Site Leader (Operations)

Job Title:                  Site Leader (Operations)

Reports to:               Head of Operations, Europe (Ingredients)

Location:                  Avila - Spain

Benefits:                  Generous salary,  holiday allowance plus bonus on offer with this role

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Ornua (meaning “new gold”) is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, proudly bringing the unique taste of Irish dairy to the world for over 55 years.

Are you an Manager of an Operations fuction looking for the challenge of taking a mission driven organisation to its next level of success? Are you looking for an opportunity within a state-of-the-art facility where you can truly make an impact?

Ornua is actively seeking an Site Leader to join our Senior Management Team as we continue our growth trajectory.

Why Ornua?

• Ornua operates from 10 business units worldwide, including 16 production facilities, and has sales and marketing teams working in-market across all four corners of the globe.
• The Group is structured across two divisions: Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients.
• Our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business as a purpose and values-led organisation, creating value for Irish dairy farming families.
• Our Values lie at the core of everything we do. Our five values encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care, and Achieve Great Things Together.
• We invest in our people and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Career Progression including Global Mobility opportunities.
• Comprehensive Benefits with regional specific offerings.

Why This Role Is Valuable:

Responsible for leading short- and long-term performance of the Avila site, to include health and safety, manufacturing, quality, engineering, and continuous improvement. Full responsibility for operational delivery in meeting the needs of the customer. The role will involve creating, delivering, and championing a continuous improvement and quality culture, and requires a natural leader who can implement a culture of operational excellence.

What You Bring to The Role:

• Possess strong leadership, communication, planning, people leadership and organisation skills.
• Exposure to and knowledge of Operational Excellence techniques would be a distinct advantage.
• Ability to drive performance, seeking root cause to business problems and design and deliver practical solutions to resolve.
• Bring a sense of urgency to situations where needed, demonstrate an active approach, be willing to get involved in order to increase the pace and achieve goals and objectives.
• Drive change through personal actions, inspiring others to do the same.
• Remain rational when dealing with others, work within organisational requirements, be systematic and factual when dealing with colleagues and manage conflict in a way that allows the achievement of a suitable outcome.
• A strong role model of the Ornua values and behaviours

• 5+ years of relevant operations management experience, together with significant commercial and technical exposure.
• Experience of successfully leading within an operational environment.
• Experience of budgetary processes, cost centre ownership and cost control.
• Demonstrate high levels of commercial acumen and a strong desire to understand and deliver to customer requirements.
• Demonstrate a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism.
• Evidence of working collaboratively within complex environments, prioritising team wins over personal gains.
• The ability to positively contribute to strategic business decision-making as part of a senior management team.
• Ability to thrive on ambiguity/change and be able to use a flexible approach to deliver solutions in challenging situations.
• Excellent communicator at all levels with an established and wide network of contacts
• Curious, inspirational, creative

Ornua has ambitious growth plans and we’re building a team to help enable and accelerate that growth. We are looking for people who share our values, are curious, forward-looking, take ownership and work together to build a future for themselves and Ornua.

To learn more, please visit Ornua at www.ornua.com