Zone Manager

Our Vacancies; Spalding; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore in Spalding is seeking a Production Zone Manager to lead a team and ensure consistent application of processes within a department to meet production plans. The role involves shift supervision Sunday to Thursday nights, driving productivity, and maintaining food safety standards.

You will monitor processes, manage labour, and act to improve quality, efficiency and safety across the zone, with development opportunities and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Advanced Food Hygiene accreditation.
• HACCP level 2 and IOSH level 2 qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Deliver department/zone productivity and efficiency targets to meet the production plan.
• Continuously monitor materials, processes and the production environment for food safety compliance.
• Review labour deployment to align with production requirements.
• Communicate with the operations team and report progress, flagging risks to volumes and standards.
• Monitor equipment effectiveness (OEE) for performance and reliability.
• Promote Health, Safety and Environment culture and accurate incident reporting.
• Identify opportunities for sustainable improvements in quality, performance and profit.
• Develop team capability and ensure clear objectives for colleagues.
• Contribute to customer and technical process reviews to improve quality and consistency.

Skills

Team leadership

Production mgmt

Food safety

Continuous improvement

Communication

Job description

Why Greencore?

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.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Here atSpalding, we have a team of around 540 colleagues. We produce coleslaw, potato salad, salad bar bulk products (2kg), pasta salads and couscous/grains for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Morrisons, Co-op, Asda, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Nando’s and Pizza Hut. Our Spalding site has a restaurant with hot food available to all our colleagues.

What you’ll be doing

AsProduction Zone Manageryou willlead 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:**Sunday - Thursday Night(22:00 - 06:00)

• 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
• 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.