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Plant Manager Jobs in Newburn, UK at Stannah – Join Our Team! Stannah have an exciting opportunity for a Plant Manager to join the UK Manufacturing team based at Newburn, reporting to the Director of Operations. This role will involve leading the safe, efficient, and high-quality operation of our UK manufacturing facility. Which will cover fabrication, painting, finishing, and associated support functions. As the Plant Manager you will have full responsibility of the plant, ensuring alignment with Stannah group strategy, standards, and the delivery of the Stannah strategic Blueprint. As the Plant Manager, you will work 37 hours a week, Monday to Thursday 08:00 to 16:45, and Friday 08:00 to 13:00, with flexibility required to support business and plant needs. This role is a permanent position offering an excellent opportunity to play a key role in driving operational excellence within a respected, family-owned business. You will be required to travel regularly between our HQ site in Andover, Hampshire and occasionally to our site in Czech. This is a great opportunity for an experienced manufacturing manager with strong leadership, communication and proven people management skills. It is essential to have a safety-first mindset, be passionate about people development, quality, and continuous improvement. Within this role you will act as the senior site leader in a unionised environment, maintaining constructive relationships with recognised trade unions to support safe, productive, and sustainable operations. Support consultations, communication, and change processes in line with collective agreements, company policies, and UK employment legislation. To be successful as the Plant Manager, it is essential that you have previous experience leading operations within a regulated UK manufacturing environment. Experience in metal fabrication, rail systems, or coating, painting operations would be highly desirable. Plant Manager Responsibilities • Act as the site safety leader, embedding a safety-first culture and ensuring compliance with UK HSE legislation and internal policies., • Oversee day-to-day manufacturing operations, ensuring production schedules, quality standards, and KPIs are achieved., • Lead and develop site leadership, operators, and support teams, fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and engagement., • Champion Lean Manufacturing, 5S, and Continuous Improvement initiatives across the plant., • Manage budgets, cost control, asset maintenance, and performance reporting to senior management., • Be a direct report for the Production Manager and a dotted line to our Maintenance, Quality and Engineering Managers across Newburn and Andover. Please see the full job description here: Plant Manager Job Description Plant Manager Requirements • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering (or equivalent experience) desirable, • Extensive leadership experience in a UK manufacturing environment., • Strong knowledge of UK health, safety, and environmental legislation., • Proven ability to manage budgets, lead cross-functional teams, and drive continuous improvement. Additional information If you have previous experience working as a Plant Manager, Manufacturing Manager, or Operations Manager and are looking for a Plant Manager job in Newburn, please click the “apply now” button or contact us for further information. Benefits Include: • Market Aligned Salary, paid on a monthly basis, • Profit Share Bonus Scheme, paid to all employees every quarter. Based on Group Company profits, • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, • Holiday scheme to buy extra days’ annual leave, • Pension Scheme. Matched contribution/salary sacrifice, • SimplyHealth Cash Plan. Allows you to claim towards health costs. For example, dental, optical, physiotherapy, chiropody treatments and more, • Life Assurance Scheme, • Long Service award scheme, with holiday benefit, • Company Benefits Discount Rewards Scheme. Includes shop discounts, hotel discounts, days out, and more, • Employee Assistance Programme. A workplace initiative to support and enhance well-being, • Enhanced maternity and paternity provision, • Company Funded LinkedIn Learning Account, • Company Vehicle, • Management Bonus

senior Production Manager ( Multi Sites across the UK ) Home Based Manchester / Sheffield / London / Bristol/ Crawley / Hull / Liverpool Fantastic Salary and benefits ( car / generous bonus / pension / holidays ) Chemical / Petrochemical / Oil&Gas / COMAH / LNG / LPG / Terminal COMAH / Nitrogen Ammonia Refinery What you will enjoy doing • You will lead operations across multiple sites as a key member of the Operations Leadership Team, ensuring customer needs and business objectives are met, • You shall guarantee all site activities are performed safely and effectively, fully compliant with legislative and management system frameworks including Health and Safety at Work Act, COMAH Regulations, COSHH, and ISO standards, • You will drive an active safety agenda, engage with Safety Committees, and foster a culture of zero lost-time accidents and ultimately no accident book entries, • Take responsibility for implementing safety and loss control programs, ensuring high standards of housekeeping and operational discipline across all managed areas, • Furthermore, you will uphold cylinder and product quality conformity by ensuring rigorous quality control checks in line with ISO 9001 procedures and Standards while delivering the highest levels of production and test shop performance across aligned locations, • Additionally, develop strong employee communications and engagement strategies to build a motivated and inclusive workforce, plan and direct maintenance activities to ensure facilities meet output and quality objectives safely and within budget, and ensure operational plant is fit for purpose through proactive maintenance and coordination with internal and external service providers, • Lead the change agenda in safety, growth, service, and quality, sharing best practices to enable replication across sites, while managing costs effectively by setting plans and budgets, actively monitoring monthly performance to achieve forecast targets and reductions What makes you great • Degree in an appropriate engineering or science discipline or HNC /HND min, • NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent, • You have comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, gas production technologies, and pressure systems, and proven ability to ensure regulatory compliance with MHRA, PSSR, COMAH, HAZOP, and ISO standards, • You are an experienced transformational leader with talent development skills, stakeholder engagement expertise, and the ability to operate in unionised environments while driving safety leadership in hazardous gas handling and production optimization, • You will demonstrate resilience under high-pressure environments, clear and persuasive communication skills to align stakeholders with strategic goals, and strong financial acumen with experience in cost control and CAPEX case development and delivery, • Furthermore, you have a track record of implementing lean practices and continuous improvement initiatives to optimize plant and workforce productivity

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