Production Operations Manager

4 weeks ago


Alnwick, Northumberland, United Kingdom Refresco Full time

Refresco, the world's largest independent soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking a Production Shift Manager to join our team at the Bondgate site. As a key member of our operations team, you will play a vital role in ensuring the production of high-quality soft drinks and fruit juices for our customers.

About the Role

  • Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver operational KPIs, focusing on Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People (SQCDP).
  • Drive operational performance to meet business targets, managing budgets and capital expenditure.
  • Lead daily operational reviews, ensuring actions are completed and adherence to production plans.
  • Manage a team of supervisors, ensuring training, development, and succession planning are in place.
  • Maintain adequate staffing levels, control overtime, and ensure compliance with Health & Safety and GMP standards.
  • Collaborate with site teams to ensure production plans are met and adjusted when necessary.
  • Analyse, report, and present operational data, and lead continuous improvement projects to enhance performance.

Benefits

Your shift pattern will be 3 on 3 off, 42 hours per week, with a shift allowance of 7.6%. In addition, you will have 2 x your annual base salary life assurance, a good company pension scheme, a sports and social fund, and free on-site car parking.

About You

You will be part of the Refresco team at Refresco, Bondgate, and will work closely with your colleagues to achieve our goals. You should have experience working within FMCG manufacturing, with a strong understanding of production processes. You should also have a proven track record in managing a small team in a supervisory role, consistently meeting targets and driving performance improvements.

The Refresco Values are what have made us successful and will help us and you grow in the future. If you follow the Refresco Values, you can't go wrong.

About Refresco

We're a global business with a passion for producing tasty, refreshing drinks. We're always changing, always innovating, and always growing, creating endless opportunities for you to develop and grow your career with us in the future.

We currently produce 12 billion litres from nearly 80 manufacturing plants in 13 countries and are only just getting started...

Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing own label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets. We also manufacture many of the best-known branded drinks such as Monster Energy, Innocent, Ocean Spray, and Vimto.

We're an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.



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