Production Manager - Assembly

at  Bakkavor

WHAT WE DO.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Production Assembly Manager to join our busy food manufacturing facility in Aston, Cheshire. The site make specialty hand-crafted flatbreads, baguettes, doughballs and ciabattas for customers including Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsburys.

Accountabilities:

• Using Continuous Improvement tools and techniques e.g. Performance Improvement Plans, team result plans, value stream mapping, line balancing and problem solving, utilising the Bakkavor Operating System e.g. RedZone to ensure that targets are met and regularly challenged / improved upon.
• To lead and drive standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within areas / shift, to ensure that both Business and Customer standards are maintained.
• Attend daily factory reviews and coach team members to ensure the quality of the meetings and actions is to the right standard. Accountable for delivering high quality Top Loss/ Kaizen activity for shift.
• To pro-actively review and manage the performance of all team members across your shift. Utilise KPI data to benchmark, challenge and drive performance improvement.
• In conjunction with the Learning and Development team, ensure the effective ownership, planning and delivery of training and development activity across your shift.
• In conjunction with the Process Development team, support the co-ordination of NPD activity ensuring teams have the information, resources and time to deliver successful process from product trial to launch.
• Effectively plan, organise and measure labour and material requirements to ensure that both short- and long- term agreed targets are met.
• Agree core manning detail for shift, including skills required and work closely with the central recruitment team ensuring the team recruitment process meets the business needs. Takes accountability for labour turnover performance.
• Develop and maintain an engagement culture where effective two-way communication is welcomed, clear and embraced by all colleagues and encourages the Bakkavor values

You will lead the Assembly area and be responsible for its performance and deputise for the Factory Manager as required. Our assembly operation operates 24/7 delivering finished goods to our Distribution Centre in Crewe throughout the day. Helping you to deliver this, you will have 4 Shift Production Managers along with 2 other direct reports (Raw Materials controller & Logistics Senior Team Leader). You will work closely and effectively with support functions including H&S, OPEX, Engineering, Planning, Technical, Process and HR.

Accountabilities:

• Using Continuous Improvement tools and techniques e.g. Performance Improvement Plans, team result plans, value stream mapping, line balancing and problem solving, utilising the Bakkavor Operating System e.g. RedZone to ensure that targets are met and regularly challenged / improved upon.
• To lead and drive standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within areas / shift, to ensure that both Business and Customer standards are maintained.
• Attend daily factory reviews and coach team members to ensure the quality of the meetings and actions is to the right standard. Accountable for delivering high quality Top Loss/ Kaizen activity for shift.
• To pro-actively review and manage the performance of all team members across your shift. Utilise KPI data to benchmark, challenge and drive performance improvement.
• In conjunction with the Learning and Development team, ensure the effective ownership, planning and delivery of training and development activity across your shift.
• In conjunction with the Process Development team, support the co-ordination of NPD activity ensuring teams have the information, resources and time to deliver successful process from product trial to launch.
• Effectively plan, organise and measure labour and material requirements to ensure that both short- and long- term agreed targets are met.
• Agree core manning detail for shift, including skills required and work closely with the central recruitment team ensuring the team recruitment process meets the business needs. Takes accountability for labour turnover performance.
• Develop and maintain an engagement culture where effective two-way communication is welcomed, clear and embraced by all colleagues and encourages the Bakkavor values.