Production Zone Manager

Greencore Group Lts; Selby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Greencore Group Ltd., a leading food manufacturer in the UK, is seeking a Production Zone Manager for their Selby site. The role involves managing production processes, ensuring food safety compliance, and leading a diverse team to meet productivity targets. Ideal candidates will have experience in manufacturing, advanced food hygiene, HACCP qualifications, and a commitment to safety and quality standards.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to full Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Experience managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Holds advanced Food Hygiene and HACCP level 2 qualifications.
• IOSH level 2 qualification is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead team and manage production processes to meet targets.
• Monitor food safety and operational compliance.
• Communicate with the operations team on production progress.

Skills

Team Management

Food Safety Compliance

Communication

Education

Advanced Food Hygiene accreditation

HACCP level 2 qualification

IOSH level 2 qualification

Job description

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We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Selby we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK's number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914.

We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

What you'll be doing

As Production Zone Manager you will lead nominated colleagues and manage the consistent application of processes within a given department or zone to ensure products are prepared and manufactured to the agreed standards and production plans.

Shift: Nights/18:00 - 06:00 (3 shifts per week on a 6 week rota)

• Deliver department/zone productivity and efficiency targets to produce goods in line with the agreed production plan
• Continuously monitor raw materials/ingredients, all operational processes and the overall production environment to ensure that all activity comply with food safety manufacturing standards
• Monitor and review labour deployment to ensure that the availability and alignment fits with the production requirements of the department
• Effectively communicate with the operations team report progress against plan, highlighting any risks to the achievement of volumes and standards
• Monitors the effectiveness of machinery and equipment, through Optimum Equipment Efficiency (OEE), to ensure performance consistency and reliability
• Promote a Health, Safety and Environment culture within the department, complying to procedures, accident investigation, corrective actions and completing near miss reporting, promoting a safe working environment
• Review operational trends within department / zone. Identify and act on opportunities to that can make sustainable improvements in all areas including quality, performance and profit and the ultimately delivery of the operational plan
• Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all colleagues are clearly focused on their key objectives and are developed to maximise their potential
• Actively contribute to both customer and technical process development reviews to promote improvement to quality and consistency of production

What we're looking for

We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

• Experience of managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environment
• Holds an advanced Food Hygiene accreditation
• If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
• Has a HACCP level 2 qualification and IOSH level 2 qualification

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.