Manufacturing Flm

Allied Bakeries make the top bread brands Kingsmill, Allinson’s and Sunblest. Across our bakeries we make white, wholemeal and seeded market-leading loaves, as well as Kingsmill 50/50, the nation’s favourite Healthier White, delicious pancakes, crumpets, hot cross buns and more.

We take massive pride in our brands and all that we do, including our bakeries having one of the best safety performance records in the industry. We know that the success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team, so if you’re looking to join a business that values its people, encourages everyone to get involved and be the best they can be, we’d love to hear from you.

**Overview of role**:
**Location: West Bromwich**

**Salary: £46k - £48k depending on experience**

In this role you will facilitate and coach team performance, encouraging development of individuals and teams through clear and inspirational leadership. Working through others, achieving high levels of targeted performance, customer satisfaction and quality standards; this will be founded on a culture of continuous improvement, development and learning.
It is expected that the jobholder will create an environment where critical thinking and constructive challenging is the norm. The role is shift based 42 hours a week working on a shift pattern of 4 on 4 off rotating between days and nights.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Actively engage individuals and teams in the Safety First culture, managing people effectively through robust leadership skills and in compliance with AB internal policies and procedures
- To lead and facilitate individuals and teams to deliver optimal levels of performance on cost, resource, service requirements
- To drive product quality through all systems available and people
- To contribute to the optimization of a production plan, operating the production plant in the most efficient and cost effective manner
- Ensure that development and training needs of individuals are consistently applied to create a proactive environment of learning through relevant documentation (learning logs)
- To actively encourage individuals and teams to continuously challenge and improve manufacturing processes
- To optimise work cross-functionally providing insight and control over the bakery infrastructure.

**The Right Person**:
**Essential**
- At least 3 Years experience within a FMCG environment with
- Proven leadership and management experience and
- Be able to demonstrate people and performance experience

**Advantageous**
- Preferably be a graduate in a Manufacturing related discipline or equivalent.

Our defining value is to ‘_Be the best we can be’; _the behaviors that we believe help us to do this and are key to our success are: _Aim high, I do what I say, Work Together_ and _Everybody Matters_.
- 'We strive to ensure that all employee's receive the resources they need to succeed_,_ to _build a diverse and i_nclusive organisation that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for consumers, customers and stakeholders’._