Job Description

This role is responsible for leading safe, efficient, and high‑quality production operations while ensuring full compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements. The postholder will manage and develop teams, enforce safe systems of work, and drive operational performance to meet production, quality, service, and cost targets. The role promotes a strong continuous improvement culture, investigates and resolves safety and quality issues, reduces waste, improves efficiency, and collaborates closely with cross‑functional teams to ensure the smooth and effective running of site operations.

• The enforcement of safe systems of work and holding those below them in the management structure accountable for their health and safety performance.

• The provision of safe equipment, safe working environment and ensuring all employees/contractors are provided with and wear the appropriate personal protective equipment.

• Ensure employees are adequately informed, instructed, trained and supervised to safely carry out work for which they are engaged.

• Ensure a safe working environment, striving for zero recordable injuries in compliance with internal policies and external legislation, through the delivery of key enabling activities (e.g. Near Misses, Safety Observations, timely completion of actions). Ensure that safety and environmental incidents are fully investigated and the appropriate countermeasures established.

• Supervises staff to include hiring, training, evaluating performance, providing compensation recommendations, and determining disciplinary actions when necessary

• To manage a team to ensure that production operations are carried out in the most efficient manner whilst ensuring both internal and external customer requirements are satisfied.

• To ensure the promotion of a continuous improvement culture and high morale. To show consistent improvement in the areas of safety, quality, service and cost.

• To support the Operational Supervisors/Team Leaders with their direct reports to ensure they appropriately manage their teams and reward, motive and performance manage where appropriate.

• Deliver the production plan, on time and to the correct product quality.

• Working with the Quality team to ensure investigation of quality incidents and track action completion. Improve equipment and processes to eliminate quality loss. Deal and resolve product rework in a timely fashion.

• Ensure appropriate and accurate performance data is collated. Ensure manufacturing, filling and packaging efficiencies perform as budgeted and deliver improvements in these efficiencies through reduction of losses.

• Continually reduce waste, striving for a reduction towards a zero waste loss culture. Ensure accurate stock management.

• Ensure adequate manning levels to enable the factory objectives to be achieved. Manage performance within the team using the Sherwin-Williams policies and procedures to achieve optimal efficiency and operational performance.

• To ensure that Supervisors/Team Leaders and Operatives are actively involved in improvement initiatives.

• To prepare reports and participate in management and other routine meetings as required.

• To liaise with other personnel and departments to ensure the smooth running of the whole of Operations on site.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

1. FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required: Degree or relevant experience

2. KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, coaching and negotiating skills.

• A proven track record in managing change within a diverse environment.

• An articulate communicator both written and verbal.

• Ability to effectively build and manage relationships.

• Has enthusiasm and patience to develop others. Values strong team work.

• Numerically astute with the ability to analyse data and drive the appropriate action

• Professional and positive attitude with a high standard of work ethics

• A strong customer focus

• Passionate about sustaining standards as a base from which to improve. Produces dynamic and creative but appropriate improvement.

• Proficient at producing and presenting proposals and able to demonstrate objective analytical skills and business acumen.

• Hands on approach and attitude.

• Continuous improvement is a core value.

• Self-motivated

3. TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Advanced PC skills essential

• Strong financial and commercial awareness essential.

• Excellent excel skills

At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:

Life … with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being
Career … with opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution
Connection … with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities
It's all here for you... let's Create Your Possible

Eligibility to Work
You will need to provide proof of right to work. It is a condition of any offer of employment we make to you that you have the permission to work in the country for the role for which you are applying for.

Equal Opportunity Employer
An equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, colour, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, disability, age pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or any other protected characteristic prohibited by law.

Please be aware, Sherwin-Williams recruiting team members will never request a candidate to provide a payment, ask for financial information, or sensitive personal information like national identification numbers, date of birth, or bank account numbers during the application process.