Manufacturing Lead

7 months ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Finsbury Food Group Full time

**Manufacturing Lead**

**Location**: Memory Lane Cakes, Cardiff

**Shift**: Monday to Friday

**Salary**: Competitive with Opportunity for Growth

We have an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Lead to join and lead our manufacturing team at our Memory Lane Cakes site as part of Finsbury Food Group. This role is ideal for a motivated leader, experienced within manufacturing, who is looking for an opportunity to join and lead a team to deliver real change across a site.

Our Memory Lane Cakes (MLC) site is part of our Cake Division within Finsbury Food Group. They make over 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes. They employ over 850 people on site and the sites runs 24/7, which encompasses a culture of teamwork, friendly and respectful leadership and a focus on continuous improvement at all levels.

The Manufacturing Lead role is a senior position accountable for end-to-end manufacturing processes within MLC’s production facility. It will help shape and implement the site’s strategy, ensuring KPIs are delivered across safety, quality, service, cost, people and sustainability measures. Leading and facilitating teams to implement significant change will be central to the role.

**This is what you’ll actually do**

You will work closely with the Site Lead to develop and execute the site’s manufacturing strategy. This will require strong leadership and coaching of the Operational Management team to ensure end to end production output is delivered on time in full. Finsbury Food Group is embarking on a new journey to operational excellence, and so you will be expected to help facilitate this programme, ensuring that you and your team have the necessary knowledge and skills for implementation. These workstreams will allow for significant improvements in efficiency and profit, for which you will be responsible.

**Ideally this is you**
- Significant experience of managing large teams within fast paced manufacturing (ideally food)
- Inspiring and empathetic leader that communicates well at all levels
- Demonstrable experience of leading and coaching individuals to success
- An in depth understanding of LEAN tools, ideally trained to green belt level
- A change agent, persistent in overcoming barriers to improvements

**What’s in it for you**
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral - T&C’s dependent)
- Employee Recognition Awards
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course)
- An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.

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