C&D Foods is one of Europe's leading own label pet food manufacturers producing a range of wet and dry pet foods.
C&D Foods has grown to become one of the industry's leading pet food producers.
C&D Foods has 9 production facilities across 7 Countries (Ireland, the UK, France, Denmark, Austria, Spain, and The Netherlands) and 2 sales offices located in Manchester and Italy.
C&D Foods' Headquarters is in Mullingar, County Westmeath.This role is to ensure C&D Foods operations can both meet its current objectives and develop a continuous improvement culture where we can improve the quality, output and OTIF (Customer Service Level) of the business while ensuring the structure of the business is managed to a standard. C&D foods and the wider ABP group is a progressive business that invests and promotes people who can add value to the business.
This successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn and develop in a fast growing business with the opportunity to grow within the business. Key Relationships: Develop an understanding of ensure a transfer of knowledge on successes across the site Lead the morning group production meeting and minute and publish the outcome of the meeting daily Work closely with the various site engineering teams Work with production to ensure the sites are staffed to the standard manning level Ensuring that Standard operating procedures are in place for all processes Ensure the standard of people training of the people is sufficient and that there is the correct documentation in place to ensure consistent training The role requires travelling to the site to understand the operation of the site first hand Ensure each site is operating to our quality standards and any issues are raised to the site General Manager and relevant Group Heads. Responsible for ensuring health and safety on each site is maintained in its operations Develop action plans with the site to ensure the above tasks are met Produce a weekly report on the state of every site and the action plan to turn any metrics that are red to green. Personal Competencies and Qualifications:The role requires a degree qualified self starter who can learn and manage a process end to end.
The key aspect of this role is to learn both the technical aspects of the process and be able to layer the understanding of people and how they integrate into the process.
The understanding of people will include the management of the people who operate the equipment and the supervisors and managers who oversee these people. The role requires weekly travel to various sites and the ability to work with the General Manager of each site and interface across the various sections of the business, particularly engineering and quality.