Senior Production Manager - Backshift

Location: On site / Glasgow, UK

Job type: Permanent / Full-time

Sector and subsector: Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry and Food Processing | General

Salary: Negotiable salary

Reporting directly to the site Operations Manager, the Senior Production Manager will achieve business value, improve customer service, drive employee performance and assist operations manager in the efficient management of the operation. The senior production manager will ensure that targets are met and regularly challenged and improved on withing two production hall areas. Delivering high standards of quality, ensuring product produced is to customer specification in line with critical control points, GMP and H&S requirements.

• Setting the correct standards and expectations within the team
• Product Quality and customer specifications
• Process compliance including Hold/ Non-con avoidance
• Specifications Adherence
• Managing and Facilitating structured meetings at different levels
• Performance Management & Accountability
• Holiday and Absence Management
• Yield Performance / Improvement
• Correct use of systems and hardware
  - Innova
  - Piranha / Shire

• The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience of management of a Food Manufacturing facility.
• Must have experience working to BRC standards.
• Significant experience at Management Level with leadership and people management experience.
• Attentive to detail
• Flexible, adaptable, keen to learn and support others’ learning
• Speaking, writing and understanding good spoken and written English language. (This is an essential health & safety, traceability, team management and quality control requirement which will be tested as part of the recruitment process)
• Good facilitator and motivator
• Learning and implementing new information quickly
• Strong team leader
• Accreditation Food Hygiene equivalent at level 3 and HACCP cert