Location: Milton Keynes
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Salary: Salary range starting at £38,000 up to a rate negotiable based on experience.
Hours: Mon-Fri 08:30-17:30, with flexibility depending on operational needs and participation in a 24/7 management on-call rota
Benefits: Bonus - Up to 6% per annum, Life Assurance - Up to 4 x annual salary beneficiary payment, Company Pension available, Health Plan - Reclaim some basic healthcare costs, Income Protection - support for long term illness
The Role
We are recruiting for a Production Manager who takes pride in leading from the front with integrity, working to both nurture production teams who are engaged and strive to deliver product quality to our clients and consumers, whilst maintaining a compliant, cost-effective production operation.
About You
You must be able to demonstrate:
- The ability to build and develop skilled production teams through effective recruitment, training, development and coaching, and performance evaluation.
- Strong understanding of what makes a compliant production operation, taking responsibility for and championing investment in HSE, quality and people.
- Sound judgement and decision-making in the timely problem-solving of issues relating to all aspects of manging a food manufacturing operation.
- Commercial awareness by managing production costs to meet budget and profit targets, whilst maintaining product quality.
- The ability to critically analyse the production operation and identify opportunities for evidence-based continuous improvements.
- Leadership and collaboration with key stakeholders to develop and implement corrective and proactive action plans.
- Effective communication skills in interactions with people at all levels in the business.
- Self-motivation and a willingness to learn and develop.
- Adaptability to different types of manufacturing IT systems.
You may be able to demonstrate:
Previous experience managing production operations, preferably within a food manufacturing environment.
Your key qualities:
- Articulate in verbal and written communication appropriate to your audience.
- Able to actively listen and draw conclusions from discussions.
- Able to see the detail and present the root cause of production-related issues.
- Resilient and self-assured when faced with challenging concerns, discussions, and people.
- Analytical of process and people to drive workable solutions.
- Enjoys working autonomously with initiative driving results to enhance the product and brand.
- A completer / finisher to gain full compliance across multiple functions to ensure a compliant operation.
- A collaborative style of leadership.
About Brioche Pasquier:
This is your opportunity to work for one of the largest food manufactures in Europe, Brioche Pasquier. We have been present in the UK for 23 years selling a range of French bakery products to major UK food retailers, wholesale and food service markets and have been producing here for 8 years.
We are based at our 240,000 sq. ft. technologically advanced production facility with expansion projects over the next 5 years to service the UK market supporting the strong growth of the company.
You may have experience in the following: Supervisor, Manufacturing Supervisor, Operations Manager, Production Supervisor, Production Coordinator, Plant Manager, Operations Manager, Production Lead, Manufacturing Coordinator, Production Foreman, Line Supervisor, Assembly Line Manager, Production Director, and Manufacturing Lead.
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