-Manage the health, safety and welfare of staff through all operational activities including establishing safe methods and systems, ensuring staff are trained to the necessary levels and compliance with legal and quality requirements in order to minimize risk, prevent incidents and protect the business.-Drive a culture of continuous improvement for quality, health and safety to achieve the level of on-going safety culture expected for a world class leading Chemicals Company.-Direct and manage the production teams, ensuring production is efficient and transported in order to consistently deliver an excellent service and satisfy the needs and expectations of the business and customers.-Direct and manage operations ensuring safety and quality standards are met, and at a competitive cost for the marketplace.-Support the engineering team, ensuring that commercial requirements are planned, organized and delivered and that engineering facilities and capabilities are appropriate-Lead, manage and motivate the team ensuring that processes are followed for development and training, staff recruitment, disciplinary and grievance procedures and staff appraisals to secure a high level of performance and retain staff.-Contribute to the development and of the business strategy, business planning and execution to support the achievement of business goals and key performance objectives.-Support the preparation of budgets and forecasts and manage costs, overheads and expenditure in line with these, identifying opportunities to reduce cost so as the business achieves or exceeds the budgeted profit-Ensure good communication across the business, providing support to other departments with service improvements and consulting stakeholders on operations/engineering service improvements in order to ensuring both full functionality and continuous improvement of the business.