Factory Manager

Factory Manager

We rise to the challenges together

Salary - Competitive

Benefits - Excellent rewards package including – £8,400 car allowance per annum, up to 20% short-term bonus, private medical insurance for yourself and family.

Location - Tilmanstone, Kent

Ways of Working - Site based

Hours of work - Sunday to Thursday, 08.30-17.00 (working hours to be flexible to meet with business needs)

Contract Type – Permanent

Why join us?

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

What we do

In our Tilmanstone Salads site we produce first class Salad’s products including leafy salad bags, leafy salad bowls, takeaway salad meals, prepared vegetables & side dishes for one of our most prestigious customers in our state-of-the-art factory.

About the role.

Responsible for managing people and food safety standards whilst ensuring the Factory operate at optimum efficiency. This role will be at the forefront of ensuring the business satisfies customer expectations on efficiency, quality, food safety and service.

Role Accountabilities:

Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues within the factory and that as a minimum, this meets the standards set out in the Group Health and Safety policy. Ensures the health and safety strategy is understood and effectively deployed for their site.

Lead and drive standards of quality, food safety, hygiene and housekeeping within site to ensure that both Business and Customer standards are maintained.

Input, understand and translate the manufacturing strategy into a “living” Factory Operational Plan which is clearly understood and owned by the team.

Responsible for determining core manning requirements for all factory areas in conjunction with relevant stakeholders e.g. Planning. Working alongside the talent acquisition team to recruit the right talent for the factory operation.

Support NPD activity ensuring that the relevant information is provided to key stakeholders on product feasibility. Deliver successful product launches, including representing their team at site NPD meetings (pre and post launch) and communicating outputs.

Ensure all colleagues within the team are updated and well informed on Business performance. Develop, maintain and lead an engagement culture where effective two-way communication is welcomed, clear, cross functional and embraced by all colleagues.

About you

Experience within FMCG, food manufacturing or a similar industry

A manager who is analytical with the ability to work with data to drive performance within agreed KPI’s.

Being able to fully understand all elements within the factory and produce plans to drive efficiencies and performance improvements.

At least 3 years’ (recent) experience at a level of similar overall responsibility within a manufacturing environment.

A reasonable understanding of commercial requirements applicable to operational requirements.

Able to demonstrate improving efficiencies and reducing downtime, labour and other associated costs.

Experience of dealing with high profile customers being able to lead factory tours demonstrating strengths of the business.

A good understanding of both H&S and Environmental requirements being able to lead cross functional teams in driving performance in these areas.

A manager that fully understands Food Safety, Technical and hygiene related issues and is able to lead the Operational team in both adherence to standards and improved GMP.

What you’ll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

Car allowance £8,400 per annum

Bonus up to 20%

A stakeholder pension scheme

Personal accident Insurance

Free independent mortgage advice

Employee assistance programme

A range of voluntary benefits

Holiday purchase scheme

Additional life assurance

Dental & hospital cash plans

Discounted tutoring for children

Access to financial learning tools

Affordable loans via your salary

Proud to be and loyal service awards.

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and ensure fair, transparent recruitment practices. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy (Inclusion & Diversity Policy).

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