Want to help us bring happiness to the world?

Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis, you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration, and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

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As the Manufacturing Team Manager

You will be expected to make a positive impact and deliver results through others by overseeing their development and leading by example. The purpose of your role is to manage people, plant, product, and process delivery. You will be responsible for site KPIs, team performance, and efficiency.

This is a night shift cover role, meaning that flexibility is required to swap between shifts to cover both of our night shifts when sickness and holidays require it.

Key accountabilities & deliverables

• Direct and challenge team members to comply with all requirements and behaviors of their role profile.
• Responsible for motivating, leading & coaching of all Team Members.
• Conducting regular monitoring and feedback of Team Members, identifying, evaluating, and developing initiatives to ensure skill and competency levels are maintained.
• Ensure production and conformance to plan targets are met and deploy the labor plan.
• Responsible for Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and potential efficiency; accuracy & waste recording; downtime; packet weights; labor numbers and efficiency.
• Utilize, comply, and maintain all the relevant systems to gather and produce robust management information, i.e., Autostore, Workday, SAP, SFOL, Absence Manager, etc.
• To ensure effective communication between operations team, management & support teams, and engineering between shifts & individual Team Members by utilizing the tiered accountability process & appropriate escalation points.
• To ensure staff understand & demonstrate the importance of high levels of customer service (both internal and external), identify ways to improve customer satisfaction.
• Continuously identify ways to reduce costs, improve standards, and efficiency in all areas.
• Ensure Quality Management Systems and procedures are followed in all areas of responsibility.
• Achieve and maintain hygiene audit standards always.
• Take accountability for ensuring all relevant documentation is completed to the required standard.
• Responsible for identifying & resolving problems in all areas of their remit (staff, production & equipment).