Site Manager

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Job Title: Site Manager
Location: Tilbury, International/Other

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Your Role

An opportunity has arisen for a Site Manager based in Tilbury, Essex, UK. Reporting to the Operations Director the job holder will have overall operational responsibility for the Tilbury site and will provide Leadership & Management of all plant operations. Driving continuous improvement to ensure the safety of our people, products & processes is fundamental to this leadership role. The Site Manager will focus on maximising the operational effectiveness of the plant, driving efficiencies and meeting challenging cost targets. Engaging, empowering & developing people is key to success in this role!

Your Responsibilities

Promote and drive the safety culture and engagement of all employees to ensure the location meets its goals for safety and health, process safety, environmental stewardship and food safety, while achieving full compliance with the UK and ADM's corporate regulations and standards.
Lead the site production, maintenance & quality teams to deliver an efficient, cost effective manufacturing operation, continually driving manufacturing performance standards and delivering on Customer quality and service expectations.
Pro-actively engage and collaborate with the Operations Centres of Excellence (CoE's) to drive improvements in plant performance and alignment with regional & global operations strategies.
Drive the implementation of reliability programs on site to effectively manage the integrity and performance of all operational assets, to ensure the plant is able to operate safely and efficiently in line with the business needs.
Identify and champion capital investment projects to deliver operational improvements and support cost effective investment in the plant's asset base.
Champion and lead the locations commitment to ADM's Performance Excellence system to drive a culture of continuous improvement through colleague engagement in continuous improvement activities.
Effectively deploy strategic goals through all levels of the plant, ensure effective performance management is in place and employee development is focused on building skilled, competent and motivated teams to achieve discretionary performance.
Work collaboratively with all other functions to create an efficient overall supply chain and ensure a high level of customer service is offered at a profitable level for the business.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree (or ability to operate at this level) in the fields of Manufacturing, Engineering, Chemistry, Food Technology, or other related fields.

• Demonstrable experience as a departmental manager, preferably experience in food manufacturing or continuous process industries.

• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of safety, health, environment and food safety legislation, regulation and associated programs.

• Knowledge and experience of continuous improvement methodologies.

• Experience and understanding of reliability & engineering processes and techniques.

• Credible project management experience.

• Computer literate with various Microsoft packages.

• Proven inspirational leadership, coaching and mentoring skills.

• Strong communication skills and an excellent team player.

• Strong problem solving, diagnostic and analytical skills, with a results focused approach.

• Commercial and financial awareness.

Your Future Perspective

Challenging tasks, short decision-making processes and a high level of personal responsibility in a modern work environment with flexible work time models
Room for innovative thinking and growth with the possibility to manage your own career path.
A company culture which promotes continuous learning and diversity. To assist with this all colleagues are able to join our Women's and Multicultural Employee Resource Groups, and the ADM Pride Employee Network and the Young Professionals Network. As well as the company wide mentorship programme as mentor or mentee.
Excellent career opportunities in a world leading nutrition company.
An attractive remuneration including a variety of social benefits like subsidized health & fitness offers.
ADM is a company where managers and colleagues are encouraged to discuss and enable the flexibility that is needed to meet the demands of work and life
Additional benefits and support for maternity and paternity leave
ADM are an advocate of having a workforce who are aware of their mental health. In addition to our network of Mental Health First Aiders, all new starters to the business will be enrolled in 'Mental Health Aware' training within three months of joining the business.

Learn more about ADM at www.adm.com and www.4flour.co.uk.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and value diversity at our company to encourage a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge within our business. To assist with this the Company has established a UK Diversity forum to support participation of underrepresented groups in the work place. If you feel this job is for you, unlock your potential and apply now online informing us about your earliest possible entry date and salary expectation. By applying for this position, you agree to ADM's privacy notice.

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Job Post Date: 05/30/25