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Site Manager Nights

Employer
Food & Drink Recruit
Location
Oldham
Salary
£55,000 +benefits
Closing date
26 Nov 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Operations, Other Job Function, Production
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Site Manager Nights £55k plus benefits - Oldham Based

Park Cakes is a privately owned c£170 million business which supplies cake and desserts to service the own brands of major retailers, there are two sites both based in the North West at Oldham and Bolton.

Our products include, high end celebration cake products, slab cakes and mainstream desserts, we  mostly supply Marks & Spencer’s although we also supply major retailers  including Sainsbury’s, Tesco’s Co-op and Aldi and Morrisons and have a growing export business.

Park Cakes is a profitable business with a clear commercial strategy and a strong relationship with its customers and suppliers through its energy, style and commitment to partner relationships and quality.

The Oldham site is our largest site with a turnover of £130m, c90% of the business at the Oldham site is with M&S, our main customer.

We currently have a vacancy for a Site Manager for nights, this position is responsible for approximately 200 people, a team of managers and will have several functions reporting to it including two manufacturing bakeries, Engineering, Technical and Health & Safety.

The role has a wide ranging remit with responsibilities which include:

  • Oversee the full operation of the site on nights, and manage performance of each function against KPI's including variances, stocks, planning etc and financial measures
  • Ensure that the nights operation mirrors the dayshift operation as regards cost and performance and there is a strong relationship with dayshift teams for handover
  • Delivering leadership to a management team ensuring that all aspects of labour resources and materials to ensure that production targets are met within and KPI's are attained
  • Responsibility for the quality of products, ensuring they are produced to the correct quality standard and resolving any Technical issues including customer issues.
  • Facilitating staff performance and development, and ensuring the department structure and skills are developed to meet changing job requirements.
  • Actioning absence, disciplinary and grievance processes and investigations ensuring the required standard for compliance with the Company policies and procedures.
  • Actively promoting a safety culture and proactively manage the Health, Safety and Welfare of staff ensuring compliance with the Company policy and relevant legislation.
  • Maintaining GMP/Hygiene standards to meet operational requirements.
  • Effectively communicate with staff, colleagues and senior managers on matters regarding production, quality, service, Health and Safety and people issues as necessary maintaining good employee relations.

Candidate Profile

  • Several years experience working as a manager in a senior role in a labour intensive production environment, ideally in food.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, aligned to an enthusiastic and tenacious nature
  • The ability to manage expectations in a calm and professional manner
  • Good organisational & time management skills and delivery of cost and performance targets
  • Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, CI, and an understanding of OEE , downtime variances, and other KPI's
  • A customer focused approach and the ability to communicate & influence across a variety all levels, both internally & externally

Package:

  • Salary is £55k
  • 25 days holiday a year and 8 statutory holidays
  • Money purchase pension scheme with 3% contribution of salary

To Apply: Please press the "Apply" button

*Due to the amount of applications received, only those who the company wishes to progress will be contacted. If you have not received correspondence within 21 days then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Thank you for reading this advertisement.

 

Company

Food and Drink Recruit are a leading specialist recruitment agency. We can fill any specialised roles for Food and Drink Manufacturing Companies across the UK.

Our recruitment covers all disciplines such as NPD, Technical, Quality, Engineering, HR, Production, IT, Purchasing, Sales and Marketing, Supply Chain, Warehouse, Planning etc.

Check our website for more details: www.foodanddrinkrecruit.co.uk

Company info
Website
Telephone
0113 2250 907
Location
Spen Court
Leeds
LS16
GB

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