First Line Manager

Finsbury Food Group; Hamilton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading speciality bakery manufacturer as a First Line Manager in Hamilton. This exciting opportunity involves leading operational teams, ensuring quality production, and fostering a culture of trust and safety. With a commitment to employee development, this role offers growth potential within a dynamic environment. Be part of a company that values its people and strives for excellence in the bakery industry. If you're ready to take on challenges and make a difference, this role is perfect for you!

Benefits

Free employee assistance programme

Retail discounts

Employee Recognition Awards

Learning and development opportunities

Pension scheme

Death in service benefit

Long Service Awards

On site subsidised canteen

Occupational Health Service

Free Parking

Qualifications

• Experience managing and developing a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to deliver KPIs and maintain strong working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for operating teams to meet operational performance indicators.
• Manage daily budgets and ensure production of quality products.

Skills

Team Management

Manufacturing Process Understanding

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Decision-Making

Job description

FIRST LINE MANAGER - Ops 2

Location: LIGHTBODY, HAMILTON, 73 BOTHWELL ROAD, HAMILTON ML3 0DW

Shift: 4 on 4 off pattern (0600-1800)

Salary: COMPETITIVE

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards and build long-term relationships with multiple major retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centerpiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes to tray bakes through to party cakes.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Operation team as a First Line Manager at our Hamilton site as part of ‘Finsbury Food Group’. 135 years of craft baking skills lie behind the quality of the special branded cakes, sweet snacks and slices we produce in Hamilton and 55 million products are produced each year. Lightbody is the UK’s largest supplier of celebration cakes to UK retailers, with Disney, Mars, Universal and Thorntons all within the portfolio of branded cakes made under licence. We also make a variety of supermarkets’ well-loved own-label cakes and in-store bakery bites.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses, along with great opportunities for growth and development. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our teams, creating great development opportunities.

As the successful candidate, you will be committed and driven to succeed with experience of managing and developing a team. You should have experience of working within a fast-paced manufacturing environment with the ability to manage the challenges that can bring. You should be able to demonstrate delivery of KPIs and be able to build strong working relationships with both your own team and across different functions.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As a First Line Manager, you will provide first line leadership for operating teams to deliver the range of operational performance indicators on a regular basis throughout the day. You will be accountable for the daily operational aspect of your designated area. You will be responsible for ensuring the production of quality products in a safe and organised working environment.

In the role you will be tasked with managing daily budgets, including labour and materials, and will be responsible for reporting on these on a daily basis. You will ensure conformance to daily plans, ensuring that your area is audit and GMP compliant on a daily basis. Our First Line Managers must put safety at the forefront of what they do, ensuring procedures are complied with which includes logging accidents and near misses if they happen. There is also an opportunity for you to get involved in project work with the view of continuously improving the way we do things.

You will be responsible for directly managing a team, managing headcounts, and upskilling and developing team members. You will oversee the absence management of your team and conduct investigations and disciplinaries where appropriate. You will be your team's first point of contact and it is imperative that you are able to communicate clearly. As a First Line Manager, you will promote the company values and foster a culture of trust within the team and wider business to contribute to our wider success.

Ideally this is you!

• Experience in managing people and leading a team
• Can demonstrate sound understanding of the manufacturing process
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to take ownership and work under pressure
• Comfortable making decisions in-line with company policies and processes

What’s in it for you!

• Free employee assistance programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts
• Employee Recognition Awards
• Learning and development opportunities
• Pension scheme
• Death in service benefit
• Long Service Awards
• On site subsidised canteen
• Occupational Health Service
• Free Parking
• Staff Shop

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.

If this sounds like you, and you are ready for an exciting new opportunity, then please apply now!