Job Description

Title: Factory Manager

Location: Bo\'ness

Salary: \xc2\xa350,000 to \xc2\xa356,000

Shift: Sunday-Thursday

Shift Hours: 14.00 to 22:30 (with flexibility to meet business needs)

Benefits: \xc2\xa38,400 Car Allowance

20% Bonus Scheme

34 Days Annual Leave

Private Healthcare (Including Family)
Pension

Access to MyRewards (Discount Website)

We\'re proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a talented Factory Manager with plenty of support and opportunity. And empower you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too.

About Us:

We\'re the biggest name you\'ve never heard of. You\'ve probably eaten our food - you just didn\'t realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We\'re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury\'s and Waitrose). We\'re ambitious. We\'re full of ideas. And we\'re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

Our Business:

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.

Job Details

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Factory Manager (Backshift) to join our Bo\'ness site. Bakkavor Salads Bo\'ness, based near Edinburgh in West Lothian, employs around 1200 people across 2 separate manufacturing sites and each year it produces millions of fresh prepared salads and ready meals for a prestigious retail customer base.

Reporting into the Head of Operations the successful candidate will lead the factory operation across the backshift in a safe and technically compliant manner, delivering against our Vision, Business Strategy, Financial targets, and Customer expectations.

Key Accountabilities:

• 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 that achieves a high GMP standard.
• Inputs, drives, 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.

Skills and Experience

Experience within a Food Manufacturing environment, strong leadership skills, great CI skills and a clear vision for getting the best out of people and processes - will be key to for this role. Ability to work as the key contact across both the Bo\'ness sites.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We\'re proud to deliver outstanding quality, service, and value to our customers. We\'re proud to be the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK. And we\'re proud of the hard work, quality focus and loyalty of our people. Join our team and we\'ll make you proud too.

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Bakkavor

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.

Category: Manufacturing

Location:

Boness, GB

Date: 1 Sep 2023

Req ID: 16027

Bakkavor