Job Title: Shift Brewing Manager
Location: Northampton
Job Length: Full Time
Working Pattern: 4 on 4 off (2 Days, 2 Nights, 4 off)
Competitive Salary with extensive benefits:
Monthly product allowance – alcoholic & non‑alcoholic options available
* Private Medical options
* Life Assurance
* Company bonus scheme
* Access to 24/7 GP services
* Enhanced pension contribution
* Generous holiday (inc bank holidays)
* Access to a range of high street discounts
Carlsberg Britvic is the largest multi‑beverage supplier in the UK and is home to some of the most iconic and popular beers & soft drinks, including Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, 1664, Poretti and Brooklyn to ale favourites such as Hobgoblin and Wainwright. For soft drinks, Carlsberg Britvic’s brands include J2O, Robinsons, Tango and London Essence along with the licence rights to the Pepsi portfolio in the UK including Pepsi MAX, 7UP, Lipton Iced Tea and Rockstar Energy. With a strong national footprint, the Carlsberg Britvic business includes 6 production facilities and 16 logistics depot’s servicing customers up and down the UK. As these two historical businesses have come together, the one common goal remains, and that is ensuring our people succeed.
About the Role
As a Process Team Manager, you will lead a shift team through every stage of the brewing process, combining hands‑on brewing expertise with strong people leadership to deliver safety, quality, service, and cost targets. It acts as Site Incident Controller, aligns end‑to‑end supply chain priorities, and drives seamless handovers to protect performance. Working closely with day‑based teams, it supports continuous improvement, develops SOPs, and helps build team capability in line with the Carlsberg Excellence model.
Role Responsibilities
* Lead, coach, and develop shift team members to deliver strong performance across safety, quality, service, and cost.
* Drive effective performance management, including PDRs, improvement plans, recognition, and behavioural development.
* Maintain a visible shop‑floor presence, ensuring adherence to standards, strong process confirmation, and consistent ways of working.
* Build team capability through skills‑matrix development, targeted training, coaching in problem‑solving, and closing skills gaps.
* Champion safety by delivering H&S KPIs, ensuring full compliance, leading incident/accident investigations, and supporting site emergency response.
* Support delivery of all quality KPIs, investigate non‑conformance, drive root‑cause analysis, and strengthen food safety understanding across the team.
* Lead process confirmation audits (CIL, 5S, centre lining, changeovers, SOPs) and drive high hygiene and housekeeping standards.
* Act as the single point of contact on shift, making decisions on resource allocation, process issues, and short‑interval control to keep the plan on track.
* Prepare data and lead daily performance reviews, ensuring clear communication with planning, service providers, and day‑based support teams.
* Apply Carlsberg Excellence tools and continuous improvement techniques to embed sustainable performance and develop future team capability.
Experience and Key Attributes
* Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Production or Shift Manager within an FMCG environment.
* Proven background in line management and/or continuous improvement, with the ability to lead teams effectively.
* Strong practical brewing knowledge across wort production, fermentation, maturation, filtration, and beer processing.
* Hands‑on process leader who thrives on being out in the plant and close to operations.
* Confident, engaging people leader who can influence at all levels and act as a role model for the team.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coach, train, and develop others.
* Results‑focused mindset with the ability to align teams to KPIs and business objectives through structured policy deployment.
* Ambitious, driven, and committed to personal development, actively seeking and applying feedback.
Our commitment to diversity equity & inclusion
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences - including those of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, religions, and socioeconomic statuses. We actively seek to create a safe and inclusive environment for all of our colleagues, where diverse perspectives are welcomed, and inclusive practices are embedded in everything we do. We are happy to support accessibility needs, to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates, so please do let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process.
Application Process
We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled anytime, so please apply as early as possible.
We look forward to receiving your application.
This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people.
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