Overview:
**Morgan Advanced Materials** is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.
We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.
The **Technical Ceramics** business of Morgan Advanced Materials engineers high performance functional and structural ceramic materials, components and sub-assemblies to address customer-specific technical challenges.
**Key Figures**: Revenue £1,114.7m (2023), ~8,500 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK. Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.
**Responsibilities**:
Directs and coordinates activities of production departments in processing materials and manufacturing products and ensuring cost, quality, and productivity requirements are met or exceeded. With the site EH&S manager, responsible for all environmental, health and safety compliance at the San Juan del Rio location. The San Juan del Rio Site is a multi-business facility, and this individual will have responsibility for teams in Site 1 & Site 2. The Operations Manager role will require strong cross-functional collaboration with the Commercial, Finance and HR functions. The selected incumbent will create a safe, compliant, collaborative, inclusive and increasingly efficient working environment with their Team in San Juan del Rio to support the Global Sales and Operations Plan for Technical Ceramics.
**Essential Functions**:
***EHS**
- Champion a strong Safety culture, by visual leadership, personal engagement, inclusion, and care.
- Responsible for the safe condition and operation of the facility's processes and machinery.
- Improve the efficiency of the site's operation while improving environmental KPIs.
**Quality**
- Responsibility over the quality of San Juan del Rio;s production, including dealing with internal and external customer complaints or reducing scrap and overall cost of quality.
- Ensure compliance with relevant certifications such as ISO standards.
**Production**
- Direct responsibility over the production of the site, including the leadership of all personnel involved in the manufacturing process, hitting production targets, on time with the shortest lead-times possible.
- Improve efficiency of our production lines, increase productivity and capacity utilization, and achieve operational or Continuous Improvement (CI) saving targets. Champion 'lean thinking' by creating a lean mindset and culture across the organization.
- Meet targets and requirements of the global Sales and Operations Plan, including volume and cost.
**Maintenance**
- Responsibility over the condition and operation of the facility's assets.
- Improve machine up-time, reduce frequency and severity of machine breakdowns.
- Invest focused effort to modernize our operations and improve the site's footprint.
**Leadership**
- Direct reporting responsibility over the production, quality, engineering, maintenance, CI, EHS teams and dotted line reporting over the HR, finance, and supply chain teams.
- Coach team members to enhance their performance and support their development.
- Cross-functional, cross-GBU, cross-regional collaboration with the rest of the organization.
**Additional Responsibilities**
- Reviews production orders or schedules to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, and specifications of products and scheduled delivery dates in order to plan department operations.
- Plans production operations, establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products.
Prepares operational schedules and coordinates manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meets specifications. Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays.
- Assures that production departments are provided with sufficient resources to meet quality, on time delivery, and safety goals, including appropriate staffing, materials, and machines
- Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and assures works comply with standards
- Assures the process for handling, packaging, storage and protection of materials, parts and products to preserve the conformity of product through delivery
- With the supply chain team, reviews, maintains and controls raw material inventory levels to support sales forecast
- Identifies training