GBR Recruitment Ltd are extremely pleased to be working with a leading chilled food manufacturing business, recruiting for an experienced Food Production Shift Manager, to work on a day shift (06:30am start) covering Tuesday to Saturday, managing a team of 6 directs (Supervisors / Line Leaders) & c.50-100 indirect Food Production Operatives.
The ideal candidate for this key day shift role, is a Food Production Management professional (at Shift Manager or FLM level) who is a strong mentor, coach & developer of others,someone who is passionate about getting the very best performance out of their production teams, using positive tried & tested methods.
The business has strong working practices / processes already in place, so the key focal point of this leadership role is the companies employee's. You will focus on their well-being, their personal development & training, plus their performance levels (hitting productivity targets & meeting the quality standards required by the business & it's customers).
You will be able to implement, drive & promote a happy bouyant working culture, with everyone being a team player (one for all & all for one).
Duties:
- Taking ownership of the production team, ensuring full compliance to the the daily & weekly production plans, delivering a quality food product range OTIF, meeting customer deadlines to a costed standard.
- Delivering world class manufacturing standards, through your self development & your teams development, plus involvement.
- Ensuring staffing numbers are set at an optimum level to achieve output levels to the standards required by the customers (Retailers etc.).
- Responsible for maintaining excellent GMP / HACCP standards at all times, delivering quality standards required (customers and external audits, i.e. BRC)
- Ensure the smooth running of the core business by liaising with department leaders to co-ordinate stock, production, picking and dispatch
- Manage, control & achieve set KPI's (i.e. Plan attainment, Cost of Quality, Labour Cost, Training, Skills Gap, Recruitment / Retention, Downtime & Waste).
- Take the lead on all things food safety.
- Proactive & Reactive day to day problem solving, to ensure daily production plan is met
- Strong focus on SIC / bottleneck management & team management to ensure throughputs are successfully maintained at the target levels
- Proactively suggest process improvements / CI, that can improve throughputs & efficiency (LEAN).
- Be a real people motivator, manager, trainer & truly develop the production team workers & maximise their potential (future Managers).
- Be a highly positive contributer in all production meetings
- Carry out RTW's, investigations & disciplinaries when needed.
- Cross train staff to be able to multi-task & carry out varying duties.
- Support NPD during the development of new products & NPI.
Attributes:
- Food Production / Processing experience at Shift Manager, FLM, Area Manager, Section Manager, Production Manager or Factory Manager level.
- Chilled Food sector experience.
- Passionate mentor, coach & motivator of others.
- Strong in GMP, BRC Audits, Retailer Codes, H&S, HACCP, SIC, CI, LEAN, Zero Waste & Quality.
- Able to lead teams of 5+ (directs) & c.50-100 Operatives (indirects).
Immediate start for the right applicant.
Commutable from Middlesborough, Billingham, Stockton on Tees, Thornaby, Hartlepool, Redcar, Sedgefield, Peterlee, Northallerton, Darlington & Newton Aycliffe