Production Manager

Production Manager - Dayshift

(PLEASE NOTE: TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, YOU MUST HAVE PREVIOUS FMCG / FOOD EXPERIENCE AS A PRODUCTION MANAGER)

Location - Bakkavor Bo'ness

Salary: £42,000 - £46,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Working Hours: 06.00 - 14.30

Days of Work: Tuesday - Saturday

Benefits Package:
Bonus: Up to 5% (depending on the companies annual performance)
34 Days Annual Leave
Pension
Private Medical
Life Insurance
Flexible benefits package

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Who are Bakkavor:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

About Us:

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

Our Business:

Our Bakkavor business in Bo’ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo’ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Pro-actively managing Health & Safety
• Leading and driving standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within your area through Good Manufacturing Practice (G.M.P.)
• Managing performance of your teams
• Owning the training & development of all levels of team including managers.
• Managing the NPD process within your area
• Challenging and introducing new KPIs to drive performance.
• Planning, organising and measuring labour and material requirements
• Managing the communication process to ensure that the workforce in their area is well informed on relevant business news
• Supporting and encouraging the Bakkavör values and a positive culture within your area, whilst fostering good employee relations
• The recruitment of direct reports and an involvement in all staff recruitment within your area

Accountabilities

• Health & Safety - To pro-actively manage to ensure that a safe working environment exists for all employees in the operation and that as a minimum the operation meets the standards set out in the Group Health & Safety policy.
• Quality Standards - To lead and drive standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within your area through Good Manufacturing Practice (G.M.P.) to ensure that both Business and customer standards are kept and audit requirements are fully met.
• NPD Process - manages the NPD process within their area of responsibility to ensure that all trials run successfully and through to product launch
• Performance Improvement through use of KPIs - Challenges and introduces new KPIs to drive performance. Ensures Team delivers agreed KPIs across the operation Ensuring systems are in place to collect the necessary data to measure performance against the agreed KPIs. Develops and implements PIPs and identifies areas for improvement.

What you will need
You will ideally have experience working in a food manufacturing environment and will have led teams in a fast paced manufacturing business. You will understand retailer expectations and how we meet them.
You will be a great leader capable of inspiring and engaging your team, understanding the pressure of a factory environment.

What you can expect from us:

When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.