Job Description

Your Role

We are seeking an experienced Operations Manager to lead and continuously optimise all operational activities at a single site and its related depots. This role is responsible for ensuring efficient, safe, and compliant operations while driving site development within regional and country-level parameters.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the effective execution and continuous optimisation of site operations, steering all related operational activities

• Develop and propose short- and mid-term operational development plans for the site, aligned with country and regional objectives

• Prepare and oversee the implementation of local infrastructure investment plans and site maintenance programmes

• Plan, manage, and optimise site costs and efficiency levels, allocating financial and personnel resources within agreed limits

• Facilitate collaboration and act as a key point of contact between site functions and stakeholders

• Liaise with and represent the site to local authorities, external partners, and the local community

• Ensure effective site and facility management, maintaining compliance with safety, environmental, and operational standards

• Lead the site’s operations leadership team, ensuring high standards of people management, including oversight of temporary workers

Your Profile

• Proven experience in operations or site management within an industrial, logistics, or operational environment

• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience leading multidisciplinary teams

• Commercially minded, with the ability to manage budgets, resources, and operational performance

• Confident communicator able to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders

• Experience working with regulatory bodies and ensuring site compliance is highly desirable

Location: Sandbach, Cheshire.
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Brenntag provides equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees of all backgrounds and identities to create a workplace where difference is valued because it forms a resilient and more innovative organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.

Brenntag TA Team