Packhouse Manager: Automation & Throughput

Dyson Farming Limited; Carrington; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary performance-relatedbonus

Pension scheme with 6% employercontrib

Life assurance

Job summary

Dyson Farming Limited seeks a Packhouse Manager to take full operational ownership of the strawberry packhouse. You will lead a team of supervisors and a seasonal packing workforce, driving automation and efficiency while meeting customer specification and on-time dispatch.

You will manage labour, budget, throughput and quality from intake to dispatch, with strong people leadership and a focus on safety and data-driven performance.

Qualifications

• Proven production or packhouse management experience.
• Ability to build and manage a labour budget and explain cost per kg movement.
• Confident with automation and line technology; able to hold suppliers to account on performance.
• Strong people leadership; capable of upskilling and developing supervisors into autonomous roles.
• Understanding of food safety, BRCGS and customer audit requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the packhouse labour plan, team management and cost against budget.
• Deliver dispatch to budgeted overtime limits, manage planning, shift control and workload with harvesting and commercial teams.
• Manage throughput, weight giveaway and equipment performance.
• Develop systems and lead the automation programme.
• Own product quality and integrity from intake through to dispatch.
• Deliver customer specification, punnet format and lead times in full, working with the technical team on standards, audits and complaints.
• Responsible for product packaging, specification and intake quality, ordering, stock control and supplier performance.
• Manage line uptime, changeover time and planned maintenance with the site Maintenance Manager.
• Own dispatch and transport, including haulage planning and loading, communications with hauliers.
• Hold each pack line leader to a line-level scorecard, reviewed weekly.
• Develop supervisors into autonomous shift managers, with named cover for every critical position on every shift.
• Own packhouse health, safety and hygiene — machinery guarding, manual handling and safe systems of work.
• Own the accuracy of packhouse data feeding all site systems and use it to manage shift performance real time and reporting.
• Responsible for management of direct reports workload and overtime to budget.

Skills

People leadership

Budget management

Automation & line tech

Health & safety

English fluency

Job description

Dyson Farming Limited seeks a Packhouse Manager to take full operational ownership of the strawberry packhouse. You will lead a team of supervisors and a seasonal packing workforce, driving automation and efficiency while meeting customer specification and on-time dispatch.

You will manage labour, budget, throughput and quality from intake to dispatch, with strong people leadership and a focus on safety and data-driven performance.