Production Manager Bridgwater, England
Job description
Production Manager – Drink’s Manufacturing
Refresco UK, Bridgwater, Somerset (just off J23 of the M5)
Competitive salary, plus annual bonus, good pension scheme and private healthcare
Refresco the world’s leading independent soft drinks manufacturer seeks an agile, organised and dynamic, Production Manager to join our team at Refresco Bridgwater, Somerset (just off J23 of the M5). This is a key leadership role within the factory operations team, a role model for our colleagues, focused on delivery of critical operational KPI's.
Refresco Bridgwater is one of the largest and most progressive drink's manufacturing sites globally. Here are some stats for you -158,000 square metres, 4 factories, a large warehouse and transport facility under one roof, the latest, leading edge engineering technology producing 800 million litres per annum of soft drinks for our many own label and contract manufacturing customers from 28 production lines. In addition, we have high value ongoing CAPEX investment projects for implementation at the site throughout 2023.
This is an excellent career opportunity if you are an experienced manufacturing professional seeking a new challenge in a growing and stable company, or if you are looking to take that next step up in your manufacturing operations career. Either way you will be working with and learning from drink’s manufacturing industry experts!
About the Role
As Production Manager you will lead a large team including Shift Managers as direct reports who work on a 24/7 shift pattern, 12-hour shifts, 4 on 4 off.
You will have a good idea of the main duties and tasks involved as you will already be working in manufacturing, but to be clear here are some of the main responsibilities of the Production Manager role:
- Lead your team to deliver against operational KPI’s including customer service, OEE optimisation, health & safety and quality.
- Lead your team to improve and develop in all aspects of operational excellence via the application of continuous improvement techniques and to acive personal and team objectives.
- Drive up employee engagement and act as role model for Refresco company values.
- Take ownership and responsibility of all aspects of production for your shift teams.
- Take full accountability for the management of agreed budgets specific to your area of control (labour and materials).
- Work with forecasting and planning teams on site and centrally to agree, review, challenge the production plans.
- Ensure SOP’s are up to date, fit for purpose and trained/briefed to your teams.
- Ensure that you and your team are always audit ready and in compliance with site quality management system.
- Drive health and safety best practice in your areas of responsibility and manage and coach your team so that HSE principles are always complied with.
- Build strong and positive working relationships cross functionally with all colleagues across the site and with key stakeholders in central head office functions.
About You
You will have experience working within manufacturing, and managing, leading and motivating a team within FMCG Manufacturing, ideally food or drinks. You will have an in-depth knowledge of production processes, and a proven record of meeting targets and improving performance, through continuous improvement methodology. You will also have a good knowledge of quality systems and a passion for ensuring quality standards are met and maintained, plus a very good record on health and safety with up to date practical knowledge applied in a manufacturing environment.
Of course, you will need to have great communication skills both verbal and written and the ability to build strong working relations at all levels and with key stakeholders.
As a high-profile manager, you will be a role model to many others and ultimately, we want our people to align with, and resonate the Refresco Values as we believe these are what have made us, and will continue to make us, successful. Find out more about our Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
Reward & Benefits
The working week is 38 hours per week, Monday to Friday. The salary for this role is dependent on experience. We offer an annual bonus incentive and a good company pension scheme, personal private healthcare, 3 x basic salary life assurance plus 25 days paid holiday. We have free on-site parking at the site.
We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling - https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/- as well as Perkbox – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks and wellbeing tools for all employees - https://www.perkbox.com/uk
About Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks and we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and invested £1.25 billion in expanding our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 13 billion litres from 78 manufacturing plants in 15 countries and we’re only just getting started…
Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1600 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and deliver them where they need to be at the right time.
Refresco are an equal opportunities employer, and we apply fairness and transparency for all within our recruitment process.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Yearly bonus
Application question(s):
- Please state your salary expectations for this position.
- Do you have previous experience in a management production role in FMCG manufacturing?
- Do you have the legal right to work in the UK without a visa or employer sponsorship?
- Do you have experience of leading a large team within a fast moving manufacturing environment?
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 14594
