Job Description
📍 Birstall, West Yorkshire
💷 £37,800– £42,600 (including shift allowance, DOE)
🎁 + Performance Bonus & Exceptional Benefits
🕒 37 Hours per week -Rotating 12-hour shifts:
2 days 2 nights (5 days off)
2 days 3 nights (4 days off)
3 days 2 nights (5 days off)
🌟 Why Join Us?
We care about the world and your future. Mars offers competitive compensation and benefits along with some great perks, like fun freebies and best‑in‑class development. As a Mars Associate, you have our ongoing commitment to your growth and development as you work across our world‑famous brands. The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today, and we're here to support you every step of the way.
💼 The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Mars factory in Birstall. We’re looking for a hands‑on Area Leader to coach and support operators on our production lines, ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality and operational performance. Spending most of your timeline‑side, you’ll lead by example—driving efficiency, coordinating maintenance, supporting problem‑solving and maintaining exceptional hygiene and compliance standards.
This is a key frontline leadership role where you’ll guide your team, manage daily priorities and help deliver consistent, high‑quality products.
⭐ What’s in it for you?
* Hot food restaurant on site
* Career growth opportunities with structured development & Mars University
* Private healthcare + equal parental leave
* Onsite gym and nurse/osteopath/podiatrist
* Generous pension (up to 9% contribution)
* Life assurance (4x salary)
* EV salary sacrifice scheme
* Gym membership & wellbeing support
* Annual leave starting at 24 days, rising to 32 with service
* Free parking on site
✅ What We’re Looking For
* Proven leadership experience within a manufacturing or production environment, with the ability to coach, direct and develop operators.
* Strong problem‑solving and fault‑finding skills, able to identify issues, drive root‑cause analysis and support continuous improvement activity.
* Good understanding of safety, food hygiene and quality standards, ideally including IOSH Managing Safely, Food Hygiene Level 3, and HACCP knowledge.
* Competent with computer systems, able to record data, raise work orders, complete documentation and communicate effectively with other teams.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to give clear instruction, support team engagement and manage effective handovers.
🔧 Key Responsibilities
* Lead, coach and supervise operators on production lines to maintain high standards in safety, quality and operational performance.
* Validate and oversee quality checks, escalating any food safety or quality issues and ensuring non‑conforming products are managed correctly.
* Drive line efficiency, ensuring adherence to labour standards, delivering against KPIs (TRS, waste, giveaway) and supporting effective changeovers.
* Coordinate maintenance activities, ensuring correct handovers with engineers and operators, and raising/closing work orders as required.
* Enable problem‑solving and continuous improvement, coaching teams, addressing performance deviations and ensuring rigorous shift handovers.
🌍 What You Can Expect from Mars
* Work alongside 130,000+ Associates worldwide guided by our Five Principles
* Be part of a purpose‑driven company shaping “the world we want tomorrow”
* Access world‑class training & development from day one
* Join a company with an industry‑leading salary and benefits package
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