Works Manager - Corby

Job Title: Works Manager – Corby

Department: Operations

Location: Corby (NN17)

Salary: £90,000 - £100,000 plus excellent benefits

Closing Date: Wednesday 13th November

We believe that our strength is not just in our steel but the diversity of our workforce. Our people make the difference.

A significant opportunity has arisen for an experienced and capable Works, Site or Plant Manager to take up overall responsibility for our large scale Tubes Manufacturing Site in Corby, East Midlands.

The Works Manager is a challenging and demanding role, offering the successful candidate a highly competitive remuneration package, reflective of the responsibilities and status of this senior leadership level position.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our operations at a time of growth and re-organisation of the site, with significant investments in a new mill and new warehouse to increase tonnage to 300 thousand tonnes per year while leading through a transition from the traditional to a modern, leaner manufacturing site.

Tata Tube Products are one of Europe’s leading pipe suppliers with a long and successful track record in the energy industry. We offer products and services that enable energy resources to be extracted, transported, processed and distributed all the way to the final consumer. Our products and services are specially packaged to meet our client’s needs whether they are in the Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG), Offshore Pipeline, Process Plant or Onshore Pipeline sectors of the industry.

Within this area, we are currently progressing through substantial period of growth, with ambitious plans to increase our presence in the market. With Quality and process improvements underway, this is a critical and pivotal role for the site, offering a challenging and rewarding opportunity with further growth opportunity for the successful candidate.

Make a tangible impact

As the Corby Work’s Manager, you will have responsibility for direct reports from Engineering, Manufacturing and technical (while fostering close links with supply chain & commercial) and circa 400 employees on a large 24/5 manufacturing site as well as holding full financial responsibility for the site with a turnover of circa £200 million.

In this capacity, you will be required to provide direction across all areas, ensuring company objectives are met and enabling new product development.

Your key responsibilities and accountabilities, will include, but not be limited to the following:

• To develop and embed a Lean Manufacturing / continuous improvement environment, in a complex culture, dealing with objections and a large work force.
• To develop relationships with Unions to improve employee engagement, resolve challenging issues and effect positive cultural change.
• To take overall responsibility for customer delivery, including direct interaction with customers as required.
• Taking accountability for the setting, management and spend of all budgets within the works area.
• Leading initiatives to maximise the financial performance and the value of all items of spend within the works area.
• Ensuring that CAPEX and revenue schemes are accurate, detailed, justified and prioritised in line with business timelines.
• Effectively managing a challenging maintenance schedule.
• holding accountability for QHSE strategy and ensuring all relevant and legislative standards are met by the operations.
• Responsibility for all Health, Safety and Environmental matters including responsibility for the management of major accident hazards and major accident prevention within their works area.
• Ensuring that the values, vision and direction of the company are clearly communicated and understood by the personnel within the works area.
• Ensuring that appropriate and effective training and development programmes are in place to encourage organisational and workforce learning.
• Accountability for ensuring that appropriate resources and systems are in place to effectively deploy and manage the competence assurance system.
• Accountability for the annual program to improve process capability, product quality and installation performance.
• Managing the projects and studies according to milestones and budgets as contracted in the annual plan.
• Developing a long-term business plan for the works.
• Taking initiatives to start projects in order to stretch the boundaries of the business.
• Maintains and builds global external network of similar works organisations.
• Accountable for increasing synergy between all the facilities with respect to operational practice, synergy projects and product mix.

A full job description is available upon request.

We see your potential

The ideal candidate will lead through strong leadership to mature an interdependent culture in order to achieve operational excellence.

To be considered for this opportunity, you will require:

• Degree-level education in a relevant Engineering or Technical discipline (MBA an advantage)
• Significant experience of successfully implementing and managing change in a complex environment
• Experience of working at Senior Leadership level within a Unionised environment
• Experience of holding full budgetary responsibility for a site with a turnover exceeding £100m
• In depth knowledge of Lean manufacturing/continuous improvement tools & techniques and able to evidence the successful implementation of these
• Able to evidence the ability to deal with complex challenges with positive results
• Experience in Heavy Industry
• Strong Leadership & communication skills
• Courage in decision making and management, with the ability to influence at all levels
• NEBOSH or equivalent H&S qualification
• High levels of energy, drive and resilience

Ready to make a difference?

For more information or for an informal discussion please contact: Charlotte Cassidy, Talent Acquisition Manager via c.cassidy@tatasteeleurope.com

 What we can offer you

Tata Steel UK offers their employees significant benefits packages. For this role, you will benefit from:

• A market competitive salary
• 35 days holidays per annum
• Annual Pay Review
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Healthcare Scheme
• Car Benefit
• One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)

We also have an extensive list of lifestyle benefits including free onsite parking at all of our sites, an employee assistance programme as well as Employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and also various local services.

Why us?

Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.

Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today.

Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045, to find out more about our journey click here: Stoves cooking less carbon – YouTube

To learn more about who we are and what we can offer our future employees, please click on the link to watch the following video: Tata Steel – A place you can thrive – YouTube