Process Manager

Wienerberger AG; Greater Lincolnshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction materials provider is seeking a Process Manager at their Goxhill site in North Lincolnshire. The successful candidate will have supervisory experience in continuous manufacturing and a diploma in a relevant field. Key responsibilities include driving process improvements, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, and managing quality control systems. A competitive salary of up to £47,068 is offered along with numerous employee benefits, including bonuses and medical insurance.

Benefits

Pension scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays + holiday flexibility

Private medical insurance

Annual company bonus up to 8%

Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes

Life assurance (2x annual salary)

Qualifications

• Strong experience of health and safety best practices.
• Fit enough to perform physically demanding duties.
• Experience with Lean manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma principles beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvements across all production processes.
• Collaborate with QA on raw material and packaging trials.
• Ensure best product quality and site compliance with regulations.

Skills

Experience of working with a continuous manufacturing process

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to manage a team

Good communication skills

Education

Diploma in manufacturing, engineering, chemistry or lean/operational excellence

Tools

Quality control systems (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO 14001)

Job description

Come and join us as a Process Manager at our Goxhill site in North Lincolnshire!

wienerberger UK & Ireland is dedicated to empowering the construction industry to create a sustainable future for generations to come, through an extensive range of high-quality building products, systems, and solutions. We foster long‑term partnerships, support exceptional careers, and place sustainability at the heart of everything we do.

About the Role

Our factory in North Lincolnshire specialises in making roof tiles. As Process Manager, you will play a key part in helping to drive improvements in all areas. This dynamic role is suited to a hands‑on problem‑solver who will use technical expertise to contribute to the efficiency and reliability of our production processes.

Due to the responsibilities of this role, you must be willing to be flexible on working hours (to attend out‑of‑hour call‑outs including weekends) and travel around the UK (and possibly Europe).

Duties also include:

• Working as a key member of the site senior management team, the Process Manager is the site expert on all process related subjects including raw materials, production, concrete curing and quality/process control systems and procedures.
• Working collaboratively with QA TL on all raw material and packaging trials at Sandtoft and new material introduction. This includes ways of working for both online and in the lab process and procedures and performance.
• To drive process improvements and product cost improvement projects through to successful delivery, ensuring production performance is not affected negatively.
• Gain a full understanding of plant equipment and product types to help optimise changeovers and plant efficiency.
• To optimise the Plants process performance and systems to help deliver consistent, repeatable results.
• Ensure that best product quality is achieved at all times so that Customer satisfaction and service is never compromised.
• Focus on continual improvement and best practice to support the production department and drive positive change.
• Responsible for site wide compliance to COSHH regulations, including management of relevant data sheets etc.
• Work closely with production and maintenance departments to support collaborative improvement culture and good communication. This includes providing regular training of the site teams in process and quality.
• Adhere to all environmental, health and safety UK legislation and higher company standards where appropriate.

Hours of Work

Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4.30pm

About You

Safety is our biggest priority, so you’ll be committed to safe working and have strong experience of health and safety best practice. We will provide you with PPE and equipment to ensure you can undertake your role safely.

You’ll enjoy working in a busy environment where you can roll your sleeves up and get hands‑on and being flexible and able to adapt to the different daily priorities will enable the factory to continue to run efficiently.

As this role is sometimes physically demanding, you’ll be fit enough to perform your various duties.

You’ll also have

• Experience of working with a continuous manufacturing process
• Minimum qualification should be Diploma ideally in manufacturing, engineering, chemistry or lean / operational excellence
• Experience of quality control and testing and related systems, (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, BES 6001)
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills and able to run and facilitate problem solving and bottlenecking/enterprise kaizen team events
• Ability to manage a team
• Good communication skills with an ability to work with other people & departments

Desirable

• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma or World Class Manufacturing techniques

About our Benefits

• Salary up to £47,068 (depending on experience)
• Annual company bonus up to 8%
• Pension scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays & holiday flexibility (buy 4 extra days and sell up to 2 days) + additional volunteering day
• Private medical insurance – single
• Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes (including 24/7 online GP, discounts on counselling, mental health support service, get fit programmes)
• Health & wellbeing benefits which include dental cover, health cash plan and eye tests
• Financial advice/support available (including expert advice from our pension provider, and recommendations on savings & loans options)
• Employee discounts available with various retailers, gyms, and wienerberger products
• Life assurance (2x annual salary)
• Opportunity to join our Share Incentive Plan and our Employee Profit Participation Programme

About Wienerberger Ltd

Wienerberger Ltd is a provider of wall, roof and landscaping innovations, offering outstanding, sustainable solutions for new build and renovation. In the UK, we have head offices located in Cheadle and Doncaster, showrooms in London, Belfast and Surrey, with brick and roof tile production sites in Manchester, Co. Durham, Worcestershire, North Warwickshire, West Midlands, North Kent, Surrey and West Sussex.

So what are you waiting for?

Come and join wienerberger as a Process Manager and start growing your career with us today!

The closing date for this role is subject to change and may be closed earlier than advertised.