Production Manager
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Deepblue Recruitment
Salary: £36,000 – £45,600 per year
Production Manager Chilled Food Manufacturing
Large Chilled Food Manufacturing operation, growing and profitable is looking for a Production Manager to help drive their business forward. This is a fantastic opportunity for a forward thinking Production Manager within chilled food manufacturing. Manufacturing chilled food products to the UK Grocery Retailers:
The Production Manager will be responsible for:
To run the production department efficiently by ensuring that the daily performance targets are met in line with customer, legal and business requirements. This will be achieved through the management of the operations team and colleagues, developing both Team Leaders and Employees to be a professional, self sufficient, multi disciplined team. To ensure that food materials despatched are safe, legal and of the quality expected by the business and customer.
To measure achievement to budget and challenge any non compliance to better understand the impact and to ensure that corrective action can take place.
To help plan the budget and to ensure that all spend meets budget requirements by accurate measurement systems that track performance.
To investigate new techniques or processes that will remove cost or add profit into the Business.
Proactively work within the senior management team to improve business performance challenging the status quo and supporting other colleagues in order to achieve their own objectives and accountabilities.
Production Manager Key Accountabilities:
Labour Utilisation: To set budget target for the year against sales forecast and measure compliance to budget across the site, daily and monthly. Continually challenge the labour complement to ensure compliance and ensure that agency and overtime budget is controlled.
● Staff Performance: Set KPIs for each department and ensure that this data is filtered back to the team and discussed in management meetings. Challenge non conformances and ensure that recurring negative events are highlighted and eliminated.
Improved performance is achieved through the setting of objectives that are aligned to the business goals and appraising the team against these objectives on a 6 monthly basis.
Team development: Mentor and coach the Team in order to develop a professional mutli-disciplined management team through the provision of appropriate training sessions. In addition the sharing of knowledge and business policy and procedures will help to ensure that they can manage the business in line with the company requirements.
Meat utilisation / Stock Control: Ensure that the movement of stock into and out of the factory is fully reconciled and all products can be accounted for. To investigate processing methods or cutting techniques that will improve meat utilisation and reduce cost in the business.
Business Standards: To ensure the highest standard of food safety and health and safety are maintained within the business and drive strong personnel ethics into the team to ensure it becomes second nature the way we do business
Service: Ensuring all orders are completed to the customers satisfaction, by the correct quality specification in the most cost efficient method.
Health, Safety & Environment: To ensure that all activity at the site is in line with the guidelines from the Health & Safety Executive and the Environmental Agency.
The ideal candidate will have experience of a similar role ideally from a food background attention to detail and a strong communicator with excellent man management skills.
To join this fantastic business in a broad and challenging Production Management role please.
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