Manufacturing Shift Manager

Company	Yeo ValleySee more
Address	Blagdon, Somerset
Salary	£48,000 to £57,000 depending on experience
Category	Construction & Property

Job description

We are looking for our next Manufacturing Shift Manager to take over our day shift at our flagship yogurt facility in the heart of the Somerset countryside in Blagdon, near Bristol.

As a Shift manager you will be accountable for all operational aspects of Blagdon site whilst on shift, so management of large teams in a manufacturing environment is essential.

Our shifts are 12 hour, 6am to 6pm 4 days on and 4 days off.

Key responsibilities:

Meeting operational plans (both production and hygiene)
Ensuring satisfactory handover of information to following shift, and escalate where appropriate
Financial budget adherence
Driving continuous improvement culture across the shift team, identifying improvement activities and following through to completion
Working with other shifts and stakeholders realising improvement activities
Leading investigation/identification of root cause for health and safety breaches, food safety or quality breaches, or mechanical breakdowns
Sharing learnings and amending procedures to prevent reoccurrence
Maintaining shift training compliance and recording keeping
Ensuring all relevant Job Breakdown Sheets (standard operating procedures) are maintained
Site contact for external hygiene chemical supplier, ensuring maintenance of chemical stock levels are maintained

You will work a 4 on 4 off permanent day shift pattern, beginning work at 0600 and finishing at 1800.

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The important things:

Exceptional people leadership qualities
Excellent communication skills
Experience of working in FMCG manufacturing environments
Proven experience of working with Lean / root cause principles
Food Safety Level 3 / HACCP level 2

Even better if:

You have dairy experience
Experience of hygiene processes in food manufacturing environments
COSHH qualification

Benefits

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt. We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including: 22 days’ holiday including bank holidays non-contributory pension scheme life cover healthcare cash back plan cycle to work scheme subsidised Yeo Valley products and services preferential rates with our partners annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year) learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us! Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time. Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.

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