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Role Overview: Location: Carmarthen and Holsworthy - regular travel between both sites and other Wynnstay locations as required. Wynnstay Group is seeking an experienced manufacturing leader to join our Feed division as Senior Manufacturing Manager, leading the safe, compliant, efficient and profitable operation of our Feed Mills. Reporting to the Head of Manufacturing, you'll provide visible leadership across both sites, with responsibility for health and safety, compliance, production, people, cost control and overall operational performance. You'll establish consistent standards across the two mills and ensure they deliver the required production plan safely, reliably and to the expected quality, cost and service levels. Working closely with Commercial, Quality Control, Transport and wider Supply Chain colleagues, you'll coordinate manufacturing output with customer demand and transport requirements, ensuring finished feed is available when needed to support timely deliveries to farms and stores. You'll also take accountability for site budgets and financial performance, using operational data to manage costs, identify risks and improve productivity. Through disciplined process management, continuous improvement and effective project delivery, you'll strengthen the reliability, resilience and long-term performance of both manufacturing operations. This is an excellent opportunity for a credible and commercially minded manufacturing leader who enjoys operating across multiple sites, developing people and translating operational insight into meaningful business improvement. Responsibilities: Taking overall responsibility for health and safety performance across our Feed Mills, ensuring appropriate systems, procedures, risk assessments and operational controls are in place and consistently followed. Championing a proactive safety culture through visible leadership, regular site engagement and clear accountability at every level. Ensuring incidents, near misses and unsafe conditions are reported, investigated and addressed effectively. Maintaining compliance with all relevant legal, regulatory, feed assurance, food safety, environmental and Company requirements. Working closely with Health and Safety, Quality Control and other specialist teams to prepare for audits, manage actions and continuously strengthen site governance. Leading the day-to-day manufacturing operation across both sites, ensuring production is delivered safely, efficiently and in line with agreed quality, service and cost expectations. Establishing clear and consistent operating standards, performance expectations and ways of working across both mills. Managing production capacity, labour, equipment availability and site priorities to deliver the required manufacturing plan while minimising avoidable downtime and disruption. Monitoring operational performance indicators and using data to identify risks, address under performance and improve output, efficiency and reliability. Working closely with Planning, Quality Control and Transport colleagues to translate customer demand into achievable and efficient production plans. Ensuring finished feed is produced and available at the right time to support reliable deliveries to farms and stores. Maintaining oversight of raw-material availability, production constraints, product changeovers, quality requirements and operational disruption. Resolving or escalating issues promptly before production performance or customer service is affected. Taking accountability for the financial and operational performance of both mills, maintaining disciplined cost control and a clear focus on profitability, productivity and value. Developing, managing and monitoring site budgets, ensuring expenditure is controlled, variances are understood and corrective action is taken where required