Jim Oddie
Director of Operations @Alstons
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Operations @Alstons
Colchester, GB
Leading a team responsible for HSE, Production, Engineering, and Compliance.• Led a team through 2 restructuring exercises to adapt to significant volume fluctuations, maintain efficiencies, quality standards and protect service levels.• Implemented a sub-contracting contract, managing a design transfer within 4 weeks from concept to delivery to increase site volume by 30% and driving 10% efficiency improvements within 8 weeks. • Leading projects to ensure ISO:9001, FIRA, FSC regulatory compliance and EUDR preparedness for 2026.• Implemented visual management across departments to increase KPI awareness to a wider audience and improve delivery across the teams, e.g, increasing OTIF from 90% to 94%. • Introduced process controls to improve quality performance, raising internal first-time pass rate from 85% to 95%+ and external first-time pass rate from 90% to 94%.• Improved engagement in HSE across site – reducing accidents by 10% and creating a compliance culture.• Implementing a CAPEX that will improve material yield and increase capacity and capability with an 18-month ROI.
EDUCATION
Knowledge Academy
Lean 6 Sigma - Green Belt, Lean Six Sigma
Cranfield School of Management
Executive MBA
University of Nottingham
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Geography
Knowledge Academy
Lean Six Sigma
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
A- Levels, History
ABOUT JIM ODDIE
My passion is to deliver improvements working through my teams to help individuals and businesses grow and succeed. I have strong operational experiences and professional skills in Operations Management, strategy, people leadership and development, continuous improvement, project leadership, problem solving, process improvement and production planning. With over 20 year experience as a people leader, I have history of working in multiple sectors, demonstrating an adaptability to deliver effectively within various cultures from VC SMEs to Blue chip corporate organisations to nationally unionised government organisations. My skills sets have been effectively transferred across multiple technologies: healthcare; packaging; national logistics and food industries to drive improvements and deliver change.
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