Production Operations Manager

Sourdough Sophia; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff massage

Free lunch

Free coffee

Pastries and bread every day

Staff wellbeing services

Job summary

Sourdough Sophia in the United Kingdom is seeking a Production Operations Manager to build the systems and the team that let us scale, while keeping our production calm, safe and brilliant. You’ll lead the shift from the line, coaching our senior bakers and pastry chefs, and you’ll develop SOPs, routines and the production schedule to turn new products into everyday output.

You’ll own food safety and compliance, track yield, waste and cost per unit, and drive improvement projects to keep

Qualifications

• Experience leading bakery/food production operations.
• Ability to develop SOPs and scalable processes.
• Strong focus on yield, waste, and cost per unit.

Responsibilities

• Lead the shift from the line, coaching senior bakers and pastry chefs.
• Develop SOPs and routines to enable scaling and new product introduction.
• Run production schedule, rotas and logistics from packing to delivery.
• Own food safety and compliance; track yield, waste and cost per unit.
• Lead improvement projects to keep standards consistent across sites and wholesale.

Skills

Leadership

Production planning

Food safety

Process optimization

Coaching

Job description

Pay

We’re looking for a Production Operations Manager to build the systems and team that let us scale, and to keep our production calm, safe and brilliant while we do.

You’ll lead the shift from the line, coaching our senior bakers and pastry chefs. You’ll build the SOPs and routines that make us ready to scale, turn new products into everyday production, and run the production schedule, rotas and cover logistics from packing to delivery. You’ll own food safety and compliance, track yield, waste and cost per unit, and lead improvement projects, keeping standards consistent across sites and wholesale.

About Sourdough Sophia

Our priority is people

Everyone in our team in valued, supported, loved and their progress is nurtured.

Working in hospitality is always going to be hard, but it shouldn't be unfair. We believe that hard work done the right way can be the most rewarding experience for you.

We hire our reward every individual based on their merits, making the experience fair for everyone whilst enabling everyone to reach their true potential.

We are set to do things differently. Fair pay and a supportive and positive working environment in which we strive for greatness, but where you can feel safe to take risks, make mistakes and learn along the journey.

Why work for us?

We are set to expand over the coming years and we are looking for incredible talent to help us achieve our ambitious goals!

Join our team, and you will:

• Be part of an incredibly close-knit team with a detailed understanding of baking, cooking, hospitality and coffee.


• Have excellent opportunities for career progression in a company with big goals.


• Be given paid training opportunities.


• Enjoy staff perks, including staff massage, free lunch, free coffee, pastries and bread every day, access to specialist third-party staff wellbeing services and more.