The Recipe: Bellshill, built in the late 90s, is a key manufacturing site producing approximately 1.2 million units of bread per week, including specialised products for both Scotland and the rest of the UK. As a Manufacturing Site Leader, you will play a strategic role in Warburton's freshness mantra, ensuring our products reach customers with optimal quality. This position offers significant opportunities for personal development and career progression. With systematic investments in people, facilities, and manufacturing excellence programs, you will drive productivity, quality, and health and safety benefits. Join us to lead a crucial part of Warburton's strategy, with the autonomy to manage your site's results, people development, and standards, supported by a robust business network. The Role: To lead and engage the Manufacturing teams at the site to deliver daily customer service targets with effective resource planning, whilst managing HSE, Quality, Food Safety and cost. To drive a Manufacturing Excellence continuous improvement culture to deliver sustained performance improvements. The role has full responsibility for the site facilities and services across both Manufacturing and Distribution functions. Lead and engage the manufacturing team to deliver the annual HSE plan and drive the HSE culture change through team engagement, involvement and responsibility for HSE activities. Ensure control measures are incorporated into Standard Operating Procedures and adequately trained and verified. Provide the resources to identify and deliver effective hygiene plans to meet Warburtons standards and legislative requirements with appropriate validation and verification plans in place for new products. Ensure control measures are incorporated into Standard Operating Procedures and adequately trained and verified. Lead and engage the site manufacturing team to deliver quality and freshness performance targets. Delivery of product improvement through and the Evidence led quality strategy implementation in collaboration with Centre UBQ team. Ensure systems are in place to effectively review and investigate consumer quality complaints and action plans for improvement. Alongside the Centre Technical & Innovation teams provide resources to plan and deliver sku changes and product innovation from trials through to launch. In close collaboration with other functions across the business, leads the site manufacturing team in idea generation and delivery of national and local strategies to deliver the Fuel our Future strategy. Identify and deliver the site manufacturing revenue and capital budgets and manage revenue expenditure to ensure budget targets are achieved. Lead, motivate, develop and coach the site manufacturing team to ensure they achieve all agreed KPI’s, personal targets and development plans as identified in their role profiles and via performance review meetings. Lead and engage the site manufacturing team to deliver the MFF strategy and drive a continuous improvement culture to improve plant performance. Provide the resources to identify CI opportunities and promote the lean manufacturing philosophies, tools & techniques working with the Centre Manufacturing Excellence team. Drive site performance, ensure that all employees are aware of the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) that they are accountable and responsible for within each of the departments within Operations. Essential Ingredients: Knowledge and experience of management in an FMCG environment – in particular, knowledge and experience of Lean manufacturing tools & techniques. Knowledge of TPM philosophies desirable. Experience in leading a multidiscipline Manufacturing / Distribution site. Experience or knowledge of working within an ‘Enterprise Leadership’ culture or matrix organisation desirable. Knowledge and experience of bread or OWB making processes, plant & technology desirable. Knowledge of legislation relating to a manufacturing/distribution environment (including employment law). H&S/Food Safety/food hygiene systems & legislation knowledge e.g. COSHH, IOSH. Quality systems & knowledge of HACCP – able to ensure the factory’s output meet required quality standards. IT and PC knowledge – able to use widespread functions within relevant software (inc Office and SAP). Business & market knowledge – uses knowledge of customers/market to improve processes & products. Knowledge of auditing processes. Knowledge of procedures for dealing with emergencies. Extra Dough: Be part of a great family. As an organisation that is 149 years old, with a clear purpose and values, we provide staple products that help to feed our nation. You’ve probably tasted our products - now have a taste of what it means to be part of the family behind developing, creating and delivering all the incredible products that we’re famous for. Warburtons is an iconic family business. Five generations of quality excellence - but family to us means everyone who works here. Fantastic products and inspirational people. We hope you enjoy exploring if Warburtons is right for you and you want to be a part of our continued journey… It really is rewarding to be warburtons. As a modern family business, we have always strived to make Warburtons an enjoyable place to work so that you grow with us as we work together to achieve our vision to be Britain’s Best Food Business. Our people are the key ingredient needed to achieve this. We value our people and are proud to offer a wide range of reward and benefits, from an award winning pension plan, profit share scheme and voluntary benefits website Extra Dough. By offering a range of excellent benefits, we can be sure to attract and retain top talent to drive the business forward. We pride ourselves on being on top of our game, leading the way in our industry and our reward package is a reflection on this.