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Works Manager

All About Us

Dragon Steel Services are part of Barrett Steel Limited, the UK’s largest steel stockholder with over 150 years of heritage. Family owned, the group is made up of 29 sites and holds over 120,000 tonnes of steel stock. Barrett Steel is committed to providing innovative and exceptional service by continuously investing in the latest processing machinery and materials handling equipment. Customer needs and community support are at the heart of everything, ensuring Barrett Steel is always your local steel stockholder.

All About the Role

Reporting to the Operations Director, the purpose of this role is to manage the team on site and undertake general site responsibility. Driving Health and Safety across the site fostering a culture of Safety first. A strong focus on operational excellence, , ensuring, and improving a level of productivity, profitability and efficiency which meets the site’s business requirements, whilst ensuring customer service levels stay high and sales targets are achieved. The hours for this role are Monday to Friday 8 am to 5pm, although flexibility will be required.

Specific tasks include:

• Oversee the day-to-day operations ensuring all goods are received, stock picks are carried out accurately, processing is complete and goods are delivered on time in full.
• Lead the team to meet & exceed productivity, operating cost, customer service and quality target levels.
• Load planning, goods-in, office management
• Ensure that all operations are conducted in a manner which fully complies with Health and Safety, Quality, Environmental and Group policies, and all relevant legislative requirements.
• Be adaptable & flexible in approach to work to meet operational requirements, developing a “safety-first” approach through standardised application of lean techniques.
• Ensure effective communication between operations, planning, and commercial functions to align customer demands with the constraints of operational capacity.
• Ensuring high customer service levels, personally working with customers to support the sales and commercial function of the business to help with achieving targeted growth.

We offer you

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Barrett Steel Pension
• Bonus potential based on KPI performance
• Life Assurance
• Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure
• Access to excellent health and wellbeing services
• Annual cycle To Work Scheme

All About You

You will have the passion, drive, and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way. An operational leader with a passion for people and operational excellence, with a strong safety first mindset, you will have the opportunity to work within a successful business as we look to take the site even further.

Essential Skills for the role:

• Have excellent leadership and man-management skills and be well-versed in managing and developing effective team-working.
• You must have an excellent working knowledge of H&S Leadership and ideally be IOSH trained (however not mandatory as training will be given).
• Previous experience in a similar role within an operational environment.
• Used to working in a flexible, results oriented, team environment, build good working relationships with the team, site, and wider business.
• Good computer skills with a strong commercial acumen

We provide a fantastic opportunity to work within a forward-thinking organisation that is respected as the UK’s leading independent steel stockholder.

Our people are the driving force behind Barrett Steel and we seek individuals who are passionate, hard-working, ambitious and demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude to help us build and develop the business.

Barrett Steel encourages innovative thinking and has an open door for people to lead and influence change.

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