Warburtons
Production Shift Manager

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Title: Production Shift Manager/Operations Support Manager
Function: Manufacturing
Contract: Permanent
Location: Bakery 41, Wakefield
Shifts: 4 on 4 off | Days
Every day, our teams work together to deliver quality products to customers across the UK. We're looking for a Production Shift Manager / Operations Support Manager who can inspire people, drive performance and lead operational excellence in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. If you thrive on developing teams, solving challenges and delivering results, we'd love to hear from you.
Essential Ingredients
- An experienced and proven manager of people working in a manufacturing environment, ideally FMCG
- Able to work shift patterns that include weekends, evenings and bank holidays
- Planning and budgetary experience, stock movement and control and KPI management
- Innovative and Continuous Improvement focused, able to apply strategy to operations effectively driving change through the team
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Numerate with attention to detail & excellent organisational skills
- Good time management and able to work under pressure
- Experience of managing HR processes including absence-management, 121’s, employee engagement and performance improvement
- A great all-round team player, able to roll up your sleeve and get involved in all areas of Operational Management as required
The Role
The role is at the heart of our site management team and you will be obsessive about continuously improving and managing your team to be the very best they can be. We need you to be passionate, values-led and customer service focused. We take pride in our fresh products that are delivered directly to our customers daily, on time and in full.
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Safety is our number one priority and you will be responsible for ensuring our Health, Safety & Environmental principles are never compromised ensuring compliance to legislation and company standards. You will lead and engage your team to deliver the annual HSE plan and drive the HSE culture change through team involvement, ownership and responsibility for HSE activities.
Cross functional working is a way of life within Warburtons and this role interacts with a variety of different areas of the business. You will need to be a credible, all-round operations manager and leader of people. Plant efficiencies, damage levels and efficient change-overs are all KPI’s along with quality, freshness and service level measures. To keep any operations team moving you’ll need to be an excellent planner at the same time as keeping an eye on KPI’s and performance standards.
We are also passionate about our people. You’ll be a strong people manager and communicator, able to engage and lead your Team Managers. As well as inspiring your team, you will be able to influence the wider team and keep your team one step ahead by ensuring their ongoing growth with strong, relevant personal development plans.


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This is a fast-paced, wide ranging manufacturing role in a site that operates 24/7. To juggle all that this job brings, you will certainly have to be highly-organised and flexible, making things happen when the need arises.
Extra Dough
- A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
- Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you so you have the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week’s annual leave.
- Award winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%
- Private medical insurance and Life assurance
- Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
- Continued investment in your personal development
- Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
- Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
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