Outage Manager

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We are committed to improving diversity and equality throughout Weetabix especially within our Recruitment processes.

We are always looking to enhance our current teams with diverse skills, experience, backgrounds and personalities ; so if your skills and experience look a little different and you believe you can add value to the role and/or Weetabix, then we would love you to drop us your CV or apply! No candidate will ever meet 100% of the desired qualifications, skills and/ or experience, but we are ambitious to attract the right talent for how we want our business to grow.

You might not be right for the role, yet but we are always looking for talented people!

Closing date: 02/01/2025

Interview process: Two Stage Interview Process - Virtual and On-Site

Working pattern: On-Site Position

The recipe!

The Outage Manager will take charge of overseeing and coordinating every element of scheduled outages and start-ups at Burton Latimer, ensuring seamless alignment among all key stakeholders. This role is pivotal in guaranteeing that all necessary and agreed-upon activities are executed with minimal downtime. The Outage Manager will focus on optimising outage durations, striving to enhance efficiency across the business during these critical periods.

• Provide leadership for Weetabix's outage management processes
• Ensure team possesses and develops necessary skills
• Establish planned downtime KPIs and meet monthly targets
• Develop processes to enhance outage management efficiency
• Support capital/revenue projects during outages
• Identify service delivery improvement opportunities through innovation
• Promote collaboration among outage stakeholders
• Coach and mentor the engineering team
• Implement and utilize lean tools and methodologies
• Optimize operations during outage windows
• Maintain key department KPIs (P&P, Safety, Quality, Engineering)

Requirements

Non-negotiables

• Proven leadership and management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development
• Experience managing complex projects
• Experience of maintenance engineering best practices TPM, RCM
• Relevant experience in the food, process or manufacturing industry
• Alignment to Weetabix values
• Are always curious to finding new ways to do business!
• Have the ability to demonstrate how you keep up to date in your field of expertise

Nice to haves:

• Engineering Degree, HND or equivalent experience demonstrated in manufacturing
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent Safety Qualification
• Experience of maintenance engineering best practices - TPM, RCM

Benefits

Check out our website for more information: https://weetabixfoodcompany.co.uk/careers/

Competitive Salary & Annual Flexible Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Double matched ER contributed pension scheme
• Annual Salary review
• Healthcare plan
• Access to 24/7 counselling service (in partnership with Grocery Aid)

Please Note: Our company policy is not to advertise salaries as we want to benchmark all candidates based on skills and experience that need to be evidenced upon application and screening.

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