Senior Zone Manager
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- Bristol, Bristol, BS32 0BFPermanent
- Full-TimeSalary: NegotiableWhy Greencore? We're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK.
Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals.
In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.
Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development.
We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.
Here at Bristol we are the UK's leading producer of Chilled Sauces & Soups! From our site we supply over 37% of the UKs chilled sauces and 20% of the country's chilled soups to both Sainsburys & Asda.
What you'll be doing Shift: Nights, 4 on 4 off (18:00
- 06:00) As Senior Zone Manager you will lead nominated colleagues and manage the consistent application of processes within a given department or zone to ensure products are prepared and manufactured to the agreed standards and production plans.Deliver department/zone productivity and efficiency targets to produce goods in line with the agreed production planContinuously monitor raw materials/ingredients, all operational processes and the overall production environment to ensure that all activity comply with food safety manufacturing standardsMonitor and review labour deployment to ensure that the availability and alignment fits with the production requirements of the departmentEffectively communicate with the operations team report progress against plan, highlighting any risks to the achievement of volumes and standardsMonitors the effectiveness of machinery and equipment, through Optimum Equipment Efficiency (OEE), to ensure performance consistency and reliabilityPromote a Health, Safety and Environment culture within the department, complying to procedures, accident investigation, corrective actions and completing near miss reporting, promoting a safe working environmentReview operational trends within department / zone.
Identify and act on opportunities to that can make sustainable improvements in all areas including quality, performance and profit and the ultimately delivery of the operational planMonitor and review team capability, ensuring all colleagues are clearly focused on their key objectives and are developed to maximise their potentialActively contribute to both customer and technical process development reviews to promote improvement to quality and consistency of production What we're looking for We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders.
We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.Experience of managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environmentHolds an advanced Food Hygiene accreditationIf this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.Has a HACCP level 2 qualification and IOSH level 2 qualificationIf this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
What you'll get in returnCompetitive salary and job-related benefitsHolidaysPension up to 8% matchedLife insurance up to 4x salaryCompany share save schemeGreencore QualificationsExclusive Greencore employee discount platformAccess to a full Wellbeing Centre platformEnhanced parental leave and menopause policiesThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.