Factory Manager - Nights - Pizza Holbeach

Factory Manager (Nights) - Pizza Holbeach, Bakkavor

Monday - Friday
Competitive Salary + Car Allowance
Highly competitive reward package including Group Pension
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Due to an internal promotion, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Factory Manager (Nights) to join our Pizza & Bread team at the Holbeach site. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in spearheading factory operations on nights with the following key duties:

• 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.

If you are an experience professional who has operated in a similar role before looking for a step into a progressive organisation, this is a fantastic opportunity.

We are the leading provider 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 Pizza is based in Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire, and employs over 1,000 employees. It specialises in high volume pizza bakery manufacturing. It is one of five factories that are part of the Bakkavor Pizza & Bread sector in the UK...... click apply for full job details