Manufacturing Manager

At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations’​ worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 141 years.

Are you an experienced Manufacturing Leader, an Engineering Manager or Operations Manager working within an fmcg manufacturing environment and looking for your next challenge as a manufacturing leader?

Together with the General Manager, you’ll lead the Stockton site team, and will have direct responsibility for driving the Engineering and Manufacturing agenda to deliver our five-year plan through people, process and products in our bakery. The bakery has recently had substantial investment and we have continued growth plans.

The Recipe

As our Manufacturing Lead in Stockton, you’ll deliver a significant change agenda supporting our vision of being Britain’s Best Food business and having manufacturing excellence. This encompasses our strategy around safety, quality, service, cost and people development. Not only an experienced Operational professional, you’ll also be a credible and inspirational leader. You will lead, support, and develop the site through your expertise in high performing teams, continuous cost improvement and benchmarking vs best practice ultimately achieving operational excellence.

Safety is our number one priority, and you will be responsible for driving our Health, Safety and Environment strategy, legislation and company standards. You will lead and engage the full manufacturing team to deliver the annual HSE plan and drive the HSE culture change through their involvement, ownership and responsibility for HSE activities.

This role leads the development and delivery of the site manufacturing plan, budgets, capex proposals and projects, as well as monitoring and driving performance.  It supports the General Manager and leads the site management team ensuring enterprise leadership, continuous improvement, engagement and strong communication are effective and embedded across the site.

Cross functional working and collaboration is a way of life in Warburtons. As well as developing your team of talented functional managers, we are looking for someone with a service mentality who looks to support and work with our colleagues in commercial, distribution and the wider business.

Essential IngredientsExperience at Senior Manager level with effective leadership and people management experience
Knowledge and experience of leadership in a FMCG environment
Knowledge and experience of continuous improvement, world-class manufacturing techniques.
Comfortable with data and using it to track performance trends and prioritise action plans.
Awareness of latest technology and techniques applicable to drive reliability, efficiency, yield and damage improvements and ensure best practice
A strong and confident communicator both written and verbal
Be influential, articulate and persuasive. A relationship builder- establishing credibility with both internal and external contacts at all levels
Knowledge of legislation relating to a manufacturing environment (including employment law).
H&S/Food Safety/food hygiene systems & legislation knowledge e.g. COSHH, IOSH.
Quality systems & knowledge of HACCP – able to ensure the sites output meet required quality standards.
Experience of working with Trade Unions
Financial acumen and ability to deliver challenging cost targets in a competitive market.
A leader with experience of creating and implementing strategic plans
Extra DoughAt last and by no means yeast you will want to know what your breads worth:

Competitive Base Salary and Car allowance
A slice of the annual profits
Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you, so you will have 5 weeks holiday and bank hols with the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days each year!
Award winning pension scheme
Private medical insurance, health screening and life assurance
Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.

Profile:

As ‘the UK’s No. 1 Bakery Brand’ we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a fifth-generation family, with the sixth generation starting to join the company, supplying over 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 15 depots, producing a range of over 70 products including gluten and wheat free. Our family of 5,000 colleagues throughout the UK, have recognised us as a Sunday Times Top 25 Best Big Companies’ to work for.

Family and values are what makes us different, and we are a proud bunch, join us and you too could be proud to be Warburtons.