Shift Manager - food manufacturing

Job description

Shift Manager

£45,000 to £48,000
Kent
Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 9127

The company

This company is a well-established leader in producing premium products, including fresh and innovative offerings. It is currently experiencing significant growth (30% over the last 3 years) supplying key customers in the UK food retail, wholesale, and foodservice sectors.

About the Shift Manager job

The purpose of your role will be to lead an efficient, continuously improving shift, optimising product quality, GMP, customer service, cost and health & safety.

Key tasks

• Delivering consistent daily performance targets with a well-trained team where there is open communications at all levels.
• Ensure that all resources (plant, labour, materials) are in place to deliver the production plan.
• Lead by example, ensuring safe and efficient work practices are maintained at all times to ensure compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice and Health & Safety.
• Communicate with the teams by delivering regular shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivering and gathering ideas for improvement.  
• Ensure training schedules are delivered, to maintain a fully flexible team.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and empowerment.

About You

You will need at least 2 years’ experience within the food industry of leading and motivating teams of people to succeed.

• Relevant food manufacturing qualifications; including basic food hygiene and team leading.  Experience with HACCP, allergens, and food processing equipment.
• Relevant food manufacturing qualifications, including food hygiene as well as Health & Safety training. 
• Experience with HACCP, allergens, food processing systems and lean manufacturing techniques.
• Able to sustain and develop team working and team-based problem solving. 
• Good planning and coordinating skills with the ability to build effective relationships with work colleagues. 

More details

The Shift Manager job is based in Kent and is paying £45,000 to £48,000 according to your experience.

The working hours are 40 hrs per week, 8 hours per day with 30 minutes unpaid break, Monday to Friday weekly rotating patterns of:

Week 1: 6:30am to 3.00pm
Week 2: 2:30pm to 11.00pm.

Alternate job titles

Food Production Manager | Production Team Manager | Head of Production | Manufacturing Manager | Production Supervisor | Production Team Leader | Production Coordinator | Food Industry Production Jobs

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