Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Production Manager to join a well-established food manufacturer based in Plymouth, Devon.  The role is based on working a weekend night shift (6pm-6am Thursday-Saturday & 1 in every 4 Sunday).  You can expect to achieve a salary of up to £40,000.

The Role

Reporting into the operations manager, you will be responsible for the weekend shift which has around 30 members of staff including 2 Line Leaders.

Duties will include:

• Leading & innovating the production shift to deliver against KPI’s
• Motivating your team
• Coaching, developing & mentoring staff and proactively improving the day to day running of the production lines
• Managing all day to day factory operations including H&S / Training, etc
• Improving downtime and understand Production Losses
• Strict adherence to, implementation of, and responsibility for all site rules including Health & Safety and HR (people management e.g. appraisals, disciplinary, appraisal, performance issues, sickness)

• Ensure optimal output and efficiency of all lines

The Person

• Have previous supervisory/managerial experience
• Be prepared to be hands on
• FMCG experience
• Excellent verbal and written skills with the ability to communicate at all levels
• Be able to multi-task and have good organisational skills
• Be constantly mindful of ethical standards both personally and professionally always showing integrity, reliability and trustworthiness

JK Recruitment

Please be aware that we receive a high volume of interest for each of our roles and we cannot guarantee we will be in touch if you are not shortlisted for the position. At JK Recruitment we aim to provide the best possible opportunity to take your career forward, we will be in touch within the next seven days if your application is successful. Please continue to visit www.jkrecruit.co.uk to keep up to date with further vacancies.

We regret that this client is not prepared to sponsor work permit or work permit transfer applications. Candidates must be able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK.