Factory Operations Manager

Job description / Role

Millar Cameron is an international recruitment consultancy, working extensively in the functional solutions and speciality chemicals industry internationally. We are currently representing an international market-leader part of the food value chain - who are currently recruiting for an Operations Manager for their manufacturing unit in Cairo.

This person will be responsible running the quality assurance, production and supply chain teams in Cairo; reporting to the Regional Operations Director.

Operations Manager, responsibilities:
- Manage the resources and facility to ensure that operations run effectively and efficiently.
- Build a safe and sustainable environment that meets local regulations and company guidelines.
- Build a quality-conscious environment, running a functioning quality system and a process of continuous improvement.
- Protect the companys assets, intellectual property, investments.
- Manage the cross-functional team to ensure that it is a high-performing organisation that works well as a team.
- Collaborate with the business in other locations to show best practices and lessons learned.

Requirements

- Bachelors Degree educated in either an Engineering or Business field
- 10 years of experience in a manufacturing environment preferably within food processing, food science, chemicals or pharmaceuticals
- 3 years of experience working in a management role
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Fluent spoken and written English
- Exposure to Theory of Constraints, Lean Manufacturing, TPM or Six Sigma would be an advantage
- SAP experience would be an advantage
- Experience working within an international and multinational organisation

You will be offered a profit share and incentive plan, on top of a competitive basic salary and benefits scheme.

About the Company

Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.

Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.

Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.