Location: Johnstone’s, 3 Redwood Place, East Kilbride, G74 5PB
Shift: Monday to Friday
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Operations team in the role of Site Manufacturing Lead at our Johnstones site as part of ‘Finsbury Food Group’. Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with multiple major retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centerpiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes to tray bakes through to party cakes.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses that will offer you great opportunities for growth and development. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our teams, creating great development opportunities for everyone.
To be successful in this role, you will need to be passionate about leading and developing people and be driven to achieve results. Previous experience of working in the food processing/manufacturing industry is desirable and you will be experienced in leading people effectively.
This is what you’ll actually do!
In this busy and varied role you will be a vital part of the Operations Team reporting to the Site Lead. In the role you will be a strong leader, leading in a fast moving and constantly changing environment, whilst balancing the demands of customers, management and staff. You will be creating an empowering culture to build a high performing team and you will manage, develop and lead your team through all aspects of operation, competence and development. Delivering against core people metrics, including absence management, performance management, retention and agency usage is imperative. Strong leadership of the Area Managers will help to ensure shared responsibility for delivering all KPI’s and targets.
You will take a continuous improvement approach with employee engagement being part of the unit plans. Clear communication is key to make a success of the position, particularly when setting objectives and during one to one’s or performance management conversations.
Compliance will play a big part of the role, with the need to meet all applicable corporate and legal standards such as safety, quality, hygiene, environment and security. In the role you will deliver the operational strategy and implement and drive continuous improvement across both Manufacturing and Hygiene. This will include your involvement in our CCi Programme and there will be the opportunity for participating in and leading ad hoc projects. You will ensure your team produce consistent product quality that complies with company standards and exceeds customer expectation.
An important part of the role will require you to review working practices, developing your knowledge of the product range and production issues in order to facilitate more flexible working and labour optimization, including new shift patterns and scheduling as well as understanding and owning operational issues. You will also own and review the area organisation structure and headcount standards, ensuring appropriate succession plans, recruitment and development plans are in place.
In the role will be required to work cross functionally with the ability to build positive relationships with key stakeholders including Operations, Health and Safety, Technical, Engineering and People teams.

Ideally this is you!

• Experienced in leading people effectively.
• Demonstrable experience of leading high performing and engaged teams.
• Exposure to continuous and batch process FMCG environment.
• Can demonstrate a sound understanding of the manufacturing processes.
• Previous experience of Supermarket multiples.
• Numerate with ability to understand how to make improvements which influence company profitability.
• Understanding of P&L to gross margin level.
• Ideally educated to at least HND or equivalent in a Business subject.

What’s in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more

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