 35,000 - 40,000EducationBachelors DegreeSkillsNo of Openings1
• Skills: food safety,customer,manufacturing,operations,baking,management,maintenance,bread and buns