Production Manager - Days (Blue Shift)
Salary: Competitive, depending on experience
Benefits: Up to 10% bonus, life assurance, and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group
Shift: 3's & 2's, 06.00 - 18.00
Contract Type: Permanent
This fantastic opportunity will be based at our Bakkavor Spalding site, which employs over 1,470 people across 3 manufacturing facilities & 1 Distribution Centre. We specialise in making hand crafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups & sauces and mayonnaise.
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Production Manager to join our expanding team and site.
The Production Manager will lead factory shifts or multiple operational areas, acting as Deputy Factory Manager when required.
Performance Improvement Plans, team result plans, value stream mapping, line balancing and problem solving, utilising the Bakkavor Operating System e.g. To inspire and drive standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within areas / shift, to ensure that both Business and Customer standards are maintained.
Attend daily factory reviews and coach team members to ensure the quality of the meetings and actions is to the right standard. Accountable for delivering high quality Top Loss/ Kaizen activity for shift.
To pro-actively review and manage the performance of all team members across your shift. Utilise KPI data to benchmark, challenge and drive performance improvement.
In conjunction with the Learning and Development team, ensure the effective ownership, planning and delivery of training and development activity across your shift.
In conjunction with the Process Development team, support the co-ordination of NPD activity ensuring teams have the information, resources and time to deliver successful process from product trial to launch.
Effectively plan, organise and measure labour and material requirements to ensure that both short- and long- term agreed targets are met.
Agree core manning detail for shift, including skills required and work closely with the central recruitment team ensuring the team recruitment process meets the business needs. Takes accountability for labour turnover performance.
Experience in the food industry, especially chilled food or FMCG is preferable but not essential.
Proven track record of effective interaction with operational and non-operational stakeholders to deliver manufacturing targets while maintaining SHE and food safety standards.
Has a rounded and balanced sense of judgement, recognising when to escalate issues to more senior levels of management.
Must be adaptable and flexible to working hours and areas.
Intermediate Food Hygiene and IOSHH qualifications are preferable.
Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
~ Short Term Bonus Scheme
~22 days holiday
~ Stakeholder Pension Scheme
~ MyBargains Discount Platform
~ Free Independent Mortgage Advice
~ Employee Assistance Programme
~ A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
~ Discounted tutoring for children
~ Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
~ Private Medical Insurance (employee)
~ Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy ( Inclusion & Diversity Policy ).