Production Manager - Days

Bakkavor Group; Low Fulney Estate; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food manufacturer is looking for a Production Manager to join their team in Spalding. This role involves leading factory shifts, ensuring quality and safety standards are maintained while driving performance improvements. The ideal candidate will have experience in the food industry, strong leadership skills, and the ability to motivate a team. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits such as life assurance, and excellent career progression opportunities. Join a dynamic team committed to quality and innovation.

Benefits

Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)

Short Term Bonus Scheme

22 days holiday

Staff Shop

Stakeholder Pension Scheme

MyBargains Discount Platform

Personal Accident Insurance

Free Independent Mortgage Advice

Private Medical Insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in food industry, especially chilled food or FMCG is preferable.
• Strong leadership and effective communication skills.
• Ability to manage performance and deliver against targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead factory shifts or multiple operational areas.
• Drive standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping.
• Manage the performance of all team members using KPI data.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Team motivation

Education

Intermediate Food Hygiene qualification

IOSHH qualification

Job description

Production Manager - Days (Blue Shift)

We rise to challenges together

Salary : Competitive, depending on experience

Up to 10% bonus, life assurance, and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Location :

Spalding

Ways of Working :

Site Based

Shift :

3's & 2's, 06.00 - 18.00

Contract Type :

Permanent

Why join us?

We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24 / 7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

What we do.

This fantastic opportunity will be based at our Bakkavor Spalding site, which employs over 1,470 people across 3 manufacturing facilities & 1 Distribution Centre. We specialise in making hand crafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups & sauces and mayonnaise.

About the role.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Production Manager to join our expanding team and site.

The Production Manager will lead factory shifts or multiple operational areas, acting as Deputy Factory Manager when required.

Role Accountabilities :

Using Continuous Improvement tools and techniques e.g. Performance Improvement Plans, team result plans, value stream mapping, line balancing and problem solving, utilising the Bakkavor Operating System e.g. RedZone to ensure that targets are met and regularly challenged / improved upon.

To inspire and drive standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within areas / shift, to ensure that both Business and Customer standards are maintained.

Attend daily factory reviews and coach team members to ensure the quality of the meetings and actions is to the right standard. Accountable for delivering high quality Top Loss / Kaizen activity for shift.

To pro-actively review and manage the performance of all team members across your shift. Utilise KPI data to benchmark, challenge and drive performance improvement.

In conjunction with the Learning and Development team, ensure the effective ownership, planning and delivery of training and development activity across your shift.

In conjunction with the Process Development team, support the co-ordination of NPD activity ensuring teams have the information, resources and time to deliver successful process from product trial to launch.

Effectively plan, organise and measure labour and material requirements to ensure that both short- and long- term agreed targets are met.

Agree core manning detail for shift, including skills required and work closely with the central recruitment team ensuring the team recruitment process meets the business needs. Takes accountability for labour turnover performance.

Develop and maintain an engagement culture where effective two-way communication is welcomed, clear and embraced by all colleagues and encourages the Bakkavor values.

About you :

Experience in the food industry, especially chilled food or FMCG is preferable but not essential.

Proven track record of effective interaction with operational and non-operational stakeholders to deliver manufacturing targets while maintaining SHE and food safety standards.

To be able to demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills (verbal, written and presentations). And experience of motivating and engaging teams.

A logical, analytical and clear thinking approach, particularly under pressure.

Has a rounded and balanced sense of judgement, recognising when to elevate issues to more senior levels of management.

Must be adaptable and flexible to working hours and areas.

Intermediate Food Hygiene and IOSHH qualifications are preferable.

What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy :

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Short Term Bonus Scheme
• 22 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice

Employee Assistance Programme

A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)

• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary

Private Medical Insurance (employee)

Free Carparking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor.

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and ensure fair, transparent recruitment practices. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy ( Inclusion & Diversity Policy ).

Find out more and apply.