The Bart Ingredients company has been sourcing and supplying herbs & spices for over 60 years. What began as a husband-and-wife team selling spice racks locally has grown to an organisation with over 200 employees distributing products across the UK. Today the business is privately owned by the Fuchs Gruppe family - the world’s largest privately owned herbs & spices business.
The role
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Production Shift Supervisor to work in our facility in Newbury. The Shift Supervisor is responsible for leading and coordinating all production and end of day clean down activities to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality manufacturing operations. This includes managing people, processes, performance, and compliance to deliver production targets while maintaining a strong safety-first culture.
This is a hand on role that ensures that teams are motivated, fully supported, and working to company standards, while driving continuous improvement across quality, cost, delivery, safety, and morale.
Main responsibilities:
Leadership & People Management
- Lead, supervise and develop the shift team to achieve production targets.
- Manage staffing activities including breaks, job rotations, and job performance.
- Support training, coaching and onboarding of new employees and multiskilling operators.
- Foster a positive working environment built on communication, respect, and accountability.
Safety, Compliance & Quality
- Ensure all activities comply with Food safety, H&S regulations, policies and SSOW.
- Promote a proactive safety culture; report, investigate and escalate near misses and incidents.
- Ensure product food safety & quality standards and specifications are met.
- Maintain high levels of housekeeping.
Production Control & Process Management
- Coordinate daily production to achieve shift output, efficiency and scrap targets.
- Manage the clean down process and setting up for the following days production.
- Monitor performance KPIs such as downtime, and throughput.
- Ensure machinery and equipment are operated safely and correctly by all personnel.
- Liaise with maintenance to schedule repairs and address breakdowns promptly.
- Ensure accurate completion of production records, reports, and shift handovers.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, safety and waste reduction.
- Participate in CI initiatives
- Encourage operators to contribute ideas and drive engagement in improvement activities.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with maintenance, technical, warehouse and planning
- Communicate shift issues and performance updates to management.
- Support new product introductions, trials and process changes as required.
Person specification/Qualifications/Capabilities:
Essential:
- Proven experience in manufacturing supervision or team leadership.
- Strong understanding of production processes, KPIs and workflow optimisation.
- Knowledge of health & safety, quality standards and compliance.
- Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to make fast, sound decisions in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable:
- Experience within food manufacturing.
- Experience with OEE or other production performance systems.
- Calm under pressure with strong leadership presence.
- Confident communicator who can influence at all levels.
- Proactive, solutions focused and committed to continuous improvement.
Hours of work:
The hours for this role are 38.75 hours per week Monday – Friday between 10am to 6pm with flexibility to cover Production Supervisor from 7am. The salary for this role is £33,000.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this position, please submit your CV to [email protected]. The closing date for applications is 12th June.
What we offer:
Bart believe our people are our most important asset and offer the following benefits in addition to your salary:
· Pension scheme:
o Salary sacrifice scheme with company contribution of 4%
· Extra leave:
o Holiday purchase scheme – up to an additional 5 days each year
o Enhanced bereavement and pregnancy loss leave
o Enhanced maternity and paternity leave after 12 months service
· Life assurance:
o 2 x annual salary after 3 months service
· Wellbeing:
o Access to GP24 service which is a remote GP & second opinion medical service
o Access to onsite Mental Health First Aiders
o Grocery Aid access - They offer emotional, financial, practical advice and support on a wide range of topics for all grocery colleagues and their immediate families
· Discounts:
o Money off in stores, holidays and days out discount platform
o Cycle to work scheme
· Others:
o Long Service Awards
o Social events
Diversity & Inclusion
At Bart Ingredients we are committed to promoting equal opportunities and fostering a rich diversity within our workplace where all individuals are valued, treated with fairness, dignity and respect.
We recruit on a fair and equal basis, welcoming applications from candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender identity or reassignment, disability, pregnancy & maternity status, sexual orientation, religion or belief or marriage/civil partnership status.
In line with the Ban the Box initiative, we do not ask you about any unspent criminal convictions during the recruitment process.
Bart Ingredients are a proud Disability Confident Employer, and we guarantee an interview for candidates who declare a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the role.
We recognise that people are different and can work in different ways. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process or for applying in a different format, please contact our HR team and they will be happy to help. [email protected] - 0117 9773474
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to £33,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
