VP Transportation – APAC

US/£/€Very Competitive Six Figure Base Salary + Bonus + Blue Chip Benefits + Relocation Assistance

South East Asia

You may think you’re a big hitter in transportation and logistics but are you ready to up your game?

Can you build on your success in your current territory and take it to an emerging market? Would you like to impart your knowledge of best practice and develop a large, complex third-party contract logistics operation in a different country?

What if there was an opportunity to head up a 3PL operation in South East Asia? And be relocated as well?

Enough of the questions. As an experienced VP/Senior Director of Transportation with an outstanding career in 3PL and in-house, you may be the person they need.

Ideally, you’ll be degree qualified in a relevant discipline, and your background will be from retail, grocery, or FMCG. Importantly, you’ll be able to demonstrate the effective management of complex 3PL or in-house operations of at least 1000 vehicles across multiple sites.

Suppose you’ve worked in Europe, the US, or the APAC region. In that case, you’ll be used to operating across multiple areas with different borders and infrastructures, and that’s important as our client needs someone who can quickly adapt to different cultures and procedures.

If you’ve previously headed up a 3PL operation and then moved to an in-house role with a large, multi-national operation, that could work as well. The nature of the  cluster means a broad scope of supply, covering retail, fmcg, eCommerce, pharma, technology network, from the major cities and conurbations all the way through to the tourist hubs around the region. As such, the operations are complex, and there are significant strategic and operational challenges in coordinating all these varied activities.

As you can imagine, this certainly isn’t a generic role, and there’s plenty of detail we’ll need to discuss, so start the ball rolling by sending your CV to applications@martinveasey.com quoting reference LX 703438

PROJECT MANAGER - (EPC) ENGINEERING & PROJECTS - HIGH HAZARD/HIGH INTEGRITY ENVIRONMENT

C£62000 (DOE) Excellent Benefits

North West

Our client is a global player with the high hazard and high integrity energy and power generation sector. Its project portfolio projects ranges from £50 million to in excess of £500 million. Its Engineering and Projects division supports Group project services across sites in the UK and mainland Europe.

The Role:

The Project Manager (EPC) will provide subject matter expertise across the engineering projects portfolio. This is a direct delivery project management role.
Reporting to a Programme Manager, the Project Manager (EPC) Engineering and Projects will provide excellence in driving the delivery of capital projects across its large UK facility. The Project Manager (EPC) will be assigned a portfolio of projects varying in size and complexity, each of strategic significance.

This role will cover the full project lifecycle from project set up, initiation through to project delivery stages and closure. The Project Manager (EPC) will be fully accountable to deliver assigned projects to budget.

The role of Project Manager (EPC) has multiple stakeholders, internal and external customers, interfacing across the whole group and this on occasion may require travel to mainland Europe to assist with projects.

Specifically, the Project Manager (EPC) Engineering & Projects will:
· Actively promote a proactive safety culture, be a role model throughout the project lifecycle across the Group.
· Advise, consult and provide feedback in the development and evolvement of the Group's Project Delivery Strategy, aligned to delivery of objectives and strategy across the capital expenditure portfolio.
· Overall responsibility for the delivery of projects to meet safety, scope, cost, schedule and business benefit targets.
· Communicate strategy, objectives and benefits to business unit and Group whilst implementing organisational strategy to achieve maximum business benefit.
· Develop a high-performance team, ensuring flawless integration of sub disciplines and functions throughout the project lifecycle.
· Foster and enhance owner relationships with subcontractors and vendors.
· Ensure our client's commercial position is robustly protected through the application of industry best practice in contracting strategies, supplier selection, procurement, contract negotiation and contract management.

The Ideal Candidate:

· University degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Project Management, Construction or similar.
· At least three years' experience in a fully accountable technical project management role actively leading EPC project (or as a project owner).
· Full project lifecycle management experience from concept development, initiation through to closeout/handover.
· Demonstrable experience of accountability for a complex, multi contract, multi discipline project(s) in a lead EPC role or owner role.
· A project management qualification such as APM or PMI or Chartered Project Project Professional (ChPP).
· Awareness of contracting methodologies such as NEC3, NEC4 etc
· On site construction experience.
· Experience of managing multi-cultural teams within a matrix pan European environment.
· Demonstrable success in project delivery in multiple industries would be highly advantageous.
All applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK and will be subject to security clearance.

ELECTRICIAN - CENTRALISED MAINTENANCE TEAM

£34500 (DOE) Benefits & Ongoing Training & Development

Location: North Derbyshire

Commutable from Derbyshire, Cheshire, Manchester, Staffordshire, Macclesfield, Chapel en le Frith, Leek, Stoke on Trent, Stockport, Buxton, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Matlock, Burton on Trent, Ashbourne, Belper, Rotherham.

This an excellent opportunity to join the plant electrical maintenance team of this division of a multinational company and play a key part in delivering production targets within a medium/heavy factory process operation. The focus is on maintenance, inspections, and planned maintenance of all electrical, automation and process control equipment. This includes instrumentation, PLC's, inverter drives, DCS/SCADA, LV and HV motors, switchgear and control gear, AC and DC, variable speed drives, and specialised control panels. We are currently seeking a time served apprentice Electrician/Electrical Process Control Craftsperson.

You will perform inspections and maintenance, responding in a timely manner to breakdown repairs with a keen eye to continuous improvement and to high standards in line with safety, quality and environmental targets. You will also represent the department on site working committees where required.

The Role:

Working with Plant Production & Maintenance teams and reporting to the Plant Electrical Executive Engineer:

· Completion of planned preventative maintenance activities

· Carrying out fault finding and corrective repair work

· Maintenance operations and accuracy of plant instrumentation including gas analysis systems.

· Record maintenance activities for plant history and capture and create further work requests through SAP based plant planned maintenance system (CMMS)

· Carry out planned maintenance and major repairs.

· Assist in the commissioning of new plant and equipment.

· Assist with plant isolations and verification.

· Ensure compliance with H&S and Environmental legislation and Company and site H&S rules

Qualifications and skills

· Apprentice trained electrician/electrical/process control craftsperson educated to ONC/HNC/Degree (NVQ level 3 or 4) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
· 18th edition wiring regulations
· Experience in a continuous process industry, factory, chemical, cement, lime, powders, aggregates, construction material or other industrial processing environment including full competence in maintaining large plant equipment.
· Fully competent in maintenance systems with experience of working in a processing/industrial environment.
· Understanding of health, safety and environmental issues/risks
· PLC, inverter drives, gas analytics, explosive atmospheres and telemetry experience preferred.
· DCS experience desired.
· Knowledge off process control and instrumentation systems
· Experience of hydraulic and pneumatic systems useful
· Knowledge and experience of HV/LV switchgearand control gear systems
· Working knowledge of maintenance management systems eg SAP or MAXIMO
· Good working knowledge of electrical isolation
· Experience in medium/heavy industry is useful.
· Must be able to work as a member of a team as well as individually.
· Excellent problem solver.
· Computer literate
· Interested in learning, self-development, and further training.
· Flexibility, self-motivation, positive attitude and ability to prioritise are important attributes.
· Opportunities to progress to Team Leader/Supervisor level are available for the right candidate.
Our client offers excellent development and the opportunity to make a real difference in a business that really values its people.

To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference LX 766610

ELECTRICIAN - MAINTENANCE

c£34500 (DOE) Benefits & Ongoing Training & Development

Location: North Derbyshire

Commutable from Derbyshire, Cheshire, Manchester, Staffordshire, Macclesfield, Chapel en le Frith, Leek, Stoke on Trent, Stockport, Buxton, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Matlock, Burton on Trent, Ashbourne, Belper, Rotherham.

This an excellent opportunity to join the plant electrical maintenance team of this division of a multinational company and play a key part in delivering production targets within a medium/heavy factory process operation. The focus is on maintenance, inspections and planned maintenance of all electrical and process control equipment. This includes instrumentation, PLC's, DCS/SCADA, LV and HV motors, switchgear and control gear, AC and DC, variable speed drives, and specialised control panels. We are currently seeking a time served apprentice Electrician/Electrical Craftsperson.

You will perform inspections and maintenance to high standards and in line with safety, quality and environmental targets. You will also represent the department on site working committees where required.

The Role:

Working with Plant Production & Maintenance teams and reporting to the Electrical Maintenance Supervisor:

· Completion of planned preventative maintenance activities

· Carrying out fault finding and corrective repair work

· Maintenance operations and accuracy of plant instrumentation including gas analysis systems.

· Record maintenance activities for plant history and capture and create further work requests through SAP based plant planned maintenance system (CMMS)

· Carry out planned maintenance and major repairs.

· Assist in the commissioning of new plant and equipment.

· Assist with plant isolations and verification.

· Ensure compliance with H&S and Environmental legislation and Company and site H&S rules

Qualifications and skills

· Apprentice trained electrician/electrical/process control craftsperson ONC/HNC
· 18th edition wiring regulations
· Experience in a continuous process industry, factory, chemical, cement, lime, powders, aggregates, construction material or other industrial processing environment including full competence in maintaining large plant equipment.
· Fully competent in maintenance systems with experience of working in a processing/industrial environment.
· Understanding of health, safety and environmental issues/risks
· PLC, inverter drives, gas analytics and telemetry experience preferred.
· DCS experience desired.
· Knowledge off process control and instrumentation systems
· Experience of hydraulic and pneumatic systems useful
· Knowledge and experience of HV/LV switchgear and control gear systems
· Working knowledge of maintenance management systems eg SAP or MAXIMO
· Good working knowledge of electrical isolation
· Experience in medium/heavy industry is useful.
· Must be able to work as a member of a team as well as individually.
· Computer literate
· Interested in learning, self-development, and further training.
· Flexibility, self-motivation, positive attitude and ability to prioritise are important attributes.
· Opportunities to progress to Team Leader/Supervisor level are available for the right candidate.
Our client offers excellent development and the opportunity to make a real difference in a business that really values its people.

To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference LX 766555

SUPPLY CHAIN DIRECTOR

£100,000 Car Allowance Bonus Blue Chip Executive Benefits

West Midlands

"A blank canvas."

As an experienced Supply Chain Director, these words may fill you with horror or excitement. If it's the former, then there's no point in you reading any further. Sorry, but that's the reality.

Because we're looking for the latter. Someone who relishes the idea of creating a complete and robust supply chain practically from scratch.

Our client is a division within a market-leading group of companies with a £100m turnover and around 14,000 SKUs. They're incredibly successful but know they need a total overhaul of their supply chain and procurement strategies to improve their business.

That's where you come in.

Possibly from an automotive, FMCG, global retail or wholesaling background, you'll be able to use your experience in managing a international supply chain to full effect. Our client's products are designed in the UK then 95% of them are manufactured in China. As such, you will need experience in managing the supply of parts and products from Asia.

More than anything, they need structure and strategy. The critical issues you'll need to focus on, are creating a formal S&OP team, establishing a World-Class strategic procurement function, and creating KPIs like OTIF to ensure next-day order fulfilment. Alongside overhauling the procurement function, you'll also need to review the cost-effectiveness of the current freight and logistics model.

It really is a blank canvas for you to paint your masterpiece.

As you can imagine, there's a much larger discussion to be had on the details of the role. So please indicate your interest by emailing your CV quoting reference LX 764947 or call us on 01905 381 320 for a confidential discussion.

LOGISTICS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER 

"Great career development opportunity for highly analytical, graduate calibre, logistics/transport improvement, development and projects manager to join market leading industrial manufacturer".

C£45-55000 Benefits

East Midlands (WFH & Office Based)

Commutable locations: Leicester, Syston, Market Harborough, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Wigston, Long Eaton, Kegworth, Coalville, Ashby de la Zouch, Hinckley, Oadby, Wigston, Oakham, Grantham, Lutterworth, Nuneaton, Tamworth, Sutton Coldfield, Bedworth, Coventry, Warwick

Our client is a major diversified industrial group specialising in the B2B and B2C bulk and cylinder tanker sector. It is a well-known UK brand and is undoubtedly regarded as a market leader. It now wishes to strengthen its logistics team with the appointment of a highly numerate and analytical Logistics Development Manager to identify and deliver logistics improvement projects.

It has considerably improved logistics performance and delivery efficiency, leveraging an increased roll out of technology to forecast demand, improve supply, vehicle fill and fleet capacity. Furthermore, it has centralised distribution delivery scheduling into a control tower operation ensuring better delivery control and visibility for B2B and B2C customers.

The implementation of several complementary systems has also unlocked significant logistics and distribution performance improvements. The appointment of a Logistics Development Manager will ensure that our client continues to extract maximum benefit from these systems for the business.

These systems also offer the opportunity to handle and process large amounts of customer delivery data to achieve future operational improvements. The Logistics Development Manager, through advanced analysis techniques, will lead the way in identifying improvement opportunities, initiatives, and projects.

The Role:
* To support the achievement of continuous improvement within the logistics and supply chain planning function.
* Collect, present, and analyse data as required to support operational & strategic projects.
* Identify opportunities for improvement in logistics processes, policies and systems covering inventory, supply, and delivery points; build models for trade-off analysis, and project completion, and to provide ongoing analysis of MIS information as needed for senior management team and logistics and supply chain planning.
* The Logistics Development Manager will act as a Subject Matter Expert for logistics and S & O P systems identifying trends that could improve logistics and distribution performance.
* The Logistics Development Manager will also work alongside senior logistics and business leaders to identify improvement and change projects.
* Work closely with and support operational and IT colleagues, assisting with operational deployment, guiding the projects to completion ensuring maximum return on investment.

The Ideal Candidate:

* Degree level qualification is desirable in numerate/problem solving area.
* Current/recent experience in a transport/logistics solutions design, logistics planning, logistics development role.
* Highly experienced in analysing large complex data sets, utilising them to improve logistics operational and business performance.
* Experienced in translating analysis and trends into logistics business projects, modelling the cost and process efficiency benefits, collaborating with key operational and business stakeholders to present a business case and ROI models for the projects; managing the project pipeline and supporting operational and IT colleagues to ensure operational deployment, project completion and delivery.
* Functional/operational experience in Supply Chain and/ or Logistics from within the Contract Logistics or Industrial Manufacturing involving primary and secondary bulk and cylinder tanker and transport movements.
* A confident personality. Credible and knowledgeable with experience of managing in a matrix management environment.
* Experience of logistics and transport network modelling and logistics cost and operational modelling will be critical to success.
* Advanced Excel skills are a prerequisite. Experience of data extraction tools advantageous.
* A confident personality, comfortable with liaising at both operational and senior executive level within a multinational matrix environment.
* Highly developed analysis, planning and project skills.
* Experience of the transportation of hazardous/dangerous goods gained in an international/European arena would be highly advantageous.
* Strong commercial acumen and excellent attention to detail.
* Experience of SAP or similar ERP systems would be useful.
* Experience of tools such as Paragon, IsoTrak, Microlise, CAST useful.

HEAD OF SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING, DISTRIBUTION & PROCUREMENT

"SI &OP specialist with excellent leadership and people development experience required to take on high profile supply chain and distribution transformation role for FMCG market leader."

C£70-75000 Benefits

Midlands

Our client is a market leading designer and distributor of internationally sourced and manufactured FMCG household products.

The Role:

It is now seeking a dynamic, inspirational leader and supply chain expert to head up the transformation of its supply chain planning, distribution, and procurement functions. The successful candidate will be a degree educated Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning specialist with an in depth understanding of warehousing and distribution complemented with experience of international sourcing, procurement, and supplier development.

To succeed in this transformational leadership role, you must already possess a demonstrable track record of successfully establishing and implementing integrated supply chain business and demand planning processes. This will include specifying functionality for and implementing ERP and forecasting systems.

As Head of Supply Chain Planning, Distribution and Procurement you will be a proactive and strategic thinker, very proficient at reporting and presenting business and capital investment cases at plc board level.

You will be an excellent cross functional team player, engaging and collaborating with key stakeholders within commercial, product development and finance to ensure accurate forecasts and plans and an agile, responsive supply chain function.

Operationally you will be happy to lead your team to get into the detail to drive supply chain optimisation and improvement. You will define and implement KPI's and controls to monitor analyse, report, and continuously improve supply chain performance.

You will also possess a detailed understanding of KPIs and cost to serve models critical to high levels of productivity within warehousing and distribution to ensure cost effective and efficient next day OTIF customer service to UK national customers across a variety of channels.

As Head of Supply Chain Planning, Distribution & Procurement you will be a visionary manager, leader, mentor, and coach. Your experience to date will demonstrate your strong capability in motivating, inspiring, developing and upskilling individuals, and teams, setting stretch targets, succession planning and creating a best-in-class supply chain function.

You will manage teams across inbound freight, supply chain analysis, supply chain planning and forecasting, warehousing, distribution development and procurement.

Accordingly, you will oversee the outbound logistics operation including third party carrier, haulier and sea freight partner selection and negotiation.

You will also define and create a procurement function which aligns to the wider organisation including supply chain and product development.

The focus will be on ensuring optimum supply performance. In this respect you will work closely with international procurement/sourcing colleagues, engineering and manufacturing on collaborative supplier development, innovation, and cost reduction projects.

The Successful Candidate:

* The ideal candidate will be university degree educated with professional supply chain qualifications such as APICS or equivalent.

* First and foremost a supply chain expert experienced in S & OP, demand and supply planning, warehousing and third-party logistics and freight management within a FMCG environment.

* Your procurement experience will complement your core strategic and operational supply chain expertise.

* Solid experience of defining and implementing supply chain strategy.

* Already operating at Senior Supply Chain, Head of Supply Chain, Supply Chain Controller level within a market leading FMCG organisation.

* Experience of demand planning within volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous contexts where initially all the data may not be available and efficient, connected processes may not exist.

* Experience of delivering supply chain customer service excellence and OTIF within a fast-moving next day service environment to retail, online and wholesale channels.

* Resilience and energy to lead a team through challenging situations, maintaining morale and motivation whilst driving improvements and operational performance.

* Able to demonstrate real examples of taking ownership of change and improvement projects from concept to delivery. Ability to reflect and continuously improve.

* Excellent commercial awareness of the total supply chain including order management and key account customer relationships.

* Data driven and critical thinker.

* Ability to multitask. Very organised and excellent time manager.

* Pragmatic, comfortable in the detail, results focused to get the job done.

* Strong communication and presentation skills to positively influence outcomes.

* Experience of working with lean methodologies highly advantage.

* Experience of SAP very beneficial.

What's the view from your workplace? Bet it's not as good as this…

You know those annoying friends on social media? The ones with the jobs that take them to fantastic locations so they can post "This is the view from my workplace..." type posts.

How would you like to compete with that annoying friend?

Whatever their current view, it's unlikely to match the absolute beauty of the Isle of Skye - particularly if you're about 100m in the air working on a wind turbine.

That's where this role is based.

We're looking for Electrical Technicians to join our wind turbine team, based on Skye. It's a shift-based role working 8 days on, 6 off, 4 days on, 3 off. So, you'll also have plenty of opportunities to explore this unique part of the UK.

As a time-served electrical technician with a minimum of a level 3 qualification, you'll be maintaining, fault-finding, and repairing wind turbines. Occasionally, you may be required to assist with installing and commissioning new turbines in other parts of the UK. But you'll be based out of Skye for the main part.

Along with the electrical qualifications, you can probably imagine that a sense of adventure and a head for heights will be essential for this role. Along with a sturdy set of underwear! Some of our turbines are 125m tall, so you'll need to be physically fit and comfortable working at height.

Prior experience with wind turbines would be a great feature, but we know it's unlikely, so we will provide the training you need to work on our market-leading machinery.

On top of the basic salary of £27,966, we pay working pattern allowances, overtime, training, and travel allowances. Our standard day is 07:30 to 18:30 with a 30 min lunch break (10.5 hours total).

So, if you're already based on Skye or would relish the life-changing opportunity to live and work there, apply now.

Oh, and don't forget your camera. Those social media posts won't write themselves.