Bakery Production Manager

Skills & Requirements

You will be great at:

• Leading, developing and motivating shift management team
• Supporting with planning and managing production schedules to ensure we meet customer delivery requirements, taking into account capacity, labour resource, machine changeover and production line efficiencies and allocated engineering/hygiene shutdown time
• Ensuring a positive attitude to Health & Safety is embedded in your team
• Ensuring that Legal, commercial and moral obligations that food produced is safe for consumption and that food safety standards
• Improve productivity through promoting a Continuous Improvement Culture and manufacturing initiatives, maintaining excellent employee relations and identifying and promoting employee learning and training
• Communicate and maintain good working relationships with other functions including: Engineering, Technical, Quality, NPD, Commercial and HR
• Oversee and liaise as appropriate to introduce new equipment, working methods and product changes agreed with Site GM and internal functions.

You are:

• Conscientious self-starter, able to take the initiative.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and good numeracy skills.
• Process driven with the confidence to take ideas forward and willingness to engage others in a collaborative environment.
• Enjoys a mix of office & site-based work – getting stuck in when it’s needed.
• Ability to communicate at all levels across the business.

You have:

• Leadership Experience, immediate team and wider workforce
• Ability to work with colleagues across multiple functions
• Excellent communicator with strong oral and written communication abilities
• Good administration and organisational skills with the ability to multi-task
• Natural problem solver
• Effective time management
• Commercial Skills – awareness of business processes and relationships; managing costs/value for money
• Good attention to detail
• Demonstrate strong communication skills being able to coach and motivate the team, with the ultimate goal of increasing employee engagement
• Ability to interact effectively at senior management levels, within the UK Operational Steering Group and at group level with colleagues from other sites.
• Proven history of effective problem solving and root cause analysis.

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