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Production Manager

Employer
KP Snacks
Location
Billingham, Durham (GB)
Salary
Competitive base salary + car allowance, bonus & great benefits
Closing date
14 Feb 2022

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Production, General Management
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Production Manager

Billingham (Home of McCoy's)

 

As a Production Manager, you will lead a Manufacturing Team to deliver a range of operational Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and objectives aligned to business needs by:

  • Participation in the development and execution of the site’s continuous improvement vision and strategy
  • Actively facilitating the delivery of a bottom-up team development improvement process
  • Delivery of Operational and Engineering performance to enable the factory to control its cost base with variable plant utilisation

 

Working in a highly competitive, fast-paced market and located at 'Site' reporting to the Operations Manager, the role holder will be a key member of the Site Operational Team and Production Management Team.

 

As Production Manager, some of your key responsibilities will include:

  1. Ensuring the Manufacturing area is a safe, efficient and quality focused operation that satisfies all stakeholder expectations and requirements
  2. As part of a Production Management Team, takes responsibility for day to day operational performance and ensures any issues are dealt with in the first instance and communicated to relevant Functional Managers
  3. Ensuring a continual drive to jointly deliver, with relevant functions; a Site plan to prevent reoccurrence of any issues
  4. Takes responsibility for coaching and developing their teams through effective performance management and promotes a culture in which lean manufacturing, both structurally and culturally is effective and sustainable
  5. Encourages a culture where leadership and working in partnership to drive operational performance are demonstrated through adopting coaching and supportive behaviours

A little bit about the site:

  • Factory volume of circa 29000t
  • >200 SKU’s of varying complexity
  • >11 packing lines and 12 process lines
  • Total employees at site of 730 operating 24/7
  • Specialising in fried snacks

 

The multi-award-winning culture at KP Snacks is friendly, welcoming and supportive. We encourage everyone to be the best they can be, working together to achieve great results.

 

We are also incredibly proud to have been named as one of the Top 25 Best Big Companies and one of the Top 10 Food & Drink Companies to work for in the UK (via Best Companies)

Company

At KP Snacks we are passionate about our people and proud to offer exciting rewarding careers across our business.
Do you like the idea of joining KP’s awesome team of happy snackers?  We have a brilliant culture and opportunities in many different functions, so if you’re talented, enthusiastic and up for a challenge, we want to hear from you.
Wherever you work at KP Snacks, you’ll receive excellent training and support to help you be the best you can be.
We’re an expanding company and – as part of the privately owned Intersnack Group – there’s always the possibility to develop your career further afield in Europe as well as in the UK

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