Cheese Factory Shift Manager
Pay: £44,300.00 per year including night shift premium + benefits.
Location: Scorrier, Redruth, Cornwall, Redruth TR16 5BU
Role: Permanent contract full time, 40 hours per week
Shifts: Alternating weeks of days and night shifts – 6.00 to 6.00.
You can choose one of the following shift options:
- Thursday, Friday, Saturday + every other Wednesday or
- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday + every other Wednesday.
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What’s on offer …
- A pivotal role within a new flagship dairy plant.
- The chance to shape a new team and embed best practice from day one.
- Extensive training and development to deepen operational and leadership capability.
- A career within one of Cornwall’s most admired family businesses, built on trust, teamwork.
Rodda’s is opening a brand-new, purpose-built cottage cheese facility – and we’re looking for exceptional leaders to run it. This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of a new production line, shape your team and play a leading role in launching a category-defining new product for a long standing, market leading brand.
This Shift Manager position comes with full responsibility for people, safety, performance and product quality. You’ll be the most senior manager on site during out-of-hours periods, trusted to make decisions that safeguard our standards and keep production running smoothly.
What the role involves …
You will lead a production team through the entire cottage cheese manufacturing process, ensuring tight control of key parameters such as temperature, pH, curd size, mix ratios and hygiene standards. You’ll oversee start-ups, in-process checks, calibrations and real-time decision-making to keep the process fully compliant with HACCP, audit-ready and achieving daily performance, yield and efficiency targets.
As a leader you’ll be held accountable for motivating, coaching and engaging your team as well as for absence management, skills development, and performance improvement. You will champion Rodda’s values, set standards on the shift, drive continuous improvement, and work collaboratively with Technical, Engineering and Planning teams to deliver a consistently exceptional product.
What we’re looking for …
- Strong leadership experience in high speed food manufacturing or a comparable high-risk, high-compliance environment.
- A confident decision-maker who thrives when leading teams and owning shift performance.
- A technically capable operator who understands process control, food safety, and quality systems.
- Someone who can balance firmness and fairness, build strong team culture, and maintain excellent communication.
- Someone who is detail conscious, meticulous and hard working.
- A person who leads with responsibility, openness and a commitment to “doing the right thing” – even when it’s difficult..
Company Benefits
- Free milk and fruit
- Use of on site gym
- Generous pension salary exchange scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free counselling and legal advice when required
- Health cash plan with free counselling /legal advice and a variety of treatments/therapies
- Life assurance
Rodda’s commitment to supporting our employees, local community/charities and protecting the environment is fundamental to the business.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £44,300.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
Application question(s):
- Have you worked alternating weeks of days and night previously?
Experience:
- Team management: 3 years (required)
- Factory: 3 years (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Location:
- Redruth TR16 5BU (preferred)
Work Location: In person
