• Manage the bottling operations to the highest possible standards, ensuring continuity of management, a sound control environment, and sharing of best practice.
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders and teams to harness strong cross functional relationships that ensure strategic alignment and manufacturing capability to support the commercial and marketing needs of the business.
• Ensure the smooth functioning of the dry goods warehouses, including e.g. material receipt, efficient handling, accurate stock control, minimal damage, or waste, and provide timely supply to bottling lines.
• Ensure the efficient functioning of the vat hall, including e.g., spirit intake, tanker unloading, regular stock audits, accurate chill filtering, and timely supply to bottling lines.
• Ensure the efficient functioning of the bottling operations, crewing appropriately with skilled employees across shifts, optimizing labour utilization, promoting teamwork, ensuring employee welfare, and executing efficient changeovers to produce cased goods to quality standards and production schedule.
• Control the trials and validation processes for NPD projects to ensure on time and on cost product launches.
• Ensure the efficient function of the cased goods warehouses, control the receipt and inspection of product, drive handling efficiencies, perform accurate audits, minimise damage or decay, provide correct shipping documentation, and accurately pick orders in line with dispatch schedules.
• Maintain close control over Dufftown productivity measures and associated financial costs to deliver the best possible outcome at the lowest possible costs.
• Optimise energy/utility usage across the site bottling operations, minimise all wastage and continuously improve environmental performance.
• Manage quality control across the department to ensure full compliance to quality specifications, identifying corrective and preventative actions and following through to timely completion.
• Deliver comprehensive support to maintenance programmes (PPM and reactive), working closely to ensure stock availability of critical spares and to identify and implement improvement areas.
• Ensure equipment is maintained in proper condition across all Packaging operations, including regular machine cleaning and tidy housekeeping.
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