Production Manager- Material Supply Bo'ness, Scotland
Bakkavor
Full Time
Bo'ness, Scotland
42000 - 46000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Production Manager - Material Supply
Location - Bakkavor Bo'ness
Salary: £42,000 - £46,000 per annum (depending on experience)
Working Hours: 07.30 - 16.00
Days of Work: Tuesday-Saturday
Benefits Package:
Bonus: Up to 5% (depending on the companies annual performance)
25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
Pension
Private Medical
Life Insurance
Flexible benefits package
Bonus: Up to 5% (depending on the companies annual performance)
25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
Pension
Private Medical
Life Insurance
Flexible benefits package
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group
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 Production Manager - Materials Supply we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.
Who are Bakkavor:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
Our Bakkavor business in Bo’ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo’ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.
The Role:
Managing a team you will manage materials supply function for Bakkavor Meals Bo'ness.
You will lead and motivate the teams and drive both individual and functional performance and material efficiency.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Pro-actively managing Health & Safety
- Leading and driving standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within your area through Good Manufacturing Practice (G.M.P.)
- Supporting and encouraging the Bakkavör values and a positive culture within your area, whilst fostering good employee relations
- The recruitment of direct reports and an involvement in all staff recruitment within your area
- Review processes and drive continuous improvement within the team
- Ensure forecast is reviewed and updated.
- Review potential disposals and address root cause issues
- Engender an approach within the team that is production facing and that which would be expected from a support function.
- Ensure stock value is understood and levels challenged in all units.
- Ensure that representation at the daily operations review meeting.
- Liaise with production areas and support functions to pro-actively manage any upcoming issues.
- Supplier relationships
- Attend weekly S&OP meetings.
- Issue weekly KPI pack to site execs.
- Hold a regular Planning/Materials Control meeting.
- Enhance the team performance through development, performance management and recruitment.
What you will need
You will ideally have experience working in a food manufacturing environment and will have led teams in a fast paced manufacturing business. You will understand retailer expectations and how we meet them.
You will be a great leader capable of inspiring and engaging your team, understanding the pressure of a factory environment.
You will ideally have experience working in a food manufacturing environment and will have led teams in a fast paced manufacturing business. You will understand retailer expectations and how we meet them.
You will be a great leader capable of inspiring and engaging your team, understanding the pressure of a factory environment.
What you can expect from us:
When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.
Bakkavor
https://www.bakkavor.com/en/
London, United Kingdom
Ágúst Gudmundsson and Mike Edwards
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
1986
