Site Manager

Are you a Plant/Site Manager who leads with humility, cares for and empowers their team, and is dedicated to making safety everyone's priority? Then this job is for you.

With excellent benefits, including private medical insurance, pension, salary sacrifice benefits, retail and gym discounts, free company products, and much more, you'll be a fool to miss this opportunity!

We are looking for a humble leader to assume operational P&L responsibility for our HQ Telford Site, employing c200 people. Responsible for Manufacturing, Health & Safety, Quality and Maintenance; with this broad remit you will lead on:

• Ensuring health, wellbeing, and safety are at the forefront of everyone's mind.
• Engaging the team to meet customer demand and required profitability.
• Continuing to drive operational excellence across areas such as Safety, Quality and Productivity.
• Identifying and realising opportunities for training and development, driving inclusive teamwork and an open and empowered culture.
• Developing relationships and creating a 'partnership' approach with the broader site and Group functions to ensure business objectives are met.

• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Free company products
• Free on-site parking
• Retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
• Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
• Free early access to pay scheme

To succeed in this Site Manager role, you will:

• Be of Degree calibre
• Have proven operational experience in leading large teams in a high-volume manufacturing environment
• Have strong organisational and planning skills to manage organisational change
• Have the ability to develop, analyse, and review numerical data to make decisions
• Have practical experience in utilising and driving continuous improvement tools and techniques.

Overall, the ideal candidate for this Site Manager role will be an accomplished leader with a hands-on approach and excellent communication skills; you will demonstrate agility, energy and enthusiasm, achieving success through inspiring teams to engage and contribute.

Join us as a Site Manager and champion safety, quality, and team success at Northwood. Apply today!

Northwood is a family-owned group of associated companies that provide the manufacturing, supply and transportation of paper hygiene and wiping products for both the away-from-home and consumer market.

Our mission is to be the market-leading partner of choice in the away from home tissue industry. One of only a small handful of companies in the UK market that is fully vertically integrated; Northwood is involved at each point in the supply chain, from raw material supply, tissue and towel manufacturing, end-user product converting, storage and transportation.

Our remit is huge, with a portfolio of products covering two key systems brands, professional wiping, commodity, consumer paper and private label. We sell into a distribution network spanning the UK, Ireland and Europe, which in turn service markets such as healthcare, hospitality, hotels, engineering, janitorial, catering and education.

We are a highly successful, award-winning and ambitious business that has grown from a humble paper sales business to a market leader employing over 800 colleagues, across 11 sites in the UK and Spain.

We differentiate ourselves by excelling in product quality alongside market-leading service and sales support.

At Northwood, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone is welcomed and respected. We strive to promote a workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages individuals to express their opinions and beliefs. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all.