Site Manager – Dairy & Beverage Manufacturing Facility Location: Reports to: GM Quality & Product Innovation
A long-established, fast-growing international dairy and beverage group has recently invested in a UK processing facility just outside London. This site is undergoing major transformation — with new systems, upgraded capability, and significant capital investment already underway.
The business is scaling fast across premium beverages and value-added dairy, and this site will play a central role in the next stage of global expansion.
This is your chance to step into a pivotal leadership role, helping stabilise, shape, and elevate a facility that’s set to become the UK hub of a highly ambitious group.
As Site Manager, you will own day-to-day operational performance, leading a small and growing team to deliver outstanding quality, safety, compliance, and efficiency. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in turnaround environments, enjoys building structure where it doesn’t yet exist, and takes real pride in lifting standards and delivering results.
Lead, coach, and develop the site team, building a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across Quality, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain.
Ensure full compliance with UK food safety legislation, BRC requirements, customer specifications, and internal quality standards.
Promote and uphold a strong food safety culture across the site.
Production & Planning
Develop and manage daily–monthly production schedules.
Oversee purchasing of raw materials and packaging aligned to production needs.
Identify waste and implement reduction initiatives across all stages of production.
Support preventive maintenance and ensure machinery reliability.
Maintain accurate operational data across internal systems, including Xero.
Provide weekly performance reporting to senior leadership.
Track KPIs including efficiency, yields, waste, safety, and compliance.
Experienced in dairy, beverage, or broader FMCG manufacturing (BRC experience essential).
Passionate about building strong operational foundations and raising standards.
up to £70,000 base salary + 10% Short-Term Incentive Bonus
Company pension scheme
A rare opportunity to lead a strategically important UK manufacturing site with the autonomy to build systems, processes, culture, and capability from the ground up.