JOB DESCRIPTION : Senior Production Manager
REPORTING TO: Operations Manager DIRECT REPORTS: Dept Managers
AIMS:
1. To ensure and be responsible that your Area conforms to all company and legislative health and safety requirements and drive a positive Health and Safety Culture within your team.
2. To maintain smooth and cost-effective operations in your Area and ALL customer requirements are met in a cost effective and timely manner regarding quality and delivery times.
3. To maintain the highest quality standards adhering to our customer standards, ensuring food safety legislative requirements are adhered to.
4. To maximize yield and minimise waste in regard to Labour, packaging, utilities and continually monitor and improve efficiencies with the use of visual aids like sic boards and populate daily KPI info.
5. To ensure your Area conforms to current hygiene requirements from a legal and company policy perspective.
6. Constantly review training requirements for your team and action any requirements through the training department.
7. To work closely together with the other Senior Production Manager to help facilitate their job role
MAIN TASKS:
1. To be responsible for the Health & Safety function and awareness in your area. Constantly review working practices either existing or new and review with your team and the Health and Safety Manager SSOW and RA accordingly. Hold regular H&S inspections within your, and other areas with members of your team. Carry out Accident investigations rigorously and in detail and close off and action any findings and actions highlighted. Monitor and record near misses and hazards on a daily basis and report and close off any findings. Promote a positive H&S Culture within your area making sure ALL line managers and operatives are fully aware of H&S issues and make H&S their first priority.
2. To actively take part in planning production and organise labour to facilitate effective and efficient production lines regarding throughputs, order completion and minimise waste.
3. Motivate and supervise team of senior managers, line managers and operatives in order to achieve required production volumes at specified quality and delivery times with minimum cost and waste.
4. Production efficiency monitoring with the use of SIC boards and KPI information on a daily basis.
5. Ensure hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintained from a legal and company perspective, throughout your area.
6. Monitor labour costs for all operational areas against standards and identify opportunities for improvement. Implement identified opportunities.
7. Ensure consistent flow of production data for KPI reports and in conjunction with Factory Manager.
8. Constantly review production methods and systems within your area, in order to improve efficiency
9. Monitor waste levels and take appropriate measures to correct causes of waste
10. Make sure department lines are set up each day to maximise its effectiveness.
11. Promote a positive attitude within your team regarding production and customer satisfaction either through targets, encouragement or overtime to meet requirements.
12. Liaise with HR Manager/Company Training Manager to develop and deliver effective training programmes that will provide appropriate levels of multi-skilling and identify individuals who have the potential for advancement.
13. Work alongside the HR team to ensure issues concerning performance, absenteeism and welfare are dealt with in a fair manner, and be open to additional training to enable employment and ethical legislation changes to be delivered to the business.
14. Conduct regular appraisals within your team to promote targets and identify positive/negative achievements and training/coaching and address as required.
15. In conjunction with the Technical Team and PC’s ensure that all production control procedures are maintained to the standards required by the company, customers and Legal Requirements to support Food Safety.
16. Measure and control holidays and absence within your area to maintain effective manning levels daily and follow company procedures regards return to works and disciplinary procedures.
17. Any other manual or management duties relating to food production as the company may reasonably require.
Pay & Benefit Information:-
Salary : £60k per annum (negotiable depending on experience)
Working Hours : 6.00am to 16.30pm – 50 hours per week. However as this is a senior position within the company additional hours will be required as part of your role to carry out your duties, including the annual Xmas campaign.
Other Benefits:
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Profit Related Bonus Scheme (0-14% of annual salary)
- Holidays (25 days + bank holidays)
- Sick Pay (2 weeks full salary, followed by 2 weeks half salary on a rolling 12 month basis
- 3 month notice period
