Site Manager - Trident Micro Nutri (12 mth FTC/Secondment Opportunity)

The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Site Manager - Trident Micro Nutri (12 mth FTC/Secondment Opportunity)
Location: Randalstown NI Site - Can be UK or Northern Ireland based, Hybrid
(If UK based would need to travel to NI 2 - 3 times per month)
Do you enjoy managing people and projects, do you have a passion for operational excellence, health & safety with a continuous improvement mindset? Are you looking for a varied role that will cover Operational Management, HSE, Customer Service, Supplier agreements and Project management and implementation?A key deliverable of this role will be to support on project based activity, such as ensuring the site is fit for purpose, partnering with our Health and Safety Lead to assess site degradation and future requirements.If you are hands on, tenacious and looking for your next challenge, this could be your ideal role!
Reporting to our Supply Chain Director and working with a small, friendly and knowledgeable team. Our Randalstown site is key in the Supply Chain of nutrition and feed additives both direct to farm and to businesses serviced by Trident Micro Nutri (TMN). In order to be the leading ruminant supplier, this business is quickly growing and so needs to be adaptable and flexible whist maintaining high service levels and customer experience at all times. The role of Site Manager is instrumental in maintaining key relationships and ensuring the overall safety compliance of the site.
This role is vital in ensuring we work seamlessly as ‘One Team’ across Supply Chain and Commercial. The role holder will be continually striving for optimised processes, procedures and implementing change across the business to ensure streamlined operations whilst influencing and engaging with stakeholders, suppliers and third parties.
What you'll be doing;
Support and lead on project based activity – such as ensuring the site is fit for purpose, partnering with our Health and Safety Lead to assess site degradation and future needs.
Driving for optimised and lean processes across the TMN Team, identifying and eliminating process wastes.
Ensuring that the site reaches and maintains H&S standards as determined by both UK legislation and AB Agri, supported by the H&S team.
Day to day management including employee development and performance management. Liaising with the HR function as and when necessary.
Ensuring that all site employees are trained and follow relevant procedures
Ensuring all site equipment is maintained to a safe standard, working with external suppliers to support where applicable.
Participate in Supply and Demand reviews as part of the Sales & Operations Planning processes.
Inventory management ensuring FIFO on all stored products, and expiry dates are monitored and working capital costs kept at optimum levels.
Customer relationship management – setting expectations, complaint resolution and product/delivery queries.
Liaising with hauliers to negotiate pricing, service level agreements and non-conformance issues.
Complaint resolution and supplier relationship management from a sales orders perspective
What you'll bring;
Previous people management experience with the ability to engage and motivate a team.
Previous experience within food, animal feed, operational management or agriculture would be highly beneficial.
A strong understanding of HSE ideally with IOSH Foundation training.
Previous experience of implementing change and project implementation.
Ideally Supply Chain experience of organising haulage between UK and Ireland.
Tech savvy, with previous experience working with ERP systems and other databases, such as the Microsoft package with the ability to draw on data to support change.
This position is ideal for someone who is autonomous in their work ethic, with a motivation to progress the business with a commercial mindset.
Ability to build influential relationships at all levels, both internally and externally with stakeholders, suppliers, customers and 3rd parties.
Performs tasks and make key decisions in a timeframe that is responsive and pro-active.
If you have some of the experience we are looking for and it sounds like the hands on, commercial and varied role you have been looking for, please don't hesitate to apply, we would love to hear from you!
About The CompanyRewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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