Crest Nicholson has been building new homes for 50 years and is firmly established as a leading developer with a passion for not just building homes, but creating vibrant sustainable communities.

Crest Nicholson Midlandsare recruitingfor aSite Manager to join their team at ourMonksmoor Parkdevelopment. This is anexciting new development of 2to 4 bedroom homes coming soon to Daventry.

Great care is always taken to ensure the end product is one of quality, sustainability and innovative design. A career with Crest is both challenging and rewarding, and with large investments currently being made to drive learning and development, as well as fantastic national growth plans, now is a great time to join us.

The successful candidate will be reporting into the Build Manager, and will be responsible for the speedy, accurate and cost-effective planning of developments sites. In this role you are expected to gain a detailed understanding of the technical site and design requirements,identify, and onboard suitable sub-contractors and ensure construction materials are resourced and stored safely and correctly on the site.

Each element of the scheme will need to adhere to strict quality standards, and you will be conducting critical checks across the scheme, ensuring setting out drawings, road positions, and each dwelling is accurately transferred from concept through to construction and completion. You will also be managing the budgets, whilst never compromising on quality and Health and Safety, immediately bringing any issues to the attention to the Build Manager.

Successful candidates will have the following skills:

Strong Site Management experience with a main housebuilder

Proven experience multi-phase, mixed-use projects

Excellent time management and able to manage multiple subcontractors on site

Commercially and financially aware of costing and sustainability

Strong negotiation skills

Able to build strong working relationships

Strong team and people management skills

Motivated and able to engage with all levels of staff; colleagues and third parties

Excellent communication skills

Health and Safety focused with the ability to naturally promote a safe working environment

In return, our benefits and package include:

Competitive salary and bonuses

Company car/allowance

Share save scheme

28days annual leave

Private pension of up to 12.5%

Private healthcare

Cash plan options

Retail and gym discounts

Company parties/events

We seek to be an ethical and progressive employer which encourages a culture of openness, creativity and continuous professional development and which rewards the effectiveness and loyalty of our employees as an equal opportunities employer. If you are applying to work at Crest Nicholson, we will ask you to supply us with sufficient personal information to help us process your application. To learn more about what personal information we will need to process and why, please refer to our recruitment privacy notice which can be found on the Crest Nicholson website under ‘Recruitment Privacy Policy’.

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• Establish and maintain a safe working environment for all employees, contractors and visitors and any other person required to attend site.
• To ensure that the most cost-effective methods of operations are used whilst achieving the level of service to our customers.
• Ensure that the Rhenus warehouse is adequately staffed to manage all areas to meet the customers SLA’s and KPI’s.
• Ensure that site stockholding and operational work areas are created to maximise the site capacity.
• Maintaining accuracy and integrity of Inventory both systematically and physically.
• Manage relevant stocktakes and audits within the agreed deadlines.
• Accountable for ensuring any new initiatives or projects are implemented and the expected deliverables are achieved.
• Monitoring and controlling assets within the relevant site.
• Support and implement continuous improvement programs throughout the operations.
• Development of colleagues to ensure the continued performance and growth of the business.
• Ensure employee communications are maintained including but not limited to; team brief conducted to the across all shift patterns & appropriate interactions with direct reports.
• Drive high levels of employee engagement.

• 2 years' experience as an Operations Manager within Distribution/Logistics 
• IT skills, including Advanced Microsoft / Excel.
• The ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Experience of implementing processes.
• Ability to work in a fast paced people environment.
• Great communicator.
• Positive attitude & drive results.
• Teamwork and Information Management.
• Process improvement, innovation
• CI & 5S

If you’re an experienced leader looking for a new challenge in a growing business, then look no further!

We have an exciting opportunity available for a dedicated General Manager to join our team based in Corby.  This is a key role within the senior management team at Advanced and heads up the operation at the Eismann Way site.

Advanced Supply Chain Group offer a complete end to end supply chain service, from source to shelf, covering all aspects of supply chain management, global logistics, fulfilment, and value-added services, allowing our customers to maximise the opportunities that exist in today’s technology-enabled marketplace. Using our unique intelligent supply chain model, we design innovative solutions to complex challenges, unlock new opportunities, and speed up and streamline existing processes by removing complexity from the supply chain. It all adds up to providing a service that is “Better, Faster, Cheaper” than our competitors.

Responsibilities of our General Managerwill include:

- Leading the Operation through site management teams

- Delivering a best-in-class service to our customer whilst having a commercial focus and achieving operating profit targets  

- Leading continuous improvement of site

- Engage, retain and develop key employee resources across the site

- Ensure delivery of business KPI’s agreed jointly with the Business Operations Director

- Steer and facilitate the personal development of individuals within the team

- Anticipate and react to changes in customer’s businesses in conjunction with the Business Operations Director.

- Assessing operational capabilities and ensuring actions are implemented that meet Company and customer needs across both P&L’s

- Developing and implementing initiatives to improve operational processes, aligned to our growth strategy

What we are looking for in our ideal General Manager:

- Experience in leading management teams with excellent people management skills    

- An excellent functional knowledge and experience of warehouse logistics knowledge or production environment knowledge and best practice techniques    

- The ability to analyse data to identify root causes of variability operational failures

- Experience in defining improvement projects which satisfy our customer requirements

- Experience of delivering productivity gain in multiple different environments 

- Up to date knowledge of the latest operational tools

- Experience of a similar role that uses technology to make a difference- Significant logistics, warehouse and production experience

- In depth knowledge of a WMS and understanding/manipulation of the data provided to drive data backed decisions.  

- Excellent stakeholder management skills

- High levels of Commercial awareness

- Change Management Practitioner, Lean and Six Sigma Black Belt qualifications – preferred

Benefits of joining us as a General Manager:

- Staff discounts – up to 30% discount with ASOS (after 6 months employment)

- Employee of the month awards (£50 Love2Shop vouchers)

- Seasonal fun events & give away

- Free tea and coffee

- Onsite parking

- Refer a friend scheme

If you have the skills and experience to become our General Manager, click apply now – we’d love to hear from you!

Trading since 1989, e.surv Chartered Surveyors is the UK's number one residential surveyor and the largest provider of property risk expertise and residential surveying services. To put it into numbers, we complete more than one property inspection every 12 seconds and employ over 600 surveyors from Land’s End to John O’Groats and Northern Ireland. This gives us the flexibility to offer nationwide coverage combined with invaluable local knowledge. 

We're part of the LSL Property Services PLC Group, which includes household names Your Move and Reeds Rains, as well as the mortgage network PRIMIS. We work with lenders, intermediaries, social housing entities and estate agents in addition to private customers. 

We have a newly created opportunity here at e.surv Chartered Surveyors, working within our Risk & Governance team. Reporting to the Risk & Governance Director, the Business Resilience Manager will be integral in contributing to the on-going development and maintenance of the Business Resilience Framework.

The responsibilities of the role include:

• Contribute to the on-going development and maintenance of the Business Resilience Framework, ensuring a consistent approach and execution across all functions and locations.
• Collaborate with business functions in completing annual Business Impact Assessments (BIA) and development of Business Continuity Plans (BCP). Provide independent challenge to the assumptions of each 1st line business function.
• Conduct threat risk assessments to help estimate the likelihood and impact of a range of industry, location and business specific resilience risks including third party and ‘supply chain’ risks. Focusing planning and testing on the more likely / higher impact incidents that the Business may be exposed to.
• On-going support of the Business exercising programme, considering a range of scenarios to test arrangements and recovery capabilities. To include third party suppliers and recovery & resilience arrangements.
• Evaluate 3^rd Party risks and implement a programme designed to assess and monitor supplier resilience.
• Write reports to summarise testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Provide support to management, as requested, when a disruptive event, incident and/or crisis occurs.
• Contribute to resilience and crisis management training.
• Support the development and implementation of an on-going training and awareness programme to ensure that knowledge is developed and proportionate, based upon the needs of the Business.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and monitoring of internal indicators and metrics which enable the business to understand and improve its performance and assess its efficiency and effectiveness.
• Collaborate across the business, to continually identify the operations, processes and technologies required in building and maintain optimal recovery plans/arrangements.
• Occasional travel will be required based on business demands.
• Understand current and developing operational resilience issues and drivers, taking reference and direction from regulations, standards and good practice.

Why join us?
As one of the UK’s leading providers of residential property risk, valuation and surveying services, e.surv has been at the forefront of the residential property market for nearly 30 years. We lead the way when it comes to technology, customer service, training and putting our employees first. To put it into numbers, we complete one mortgage valuation every twelve seconds.

e.surv is part of the LSL Property Services PLC Group which includes household names Your Move, Reeds Rains and the mortgage broker network Primis.

We employ over 500 surveyors who provide mortgage valuations for UK lenders and RICS HomeBuyer reports, RICS Condition Reports, RICS Building Surveys and independent valuations for house buyers across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

We are looking for an energetic self-starter with the ability to work under pressurised conditions and experience of building relationships with Stakeholders and third parties. If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Matthew Siddons from our recruitment team on 07794392858.

PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENING - All of our employees have to pass a Criminal Records Disclosure and Credit Referencing Process in order to work with our lender clients, if you are unsure on this, ask the team and we'll be happy to explain the process.

• Fulfillment of customer orders
• Manage staff, prepare work schedules and assign specific duties
• Determine staffing levels, in line with financial budgets, interview and train new employees
• Establish and implement operational objectives and procedures in line with the overall business objectives
• Promote and implement a Lean culture throughout the operation
• Identify and implement continuous improvements within the operations processes to reduce costs, improve quality and reduce stock holding
• Implement NPI process from design and product management to assembly
• Control materials in the warehouse in collaboration with other functions within the business
• Coordinate and Manage PI process
• Effect use of ERP system - works order processing, BOM maintenance
• Ensure compliance with company policy and good practice with regards to quality (ISO9001) and environmental practices (ISO 14001)

• Experience in a high variety/ low volume, labor intense manual assembly environment, demonstrating both flexibility and effective decision making whilst working under pressure in a fast moving changeable environment
• Highly motivated - dependable, reliable with a positive, proactive and innovative approach to tackling and solving problems, with commitment to the organization and its objectives
• People management skills, with the ability to manage, motivate and mentor, improving efficiency throughout the operations team
• Proven ability to manage change and contribute effectively to developing the future organization
• Previous experience in a SME with similar levels of staff, taking responsibility for all elements of people management in a diverse organization
• Mature leadership skills to maintain the positive culture in the work environment
• Lean Manufacturing - ability to identify opportunities and implement lean techniques
• Experience in the managing and engendering a positive health & safety culture
• Experience of managing Quality ISO9001, Environmental ISO14001 systems
• Experience of operating MRP systems
• Computer Literate, with focus on Excel with the ability to utilize this module for effective analysis when required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Degree, Diploma or National Certificate related to Operations Management and also Health and Safety qualifications would be desirable., but not essential with appropriate experience

Job Profile

Trading since 1989, e.surv Chartered Surveyors is the UK's number one residential surveyor and the largest provider of property risk expertise and residential surveying services. To put it into numbers, we complete more than one property inspection every 12 seconds and employ over 600 surveyors from Land’s End to John O’Groats and Northern Ireland. This gives us the flexibility to offer nationwide coverage combined with invaluable local knowledge. 

We're part of the LSL Property Services PLC Group, which includes household names Your Move and Reeds Rains, as well as the mortgage network PRIMIS. We work with lenders, intermediaries, social housing entities and estate agents in addition to private customers. 

We have a newly created opportunity here at e.surv Chartered Surveyors, working within our Risk & Governance team. Reporting to the Risk & Governance Director, the Business Resilience Manager will be integral in contributing to the on-going development and maintenance of the Business Resilience Framework.

The responsibilities of the role include:

• Contribute to the on-going development and maintenance of the Business Resilience Framework, ensuring a consistent approach and execution across all functions and locations.
• Collaborate with business functions in completing annual Business Impact Assessments (BIA) and development of Business Continuity Plans (BCP). Provide independent challenge to the assumptions of each 1st line business function.
• Conduct threat risk assessments to help estimate the likelihood and impact of a range of industry, location and business specific resilience risks including third party and ‘supply chain’ risks. Focusing planning and testing on the more likely / higher impact incidents that the Business may be exposed to.
• On-going support of the Business exercising programme, considering a range of scenarios to test arrangements and recovery capabilities. To include third party suppliers and recovery & resilience arrangements.
• Evaluate 3rd Party risks and implement a programme designed to assess and monitor supplier resilience.
• Write reports to summarise testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Provide support to management, as requested, when a disruptive event, incident and/or crisis occurs.
• Contribute to resilience and crisis management training.
• Support the development and implementation of an on-going training and awareness programme to ensure that knowledge is developed and proportionate, based upon the needs of the Business.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and monitoring of internal indicators and metrics which enable the business to understand and improve its performance and assess its efficiency and effectiveness.
• Collaborate across the business, to continually identify the operations, processes and technologies required in building and maintain optimal recovery plans/arrangements.
• Occasional travel will be required based on business demands.
• Understand current and developing operational resilience issues and drivers, taking reference and direction from regulations, standards and good practice.

Why join us?As one of the UK’s leading providers of residential property risk, valuation and surveying services, e.surv has been at the forefront of the residential property market for nearly 30 years. We lead the way when it comes to technology, customer service, training and putting our employees first. To put it into numbers, we complete one mortgage valuation every twelve seconds.

e.surv is part of the LSL Property Services PLC Group which includes household names Your Move, Reeds Rains and the mortgage broker network Primis.

We employ over 500 surveyors who provide mortgage valuations for UK lenders and RICS HomeBuyer reports, RICS Condition Reports, RICS Building Surveys and independent valuations for house buyers across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

We are looking for an energetic self-starter with the ability to work under pressurised conditions and experience of building relationships with Stakeholders and third parties. If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Matthew Siddons from our recruitment team on 07794392858.

PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENING - All of our employees have to pass a Criminal Records Disclosure and Credit Referencing Process in order to work with our lender clients, if you are unsure on this, ask the team and we'll be happy to explain the process.

You’ll need to be a passionate and challenge orientated individual who can take the lead in delivering change and excellent results in a fast-paced environment.  

You will be a key member of the Atherstone site as you’ll be driving and developing continuous improvement and implementing lean manufacturing techniques within an FMCG environment.

• Define stretching site financial BI targets, aligned with the divisional % Cost of Goods targets defined in current/next year budget and longer term strategic plans
• Work with site and divisional colleagues to develop a pipeline of achievable BI initiatives capable of delivering the agreed BI targets
• Manage delivery of BI initiatives within agreed timescales and financial targets, leveraging the skills/resource of the local BI/Operations team and negotiating additional skills/resource/ capital from additional stakeholders (Site/Division/Group/ Externals) where necessary
• Manage site deployment of the Greencore Manufacturing Excellence (GME) Programme to full maturity, using Process Confirmations to measure and drive adoption.  Be a strong GME advocate for your site.
• Build site capability to deliver business improvements through coaching GME principles and tools – primarily with the BI team and extending to relevant colleagues from Operations and other functions
• Promote full adoption of the GME KPI suite and Performance Management Process (PMP) and their role in identifying future BI opportunities
• Be an active member of the Greencore BI community, contributing to and drawing from best practice standards to help drive coordinated group-wide performance improvement
• Identify and coach/develop suitable non-BI colleagues into a BI-ready talent pool from which future BI recruits can be sourced
• Lead and direct the site BI team

Do you love working in fast paced environment? Do you love to drive change? Do you have experience working within business improvement? 

We are currently recruiting for a Business Improvement Manager based at our site in Northampton

You may not have heard of us, but we’re sure you’ve tried our products. We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 12,200 colleagues across 16 world-class manufacturing sites and 18 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals.

• The role would suit a degree qualified Manufacturing Manager or Business Improvement manager who is people orientated and has a previous track record of achieving goals through developing their teams, as well as delivering behavioural training and coaching.  Because we need you to develop a team, you’ll need to have experience of facilitating group problem solving sessions and be an effective manager.
• You’ll need to have a proven track record of leading changes and delivering results as a Lean practitioner, either as an external or internal consultant.  It would be great (although not essential) if you were Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified.
• We need you to have previous manufacturing experience in a recognised world class lean enterprise and be an effective leader of business process changes.You will need to be PC literate with fantastic communication skills and the ability to negotiate and develop your team
• Strong knowledge of chilled food processing techniques and methods
• Strong understanding of Engineering principles
• Experience of managing Projects (preferred) 

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.