Manufacturing Site Leader

Job Title : Manufacturing Site Leader

Location : Tuscany Park, Wakefield

Contract type : Permanent

Salary :
Competitive

We are looking for a Site Leader who will drive excellence, empower teams, and shape our future at our site based at Tuscany Park here in Wakefield. This is a fantastic opportunity to take our site to the next level and inspire a world‑class manufacturing culture.

To lead and engage the Manufacturing teams at the site to deliver daily customer service targets with effective resource planning, whilst managing HSE, Quality, Food Safety and cost. To drive a Manufacturing Excellence continuous improvement culture to deliver sustained performance improvements. The role has full responsibility for the site facilities and services across both Manufacturing and Distribution functions.

Lead and engage the manufacturing team to deliver the annual HSE plan and drive the HSE culture change through team engagement, involvement and responsibility for HSE activities.

Ensure control measures are incorporated into Standard Operating Procedures and adequately trained and verified.

Responsible for maintenance and improvements of site infrastructure to meet legal compliance and fit for purpose.

Lead and engage the manufacturing team to ensure that all internal and external food & feed safety standards and requirements are met.

Provide the resources to identify and deliver effective hygiene plans to meet Warburtons standards and legislative requirements with appropriate validation and verification plans in place for new products.

Ensure control measures are incorporated into Standard Operating Procedures and adequately trained and verified.

Lead and engage the site manufacturing team to deliver quality and freshness performance targets.

Delivery of product improvement through and the Evidence led quality strategy implementation in collaboration with Centre UBQ team.

Ensure systems are in place to effectively review and investigate consumer quality complaints and action plans for improvement.

Alongside the Centre Technical & Innovation teams provide resources to plan and deliver sku changes and product innovation from trials through to launch.

Provides leadership and direction to the manufacturing Team and is accountable for site performance.

In close collaboration with other functions across the business, leads the site manufacturing team in idea generation and delivery of national and local strategies to deliver the Fuel our Future strategy.

Identify and deliver the site manufacturing revenue and capital budgets and manage revenue expenditure to ensure budget targets are achieved.

Lead the manufacturing team to ensure customer service targets are delivered through a focus on manufacturing reliability, plant resilience, and performance to plan.

Working in collaboration with site Distribution colleagues to eliminate issues and continually improve processes.

Lead, motivate, develop and coach the site manufacturing team to ensure they achieve all agreed KPI’s, personal targets and development plans as identified in their role profiles and via performance review meetings.

Manage underperformance promptly through regular reviews and appropriate actions plans.

Lead the site manufacturing team talent process at all levels to ensure that talent is identified, and nurtured and succession plans are in place.

Select and recruit appropriate staff.

Lead and engage the site manufacturing team to deliver the MFF strategy and drive a continuous improvement culture to improve plant performance. Provide the resources to identify CI opportunities and promote the lean manufacturing philosophies, tools & techniques working with the Centre Manufacturing Excellence team.

Work collaboratively with other manufacturing teams to identify and share best practice across manufacturing systems and processes, demonstrate the drive to deliver projects OTIF.

Identify and manage the execution of site-based projects.

Performance - ensure that all employees are aware of the Key Performance…