Senior Production Manager - Backshift

Role Definition:

Reporting directly to the site Operations Manager, the Senior Production Manager will achieve business value, improve customer service, drive employee performance and assist operations manager in the efficient management of the operation. The senior production manager will ensure that targets are met and regularly challenged and improved on withing two production hall areas. Delivering high standards of quality, ensuring product produced is to customer specification in line with critical control points, GMP and H&S requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Setting the correct standards and expectations within the team

Health & Safety

Food Safety

Product Quality and customer specifications

Process compliance including Hold/ Non-con avoidance

Specifications Adherence

Traceability

Service Level

Managing and Facilitating structured meetings at different levels

Resource

Performance Management & Accountability

Succession

Training / Skills Matrix

Rotation

Holiday and Absence Management

Managing labour costs

Communication

Escalation

Delegation

KPI

Yield Performance / Improvement

Giveaway Performance / Improvement

Labour Performance / Improvement

Waste Performance / Improvement

Correct use of systems and hardware - Innova - Piranha / Shire

Personal Specification

The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience of management of a Food Manufacturing facility.

Must have experience working to BRC standards.

Significant experience at Management Level with leadership and people management experience.

Good numeracy skills

Attentive to detail

Flexible, adaptable, keen to learn and support others' learning

Speaking, writing and understanding good spoken and written English language. (This is an essential health & safety, traceability, team management and quality control requirement which will be tested as part of the recruitment process)

Good facilitator and motivator

Learning and implementing new information quickly

Strong team leader

Accreditation Food Hygiene equivalent at level 3 and HACCP cert