Factory Manager

Factory Manager – Spalding
£68,000 to £80,000 £8,400 Car Allowance + 20% Bonus + Private Healthcare (Including Family)
Highly competitive reward package including Group Pension

Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm with flexibility to meet business needs

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Factory Manager we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.

Bakkavor Spalding has three factories based on the same site in Spalding, Lincolnshire, employing over 2000 people. These production units produce soups, sauces, dips as part of our meals range as well as salad accompaniments such as coleslaw and pasta salads, sandwich wraps and food to go salads.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Factory Manager to join our Cerberus team at the Spalding site. Cerberus is our highly automated dips unit. Reporting into the General Manager Operations the successful candidate will lead the factory operation in a safe and technically compliant manner, delivering against our Vision, Business Strategy, Financial targets and Customer expectations.

Key Accountabilities:

• To ensure that a safe working environment exists for all employees in their operation and that as a minimum their area meets the standards set out in the Group Health & Safety policy.
• To ensure standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within their factory operation appropriate to a quality food manufacturer.
• Inputs, understands and translates the manufacturing strategy into a ‘living’ Factory Operational Plan which is clearly understood and owned by their team.

• Manages the NPD process within their factory operation to ensure that all trials run successfully and through to product launch.
• Owns training and development and performance management of individuals within their factory operation to enable progression to resource growth or to replace current roles, and to ensure that the necessary skills are in place at all levels.
• Utilise appropriate agreed KPIs as a basis for the development of Performance Improvement Plans within the Factory Operation and cascade these KPIs through the Factory Operational Team, ensuring that they are translated and used at all levels.
• Support and develop a culture within their factory operation where individuals feel able to challenge the status quo and encourage feedback from all levels. Support and implement change processes within their area in line with Bakkavor values.
• Proactively looks at ways to improve their factory operation. A key player in delivering the agreed factory capital expenditure plans within the agreed factory budget.

Proud to be Bakkavor We’re proud to deliver outstanding quality, service, and value to our customers. We’re proud to be the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK. And we’re proud of the hard work, quality focus and loyalty of our people. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

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