Senior Production Manager

Greencore; Bradley Stoke; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food manufacturer in Bradley Stoke is seeking a Senior Production Zone Manager to lead teams and ensure adherence to food safety manufacturing standards. The position emphasizes productivity, efficiency targets, and development of team capabilities in a complex manufacturing environment. Ideal candidates should possess advanced food hygiene accreditation and HACCP qualifications. This role offers competitive salary and comprehensive job-related benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4× salary

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills in a manufacturing environment.
• A deep understanding of food safety and hygiene standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead colleagues and manage consistent application of processes.
• Monitor productivity and efficiency targets according to production plans.
• Ensure compliance with food safety manufacturing standards.

Skills

Experience of managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environment

Advanced Food Hygiene accreditation

HACCP level 2 qualification

IOSH level 2 qualification

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast‑moving business, we’re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, sushi, cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct‑to‑store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move, the next promotion or an entirely new career path. We welcome applications from anyone eager to grow with us.

Here in Bristol, we are the UK’s leading producer of chilled sauces and soups, supplying over 37% of the UK’s chilled sauces and 20% of the country’s chilled soups to Sainsbury’s and Asda.

What you’ll be doing

Shift: Nights, 4 on 4 off (18:00 – 06:00)

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

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 complies with food safety manufacturing standards.

Monitor and review labour deployment to ensure that availability and alignment fit with the production requirements of the department.

Effectively communicate with the operations team, reporting 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 with 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 that can make sustainable improvements in all areas including quality, performance and profit and the ultimate 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 not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Experience of managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environment
• Holds an advanced Food Hygiene accreditation

Has a HACCP level 2 qualification and IOSH level 2 qualification. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4× salary
• Company share save scheme
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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