Factory Manager

Factory Manager

Up to £65,000

South Wales

Days with an early finish Friday

Yolk Recruitment is pleased to be working a leading Food Manufacturer in their search for a Factory Manager to manage 2 growing facilities in South Wales where you will be responsible for the day to day running of the sites.

You will ensure the company strategy is followed, and guide and train the production staff.

In return you will receive a generous salary, attend company events, have an early finish on a Friday and even enjoy free snacks and tea and coffee throughout your working day!

This is what you'll be doing as Factory Manager:

• Oversee two fast-growing nutritional food manufacturing facilities, managing a growing team consisting of the production manager and shift managers.
• Meeting production targets and liaising with Senior Management regarding planning.
• Responsible for managing daily functions, streamlining processes, reducing waste, and increasing productivity.
• People management and motivation to create a flexible, effective and multi skilled workforce across all disciplines
• Provide training and resources to ensure production teams understand safety protocols
• A good people manager with the drive and strength of character to build and sustain a cohesive team, leading by example and encouraging success.
• Able to identify, prioritise and delegate actions maximising available resources ensuring effective management of workload
• Develop and sustain a culture of mutual respect, teamwork, and professionalism, demonstrating active support in the Company's values, behaviours, policies, and procedures.
• Prepare production reports for senior management/directors

The experience you'll bring to the team as Factory Manager:

• Experience of leading a team to achieve positive results.
• Good knowledge of technical Health & Safety requirements and demonstrated leadership of safety initiatives. Experience of promoting a 'safety first' culture.
• Excellent leadership and coaching skills
• Demonstrable application of problem-solving tools and techniques to deliver efficiency improvement
• Able to implement and drive performance improvement using lean tools, KPIs and visual management
• Confident decision maker who understands the commercial implications of decisions.
• Effective team player.
• Proven track record of delivering performance improvements.
• Previous managerial experience, with knowledge and experience of HR processes.
• Food safety qualification level 3 and above.
• HACCP level 3.
• Knowledge and experience of external audits.
• People management qualification to level 5 or higher e.g. ILM or NVQ.
• Continuous Improvement qualification / experience in Lean / Toyota

Are you up to the challenge?

If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to be successful in this role apply now

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