Ready to Bake Supervisor
- Bedford
- On-site
Ready to Bake Supervisor
Location: Bedford
Department: Production
Shift: Pink and Blue Shift - Days
As a key member of our production team, reporting to the Shift Manager, you’ll lead the Bake at Home department, ensuring smooth and efficient operations while inspiring your team to perform at their best. With a strong focus on organisation, performance, and continuous improvement, you’ll help us exceed business targets and reduce waste.
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
- Team Supervision: Leverage your experience in managing small teams in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ideally within the food industry.
- Standards Compliance: Ensure production aligns with Health & Safety, Quality, and Food Safety standards. Identify and report any non-conformances, safeguarding our commitment to top-tier quality.
- Product & Packaging Quality: Maintain strict control over product quality and packaging to meet our exacting standards.
- Shift Management: Step up as an effective leader, providing direction in the absence of the Shift Manager.
- Team Leadership: Embody Lantmännen Unibake values. Build a positive workplace through coaching, support, and development of your team members.
- Health & Safety: Foster a safe work environment by conducting safety walks, enforcing PPE use, performing pre-startup checklists, and addressing safety concerns promptly.
- Operational Efficiency: Ensure that Production Operatives follow Standard Operating Procedures, manage breaks effectively, and provide seamless shift handovers.
- Quality Assurance: Uphold 5S standards, complete and verify paperwork, and participate in line meetings, investigations, and production reviews.
- Effective Communication: Keep your team engaged and informed by sharing company updates and new initiatives.
- Training & Development: Support ongoing training initiatives and contribute to a multi-skilled, adaptable workforce.
About You
- Safety & Quality Focused: You’re dedicated to safety, quality, and customer satisfaction.
- Detail-Oriented: Your attention to detail and follow-through is second to none.
- Excellent Communicator: You communicate effectively and influence positive change.
- Team-Oriented: You’re a highly motivated team player who thrives in a collaborative environment.
Your Qualifications
- Experience: Proven background supervising teams in a manufacturing environment, ideally within the food industry.
- Qualifications: Level 2 CIEH Food Hygiene (Level 3 preferred), IOSH Managing Safely, with First Aid or Fire Warden qualifications as a bonus.
- People Skills: Strong interpersonal skills with a talent for building positive relationships.
Shift Pattern
You will be working 12-hour shifts, 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM
• Week 1 & 3: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday (4 days on, 3 days off).
• Week 2 & 4: Thursday, Friday, Saturday (3 days on, 4 days off).
You will be provided with yearly shift pattern.
Salary
£14.40 per hour – day shift rate
£21:59 per hour – overtime rate
Benefits
- Bupa Health Cash Plan
- Flexible Contributory Pension Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- IKEA & Currys Tech & Home Scheme
- Discounted Cycle Scheme
- Referral Bonus
- Reward Platform
Sounds interesting?
Apply Now!
Be a part of our mission to deliver excellence in food manufacturing. If you are passionate about manufacture process and food safety, we encourage you to apply. We are accepting applications exclusively through our online career portal.
All applications must be completed in English including up to date CV.
About the company
Lantmännen Unibake is a leading global bakery company within the Lantmännen Group. With expertise in bakery products for food service and retail, we serve consumers around the clock and across the world every day. The aim is to make bread and pastry a profitable business for our customers through tasty, high-quality products and innovative solutions and based on a sustainable mind-set and excellent food safety standards. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Lantmännen Unibake operates modern bakeries around the world and has sales in more than 60 countries. The brand portfolio comprises a range of well-established B2B and BtC brands e.g. Schulstad Bakery Solutions, Schulstad, Bonjour, Vaasan, Pastridor and Hatting. Lantmännen Unibake has a turnover of EUR 1.5 billion and employs more than 6,000 people in 20+ countries. Appetite for more? Visit us at www.lantmannen-unibake.com
#1It goes right. Right from the start. New people start at Lantmännen Unibake every day. We’re used to creating the right beginning, right from day one. We’re ready for you.
#2Baking is a people business. Lantmännen Unibake has flour on its hands and people at its heart. The whole process of making everyday products takes team work, open-ness and mutual respect.
#3It's a group thing. Working for a global business is different. You feel connected to something bigger. Your team has a higher purpose. Ripples turn into waves.
#4It's about baking the future. We are taking baking further. Not just geographically but in terms of innovation. We have a proud heritage but we want to explore new products, markets and opportunities.
#5Diversity is a reality. Not an ambition. Not only are we global, we hire a multitude of nationalities. At the moment, your future colleagues come from more than 40 countries.
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