Food Production Shift Manager

7 days ago

Northallerton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom GBR Recruitment Ltd Full time

Job Summary:

GBR Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Food Production Shift Manager to join a leading chilled food manufacturing business. As a key member of the production team, you will be responsible for managing a team of 6 directs and c.50-100 indirect food production operatives.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Production Planning and Execution: Take ownership of the production team, ensuring full compliance to the daily and weekly production plans, delivering a quality food product range on-time-in-full (OTIF), meeting customer deadlines to a costed standard.
  • Manufacturing Standards: Deliver world-class manufacturing standards through self-development and team development, ensuring excellent Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) standards at all times.
  • Staffing and Scheduling: Ensure staffing numbers are set at an optimum level to achieve output levels to the standards required by customers.
  • Quality and Compliance: Responsible for maintaining excellent GMP and HACCP standards at all times, delivering quality standards required by customers and external audits (e.g., BRC).
  • Operational Efficiency: Ensure the smooth running of the core business by liaising with department leaders to coordinate stock, production, picking, and dispatch.
  • Performance Metrics: Manage, control, and achieve set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including plan attainment, cost of quality, labor cost, training, skills gap, recruitment/retention, downtime, and waste.
  • Food Safety: Take the lead on all things food safety.
  • Problem-Solving: Proactive and reactive day-to-day problem-solving to ensure daily production plans are met.
  • Process Improvement: Proactively suggest process improvements and Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives to improve throughputs and efficiency (LEAN).
  • Team Development: Be a real people motivator, manager, trainer, and developer of production team workers, maximizing their potential and future management opportunities.
  • Communication: Be a highly positive contributor in all production meetings.
  • Disciplinary Actions: Carry out Return to Work (RTW) interviews, investigations, and disciplinaries when needed.
  • Training and Development: Cross-train staff to be able to multi-task and carry out varying duties.
  • New Product Development: Support New Product Development (NPD) during the development of new products and New Product Introduction (NPI).

Requirements:

  • Experience: Food production/processing experience at Shift Manager, FLM, Area Manager, Section Manager, Production Manager, or Factory Manager level.
  • Industry Knowledge: Chilled food sector experience.
  • Leadership Skills: Passionate mentor, coach, and motivator of others.
  • Technical Skills: Strong in GMP, BRC audits, retailer codes, H&S, HACCP, SIC, CI, LEAN, Zero Waste, and Quality.
  • Leadership Experience: Able to lead teams of 5+ directs and c.50-100 operatives.

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