Shift Manager - Afternoons

42.5 hours per week

Monday to Friday, 1:45PM to 10:15PM

About Wholebake

We are a rapidly growing British company with sites in Chester, Wrexham and Corwen. We produce a variety of healthy, gluten-free snacking products under a diverse range of well-known brands and private label ranges for retailers.

Our core values are fundamental to how we work at Wholebake and influence all aspects of how we do business. Our values are:

· We Operate with a conscience and passion

· We are Customer Focused & Consumer Driven

· We are Individually Excellent and Collectively Brilliant

· We are Entrepreneurial & Continuously Curious

We are also proud to be officially certified as a B-Corp (or a “better corporation”).

B Corp certified companies strive not only for profits, but for the betterment of the world around them. This includes their employees and their customers, as well as society at large and the environment – both locally and globally.

We are seeking to recruit an Evening Shift Manager to join the team based at our site in Corwen.

Job Overview

To ensure smooth running of the shift, prioritising Health & Safety and Food Safety. Operational KPIs of Output, Waste, Product Quality are recorded accurately and consistently achieved.

Job Title:

Shift Manager

Job Category:

Production

Department:

Operations

Reports to:

Production Manager

Location:

Corwen

Hours of work:

42.5 Hours per week

Main Purpose of the Job

Health & Safety

· Be a Health and Safety Champion, always putting health and safety first and supporting and educating your team on best practices and procedures.

· Hold your team accountable for their own health and safety by ensuring they always follow health and safety procedures.

· Working closely with H&S to follow up on any H&S concerns raised by your team, and always communicating back to your team.

· Embed a continuous improvement culture on shift by ensuring near miss incidents are reported, documented and feedback given back to your team on the issues raised

· Ensure Line Leaders are coaching and mentoring the team when procedures are not followed, and repeated issues or serious misconduct is escalated to you. Work closely with H&S and HR to resolve these incidences.

Food Safety

· Create an environment where food safety is a priority

· Demonstrate critical to quality behaviours to embed that food safety and product quality take a precedence over product volumes

· Ensure all food safety processes are being followed

· Ensure that any errors, hazards or breakages are escalated to you quickly and you work with on Shift QA to review risk and any immediate action

· Work closely with technical team to ensure market leading product quality

People Leadership

· Be a role model for Wholebake’s values and hold your team accountable to these high standards.

· Engage, motivate and develop your team whilst actively managing any behaviour or performance concerns.

· Identify and support the training needs of your new and existing team members.

· Manage, support & develop all employees on the shift ensuring that the team are adequately trained with good succession planning for the leaders and other key roles

· Manage the timesheet for the shift, ensuring this is accurate and up to date at the end of each shift

· Follow the appropriate process for approving leave for your team

· Working closely with HR, lead investigations, disciplinary or grievance meetings. Where appropriate and under the guidance of HR.

· When vacancies arise, follow all process to ensure good candidate experience and equitable treatment for all candidates

Productivity

· Supervise the smooth running of the Shift, being the point of contact for all management enquiries

· Ensure that shift achieves the production plan with the best possible quality of bar minimising waste, rework and giveaway

· Manage the packing operation ensuring that the product is correctly labelled and efficiently packaged in accordance with the agreed technical standard & all production documents are completed correctly

· Record & assess all manufacturing KPI’s including giveaway, waste and OEE ensuring that machine availability and performance are maximized & rework is minimal

· Complete all production reports including the shift report, labour analysis, waste reports, OEE and any other reports deemed appropriate to record the performance of the shift

· Prepare corrective action where required ensuring the route cause is identified

· Implement Continuous Improvement throughout the process identifying both short term and long term opportunities

· Assess opportunities to improve capacity for short term and long terms gain

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.

Our Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Demonstrable experience in FMCG
• Strong Supervision/Management role experience
• Food manufacturing experience is strongly desired
• Good management & logistics skills
• Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to think on your feet
• Excellent communication skills and a good level of English language
• Good IT skills and numerate
• Adaptable

We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £44,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Discounted or free food
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work Location: In person