Martin Holland

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ABOUT MARTIN HOLLAND

Professional with more than several years of experience in Management, mainly in manufacturing.I have worked in chilled production in the processing and filling of Mayonnaise, relish and dressings.Being responsible for Production, Processing, Engineering, Purchasing planning and Warehousing. Have operated at a Senior level in an Industrial bakery,(Jacob\'s - United Biscuits) where I started as shift Manager before being promoted to Weekend area Operations Manager, with site responsibility over the weekend. Moved to Area Operations in one of the large production areas.Worked as FLM for AB-InBev responsible for bottling and canning lines.Have been Site Operations Manager for a nut snacks manufacturer for the last 9 years. Responsible for the following areas, which directly came under me, with the department managers reporting to me: Manufacturing (Process, Mixing & Packing) Engineering, Warehouse, Health & Safety, CI.I was directly responsible for all CAPEX projects, Site services and site security.Developing teams and individual Managers to personally develop and improve is important to me.Ensuring effective communication across functions is understood to be key in aiding team performance and ensuring that decision making is informed. Helping Managers understand that all decisions have a financial impact and ensuring that they understand and can use department figures and data, by spending time mentoring and coaching.Also ensuring that the management team have a consistent approach when dealing with staff is important in that staff are dealt with fairly and that hard work and a positive attitude are recognised and encouraged. The staff are key for all aspects of successful operations and Managers must understand this.As project Manager have planned and overseen the installation and sign off of large Industrial plant equipment, requiring civil works, sourcing external contractors, installation and commissioning. Including being involved with design changes where necessary.At United biscuits wrote and achieved roll out of a new weekend working policy that was site wide, gained Union agreement and helped reduce the weekend overtime budget by up to 5%.I was responsible at Trigon Snacks for Operations KPI\'s, which included:Labour variance (cost per ton)Health & SafetyWaste reductionComplaints per millionConformance to plan.