Operations Shift Manager - Wakefield, United Kingdom - Warburtons

Warburtons
Warburtons
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Wakefield, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Competitive salary with an excellent benefits package including: annual bonus, award winning pension scheme, life assurance, and much more


Are you an Operations Manager with manufacturing and engineering experience working at the top of your game and looking for a new challenge?


Working as part of the Site Manufacturing Team, you'll be responsible for managing the safe, efficient, and effective operation of two bread production plants and a bread roll plant.

You will also be the lead person on site when working across weekends.

Withexperience across operations, your role will be to manage two shift teams to meet deadlines and targets to ensure our quality products reach customers on time and in full.


The Recipe


The role is at the heart of our site management team and you will be obsessive about continuously improving and managing your team to be the very best they can be.

We need you to be passionate, values-led and customer service focused. We take pride in ourfresh products that are delivered directly to our customers daily, on time and in full.


Safety is our number one priority and you will be responsible for ensuring our Health, Safety & Environmental principles are never compromised ensuring compliance to legislation and company standards.

You will lead and engage your team to deliver the annualHSE plan and drive the HSE culture change through team involvement, ownership and responsibility for HSE activities.


Cross functional working is a way of life within Warburtons and this role interacts with a variety of different areas of the business.

You will need to be a credible, all-round operations manager and leader of people. Plant efficiencies, damage levels andefficient change-overs are all KPI's along with quality, freshness and service level measures.

To keep any operations team moving you'll need to be an excellent planner at the same time as keeping an eye on KPI's and performance standards.

We are also passionate about our people. You'll be a strong people manager and communicator, able to engage and lead your Team Managers.

As well as inspiring your team, you will be able to influence the wider team and keep your team one step ahead by ensuringtheir ongoing growth with strong, relevant personal development plans.

This is a fast-paced, wide ranging manufacturing role in a site that operates 24/7.

To juggle all that this job brings, you will certainly have to be highly-organised and flexible, making things happen when the need arises.


Essential Ingredients

-An experienced and proven manager of people working in a manufacturing environment, ideally FMCG

  • Able to work shift patterns that include weekends, evenings and bank holidays
  • Planning and budgetary experience, stock movement and control and KPI management
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Numerate with attention to detail & excellent organisational skills
  • Good time management and able to work under pressure
  • Experience of managing HR processes including absencemanagement, 121's, employee engagement and performance improvement
  • A great allround team player, able to roll up your sleeve and get involved in all areas of Operational Management as required

Extra Dough
Last, and by no means least you will want to know what your bread is worth:

  • Competitive Base Salary & Benefits
  • A slice of the annual profits
  • Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you so you, we will start you on 29 days holiday and give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra 5 days holiday each year
  • Award winning pension scheme
  • Private medical insurance and Life assurance
  • Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
  • Continued investment in your personal development
  • Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew
  • 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

About us
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, producinga 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.

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 aspectwhich 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.

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