Unit Manager

Overview

Lead and manage unit operations to meet safety, environmental, cost, quality and service goals.

Key Responsibilities

• regulatory compliance
• production ops
• resource planning
• team leadership
• data analysis
• operational control

Tasks

-Compliance: Ensure all statutory legislation and company regulations are adhered to with respect to all operational activities. -Operations: Achieve optimum production levels in line with commercial activity at the lowest operation cost. Continually advance operational improvements to improve efficiency with the production functions. -Resource Planning: Ensure that your site management teams are adequately resourced and that personnel are trained and developed. Assets should be in place and maintained to ensure the business plan can be delivered. Ensure personnel are effectively developed and become highly competent, and to identify and progress any employees with the potential to further their career through the business and a successional line is in place to facilitate this activity. -Directing: Provide leadership to the site teams, ensuring that operational goals and expectations are understood and personnel are proactively developed. -Business Analysis: Working with the Area Operations Manager to ensure all operational management information is accurate, relevant and is used effectively to assist in the management of the business and the progression of all profit enhancing opportunities. -Controlling: Ensure operational control mechanisms are effectively implemented covering all relevant aspects (including Health & Safety, environmental controls, capex management control, revenue spend controls).

Requirements

• capex
• project performance
• appraisals
• kpi

What You Bring

-Capex project performance and post appraisals -Operating KPI’s

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Benefits

-Compensation Package: Bonus incentives / Generous Pension Schemes / Life Assurance -Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) / Mental Health First Aiders / Cycle to Work / Employee Benefits portal including Gym discount / Free eye tests / Discounted Private Medical cover -Family Friendly: Enhanced policies such as Maternity / Paternity / Parental Leave / Neonatal / Adoption/IVF/Menopause -Social Value: paid Volunteering Day every year / Communities (LGBTQ+, Network of Woman, Woman in Science and Engineering (STEM), Armed Forces)

About Heidelberg Materials Uk

-Born from Hanson Trust in 1964 and acquired by HeidelbergCement in 2007, it now operates under a unified global brand. -With over 300 sites across the UK—from quarries to depots—it underpins everything from local housing to major infrastructure projects. -It delivers essential materials like aggregates, cement, asphalt and ready‑mixed concrete to roads, bridges, hospitals and schools. -Known for innovation like carbon‑captured ‘evoZero’ cement and pioneering low‑carbon concrete and asphalt offerings. -Standout moment: world‑first hydrogen‑powered kiln trials in Lancashire and pioneering CCS investment at Padeswood cement works. -They’ve grown through acquisition too—recently adding UK recycling firms like B&A Group to expand sustainable services.

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