Operational Start-Up Lead

Operational Start-Up Lead Cereal Partners UK
Bromborough, Wirral
Salary: Circa £43,000 plus companywide benefits
Full Time, Permanent

This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like for you.

At Cereal Partners UK we have established ourselves as one of the largest cereal manufacturers in the UK, making many well-loved brands. Our aim is simple: to provide high quality, nutritious and great tasting breakfast cereals. You could join our mission to create a nation of Cereal Lovers!

Position Summary

If you're ambitious and thrive in a fast-paced environment, you can go wherever you want with one of our Technical and Production careers. At Cereal Partners, we’re passionate about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place. In order to meet this demand and deliver against tough supply chain and customer service targets, our engineers strive to ensure our assets operate with the high efficiencies we expect whilst ensuring safety and food quality.
We are currently looking for an Operational Start-Up Lead to working within the CAPEX project team. As Operational Start-Up Lead you will ensure vertical start-up and sustained performance, by proper preparation and leadership of the start-up phase.

A day in the life of an Operational Start-Up Lead

• In project design phase, assisting in the User Requirement Specifications development by identifying local site operational constraints.
• Coordinate product/process permits & licenses with the project manager, quality manager and the regulatory team.
• Coordinate/manage the staffing and training process, e.g. conducting the TT&T program
• Coordinate the Raw/Pack/consumables materials availability and production planning during start-up phase
• Develop and manage master start-up plan for commissioning, qualification and verification phase, designed to achieve a vertical start-up with sustained performance.
• During project Start-up phase, coordinate/manage operational team and ensure product, equipment, line and site certifications are completed on time
• Maximise the reliability of the project on the long term, ensuring the right standards are in place
• Ensure a proactive and effective handover of the project to the operational team including the final Manufacturing dossier (MD).

What will make you successful

• Proven experience in a production leadership, as production manager or line supervisor
• Experience as with TPM AM or PM pillar
• Production planning process and project management knowledge
• Proven experience of manufacturing projects (e.g. product specialist, process engineer, application group)
• Highly developed ability to maintain a safe working environment through proper housekeeping with safety practices
• Highly developed ability to train, to coach people in collaboration with Factory HR
• Highly developed ability to ensure working relationships are harmonious and are focused on achieving common objectives.
• An ability to ensure the vertical start up following the early management methodology

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of CPW – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is Wednesday 13th April 2023.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At CPW, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!