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Excellent opportunity for an experienced Shift Manager or Team Manager professional to take the next step in their career within in this expanding European Food Business.

OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

• 3 on, 3 off - Days and Nights (7am-7pm and 7pm - 7am)
• Competitive Salary - 45,000
• Great Company
• Excellent Prospects

THE ROLE

This position requires strong Production Manufacturing Experience and hands-on leadership skills, along with a passion for developing and mentoring team members whilst achieving desired results. Key responsibilities will include:

• Manage all production staff, using your direct reports to maintain production plans and meet KPI and production targets
• Monitor and challenge line downtime losses, highlight to improve OEE performance
• Drive continuous improvement in waste reduction and management
• Continuously challenge changeover time to drive further reduction
• Ensure delivery of the schedule to the set target on a daily and weekly basis
• Support all trails and bringing to market NPD and EPD initiatives
• Recognise, highlight and resolve where appropriate training needs and performance shortfalls in team members both Compliance and On-The-Job

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Will have a strong food manufacturing background.
• A strong knowledge of LEAN Manufacturing
• The Shift Manager needs to also possess excellent leadership skills to drive overall productions across the shift.
• Will be able to demonstrate excellent Team Player behaviour
• Has a good working knowledge of Health & Safety and Quality and Hygiene Systems

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Production Shift Manager

Location: Bridgwater
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum
Shift Pattern: 4 on / 4 off (2 Days / 2 Nights)

Are you an experienced production leader with a passion for continuous improvement, people development, and operational excellence?

Our client, a large and well-established privately owned manufacturing business, is seeking a Production Shift Manager to join their dynamic team at their Bridgwater site. Reporting directly to the Planning and Operations Manager, you will work alongside three fellow Shift Managers, each overseeing operations on a rotational shift pattern.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead your shift team to deliver the daily production schedule, allocating resources effectively and resolving any issues that arise.
• Ensure production is carried out safely and that all quality standards are met.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, focusing on efficiency, waste reduction, and best practice.
• Manage and develop your team, focusing on training, performance, and growth potential.
• Track and achieve departmental KPIs and contribute to updating procedures and processes.
• Liaise closely with planning and other departments to ensure optimal volume allocation and workflow.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in a production or manufacturing management role.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Improvement (CI) and Lean Manufacturing principles.
• A hands-on, mechanically minded leader with excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Strong track record in people management, including performance development and training.
• A proactive, safety-first approach to operations.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary – up to £60,000 per annum
• 20 x 12-hour shift holidays per year (increasing annually to a maximum of 23)
• Company-provided uniform
• Bike2Work scheme
• Wellbeing 360 platform offering:
• 24/7 GP access
• Mental health support
• Retail discounts (online and high street)
• Wellness tools for you and your family
• Fully equipped canteen with free teas and coffees
• Free on-site parking
• Christmas and New Year shutdown (part of annual leave)
•  Pension – 4% employer / 5% employee contributions

Ready to lead from the front?

If you’re a results-driven production leader ready to take the next step in your career within a supportive and forward-thinking manufacturing business, we’d love to hear from you.

More About The Role
With a manufacturing operation as pacey and complex as ours, it's key we have a strong Production team who are on the ball and are able to keep up to the demands of the site. It's down to them to ensure our manufacturing operation runs smoothly, ensuring we deliver great quality products to our customers, on time. It's demanding, pacey and ever-changing. Reporting into the Production / Operations Manager, you will manage a team of Team Managers who are responsible for a large number of operators and technicians.
 
You will also be responsible for:

• Ensuring the Health & Safety of all colleagues whilst maintaining and making improvements in all areas
• Maintaining a balanced scorecard against KPIs to drive further growth across the site
• Maximising profits and drive performance improvement
• Working with our current teams to drive the Continuous Improvement Strategy, through colleague involvement and engagement

About You
As well as the ability to work at pace, you will also need to have:

• Experience in a similar role within a manufacturing environment (ideally within high risk)    
• A proven track record of people management and delivering strong results through a team in a people management role
• Excellent communication skills
• Assertiveness with the ability to make decisions on the spot
• A can do attitude and a strong work ethic
• An understanding of cost models and experience of budgetary control and understand pest control management.

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

• Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)
• 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us 
• Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Subsidised staff canteen 
• Free parking
• Market leading pension and life assurance
• Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
• Long Service Awards 
• Optional Payroll charity donations 
• Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave

About The Company
You’ll find a great big welcome here at Myton Food Group - the part of our business that looks after manufacturing, whilst maintaining strong roots within Morrisons Supermarkets.
At Myton Food Group, we have a legacy to be proud of. We’re British farming’s biggest single direct customer. We buy from highly valued suppliers. And we’re passionate about the quality of our food. Today, we have 19 manufacturing sites across the UK, where we pack and process fresh meats and fish, savoury and sweet pies, fruit and veg, flower bouquets, bread and lots more.
We really do stand out in the world of food manufacturing. But what we’re especially proud of is the way we all get stuck in and work as a team, in partnership across our supply chain. Read more about what we do at our Myton Food Group website.

Ready to lead from the front, motivating and managing a high performing production shift in a forward-thinking business?

Look no further! We are excited to be recruiting our next Shift Manager based out of our Telford site, at Northwood Hygiene Products!

Your leadership and management expertise from the FMCG industry will be utilised, providing daily opportunities to ensure safety first, excellent output, high quality, and efficiency are demonstrated on your shift, motivating and developing your team to achieve and exceed results.

Your shift pattern will be 4-on-4-off, working both days (6am to 6pm) and night shifts (6pm to 6am).

How you will add value to Northwood Hygiene Products:

You will lead from the front, motivating and mentoring a production team in achieving targets, maximising line efficiency and minimising cost. You will promote and foster safety and quality, managing daily SOR meetings to enable open communication and build a collaborative team environment.

We'll rely on you to manage daily staffing levels, ensuring crewing sheets are completed accurately, and communicating available resources to all departments.

To ensure your team are performing well, you will communicate daily and hourly line performance targets in a clear and professional manner, taking responsibility for outcomes.

To develop your team, you will utilise the performance management framework, ensuring all of your team are fully trained to perform their assigned tasks, and that all sign-off documentation is complete and verified.

It's essential that we are compliant, therefore a key part of your role will be ensuring legal and company regulations and compliance standards are adhered to. This includes H&S and Environmental standards, and liaising with the Quality team to ensure communication and adherence to QC procedures.

Departments you will collaborate with include Engineering, Quality, Health and Safety and HR, to ensure we're operating as efficiently as we can.

We are keen to speak with you if you have strong experience within an FMCG production/manufacturing environment in a team leadership capacity (e.g. Shift Manager, Team Leader, Production Manager, Line Manager, or similar).

• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Free company products
• Free on-site parking
• Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
• Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
• Free early access to pay scheme
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Employee referral scheme

Experience and skills you will bring:

• Leading and mentoring a team of at least 20 people
• TPM/Lean manufacturing knowledge and application
• Proven experience within a fast-paced FMCG manufacturing environment
• Critical thinking, coupled with efficient problem-solving skills
• Experience in implementing CI initiatives
• Proactive with excellent time-management skills
• Big-picture mindset, enabling you to relate events, processes and procedures to the wider business mission and purpose
• Ideally, you will hold qualifications in people management, and health and safety

Recruitment Process

Should you be shortlisted, you will receive an email from TalentCentral SHL with an invitation to complete our candidate assessment. This will ensure we can accurately evaluate your competencies and skills.

If you require any adjustments to complete the online assessment, please get in touch.

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Production Shift Manager based close to the Lutterworth area in Leicestershire. The position is working with an internationally respected manufacturer who have multiple sites across the UK.

Responsible for all Production activities when on site, safety, quality, output and budgeted costs. This includes reporting KPIs, explaining performance to budget. Pro-actively working with the Plant Manager, other Shift Managers and Maintenance to improve plant performance. Train, coach and develop staff and create shop floor responsibility and accountability for safety, quality, line performance and output.

What's in it for you as Production Shift Manager

Salary circa 57K including shift allowance, Included in this package is 8% pension, 25 days holiday, Comprehensive employee benefit package. Accredited training and personal development opportunities are also available within this position.

The role is 48 hours per week, 12-hour shifts, rotating Monday to Thursday, 6am till 6pm one week, then 6pm till 6am the following week.

Main Responsibilities of Production Shift Manager

• Set and maintains high standards for Health and Safety, Quality, housekeeping, and output to plan.
• Training and development of the production team.
• Ensure work activities consistently meet quality, safety, cost, and delivery specification.
• Actively encourage team members to freely report actual and potential variations in quality.
• Performance reviews of team members and identifies training needs and solutions.
• Responsibility for Plant/Production, informing Manager of any potential or actual conflicts between people.
• Organising and co-ordinating cover (Breaks, Absence, Holiday) within shift (or area of plant) to ensure efficient, smooth, and continuous running to meet production plan priorities.

Must have competencies, skills and experience as Production Shift Manager:

• Experience within Health and Safety, IOSH preferably within the ISO 45001 framework.
• Experienced in providing leadership and line management to the shift team.
• Ability to plan a variety of tasks and activities to benefit the line.
• Ability to work with other stakeholders in developing improved performances.

Desirable competencies, skills and experience of Production Shift Manager:

• Use of google platform including google mail, google sheets and presentations.
• Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure/cost of poor quality within a ISO 9001 quality management system framework.
• Substantive experience in using CI lean techniques, Green Belt preferably.

This Shift Manager role offers a fantastic opportunity to join an industry leading multinational business. For further information please contact

Production Shift Manager

Location: Bridgwater
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum
Shift Pattern: 4 on / 4 off (2 Days / 2 Nights)

Are you an experienced production leader with a passion for continuous improvement, people development, and operational excellence?

Our client, a large and well-established privately owned manufacturing business, is seeking a Production Shift Manager to join their dynamic team at their Bridgwater site. Reporting directly to the Planning and Operations Manager, you will work alongside three fellow Shift Managers, each overseeing operations on a rotational shift pattern.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead your shift team to deliver the daily production schedule, allocating resources effectively and resolving any issues that arise.
• Ensure production is carried out safely and that all quality standards are met.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, focusing on efficiency, waste reduction, and best practice.
• Manage and develop your team, focusing on training, performance, and growth potential.
• Track and achieve departmental KPIs and contribute to updating procedures and processes.
• Liaise closely with planning and other departments to ensure optimal volume allocation and workflow.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in a production or manufacturing management role.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Improvement (CI) and Lean Manufacturing principles.
• A hands-on, mechanically minded leader with excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Strong track record in people management, including performance development and training.
• A proactive, safety-first approach to operations.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary – up to £60,000 per annum
• 20 x 12-hour shift holidays per year (increasing annually to a maximum of 23)
• Company-provided uniform
• Bike2Work scheme
• Wellbeing 360 platform offering:
• 24/7 GP access
• Mental health support
• Retail discounts (online and high street)
• Wellness tools for you and your family
• Fully equipped canteen with free teas and coffees
• Free on-site parking
• Christmas and New Year shutdown (part of annual leave)
•  Pension – 4% employer / 5% employee contributions

Ready to lead from the front?

If you’re a results-driven production leader ready to take the next step in your career within a supportive and forward-thinking manufacturing business, we’d love to hear from you.

Production Shift Manager

Location: Bridgwater
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum
Shift Pattern: 4 on / 4 off (2 Days / 2 Nights)

Are you an experienced production leader with a passion for continuous improvement, people development, and operational excellence?

Our client, a large and well-established privately owned manufacturing business, is seeking a Production Shift Manager to join their dynamic team at their Bridgwater site. Reporting directly to the Planning and Operations Manager, you will work alongside three fellow Shift Managers, each overseeing operations on a rotational shift pattern.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead your shift team to deliver the daily production schedule, allocating resources effectively and resolving any issues that arise.
• Ensure production is carried out safely and that all quality standards are met.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, focusing on efficiency, waste reduction, and best practice.
• Manage and develop your team, focusing on training, performance, and growth potential.
• Track and achieve departmental KPIs and contribute to updating procedures and processes.
• Liaise closely with planning and other departments to ensure optimal volume allocation and workflow.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in a production or manufacturing management role.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Improvement (CI) and Lean Manufacturing principles.
• A hands-on, mechanically minded leader with excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Strong track record in people management, including performance development and training.
• A proactive, safety-first approach to operations.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary – up to £60,000 per annum
• 20 x 12-hour shift holidays per year (increasing annually to a maximum of 23)
• Company-provided uniform
• Bike2Work scheme
• Wellbeing 360 platform offering:
• 24/7 GP access
• Mental health support
• Retail discounts (online and high street)
• Wellness tools for you and your family
• Fully equipped canteen with free teas and coffees
• Free on-site parking
• Christmas and New Year shutdown (part of annual leave)
•  Pension – 4% employer / 5% employee contributions

Ready to lead from the front?

If you’re a results-driven production leader ready to take the next step in your career within a supportive and forward-thinking manufacturing business, we’d love to hear from you.

Production Shift Manager

Devon

52.5k

A production shift manager role for candidates with a food manufacturing background.

This is a critical role in a fast-paced, quality focussed business with a successful track record in their sector across their customer base. They are adding to their production team and need an ambitious individual to join, someone who wants to develop themselves and make that next step in their production career.

Great shift pattern allowing for 14 days off in every 28, 7 of those consecutive!

Why would you apply for this role?

• The business has seen outstanding growth over the past 5 years.
• It has a growing customer base.
• There are opportunities for progression through structured succession planning.
• Ideally suited if you are down to earth and enjoy team focussed environments.

What will your day involve?

• Manage the production team with focus on safety and quality.
• Communicate and track KPIs across the shift.
• Optimise labour use to meet the production plan.
• Develop team skills through training and performance monitoring.
• Drive team accountability and performance.
• Lead, coach, and review team performance (PDPs/PDRs).
• Promote continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration.
• Work with other shift managers to achieve cost savings.
• Stay hands-on to identify and remove production blockers.
• Communicate plans clearly to align with operational strategy.

We're looking for candidates who can demonstrate:

• Strong team leadership by example and high standards.
• Clear communication of KPIs with coaching and context.
• Solid understanding of GMP and HSE compliance.
• Focus on efficiency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Genuine interest in people management and team development.
• Good grasp of OEE.
• Positive, proactive attitude and problem-solving skills.
• Pride in achieving top-performing shifts.
• Effective handovers and collaboration across shifts.

If you are down to earth and enjoy leading production teams in fast paced environments and ready for progression/a new challenge, we'd love to hear from you!

We are supporting a leading food manufacturing business based in the North East of England as they have an opening for a Production Shift Manger.

The Production Shift Manager will be responsible for setting and driving operational standards in relation to People, Product, Process, Plant and Performance across all of the shift.

On Offer:

• £50,000 - £55,000 base salary + overtime opportunities
• Working 4 on 4 off (2 days / 2 nights)

Duties:

• Manage a trained and motivated shift team with committed, multi-skilled and flexible colleagues.
• Operate flexibly and respond quickly to change and opportunities – actively demonstrate the capacity to get into action fast and make things happen.
• Ensure that all roles are suitably resourced and effectively utilised in order to meet capacity/customer requirements.
• Ensure that all appropriate people mapping and planning is in place at all times. Your shift should never be over or under resourced with either permanent or agency colleagues.
• Take ownership and accountability for every aspect of your products on shift, making sure they comply to all company and customer specification
• Follow the daily plan and make sure it is delivered in the correct order, on time and in full
• Collect and understand KPIs, share key highlights and trends with direct reports.
• Ensure that planned outputs and performance efficiencies are consistently achieved in line with KPI requirements and standards.
• Take accountability for all shift production ensuring that plant throughput rates are met to achieve the required production targets to meet customer service levels whilst maintaining the integrity of the product.
• Set high GMP standards through visible leadership including daily walk rounds with direct reports, line manager and SLT, highlighting any issues and implementing solutions and remedial actions.

Experience Needed

• Production experience at shift management level gained in a food manufacturing environment
• Customer focus: understands the needs of different customers.
• Standards and systems: understands technical and operating standards.
• Leadership and communication: is able to provide clear direction to lower level reports.
• Team working: demonstrates an ability to work as an active member of a team.
• Health and Safety: demonstrates understanding and awareness of health and safety.
• Demonstrates knowledge of GMP and HACCP

If you want to find out more about the role, please apply with your most recent CV or contact Richard Steele at Alexander Steele recruitment.