Mackle Food Company
Night Shift Production Manager
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Night Shift Production Manager
Mackle Food Company is seeking an experienced Night Shift Production Manager to join our production team.
This is a key leadership role with responsibility for night shift performance, production output, people management, and maintaining the highest standards across the factory floor. The successful candidate will take ownership of shift operations, ensuring production targets are achieved safely and efficiently while driving continuous improvement across the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Shift Performance & Delivery: Take full responsibility for night shift output, ensuring production targets, efficiencies, and OEE objectives are safely achieved.
- Health, Safety & Compliance: Ensure consistent adherence to Health & Safety, GMP, hygiene, and food safety standards, maintaining a high level of audit readiness at all times.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Oversee and coordinate Extrusion and Flavouring operations during evening and night shifts, ensuring technical issues are addressed quickly and product flow is maintained.
- Resource & Labour Management: Manage shift staffing, labour allocation, and holiday cover to ensure effective line balancing and efficient use of resources.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and develop the supervisory team, encouraging proactive performance management, accountability, and continuous development.
- Changeover Excellence: Plan and coordinate effective, standardised changeovers to minimise downtime, reduce waste, and maximise production efficiency.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive shift-level improvement initiatives focused on eliminating waste, improving OEE, and embedding a proactive problem-solving culture across supervisors and line leaders.
- Factory Hygiene: Coordinate night shift hygiene technicians to ensure excellent standards of factory cleanliness, hygiene, and food safety are consistently maintained.
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- Minimum of 3 years’ experience leading large teams within a production environment.
- Strong people management and leadership skills.
- Proven ability to manage production performance, resources, and competing priorities.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Experience within food manufacturing would be advantageous.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced production leader to take ownership of a key shift and play an important role in maintaining and improving operational performance at Mackle Food Company.
This is not an exhaustive list of duties, and the post holder may be required to undertake other reasonable tasks as directed by the Factory Manager.
Mackle Food Company reserves the right to expand the short-listing criteria to facilitate the recruitment process.
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