Production Manager

Production Manager

£65-75k

Based North West

Novus are proud to work with an FMCG client in the North West with outstanding heritage who are proud of their strong brand in the market. Offering an opportunity to work with an experienced leadership team for personal development and growth, this could be ideal for someone wanting to move out of chilled food manufacturing to experience another product category or an ambitious shift manager ready for their next step. In the early stages of change, there is a lot to offer someone here to be part of a change journey. As a key member of team, making your mark on this site can offer long term progression within the group.

A role for a strong operations professional - able to develop an operational team and work through a significant change programme. The key areas of focus are GMP, understanding and questioning production capability and capacity and building strong manufacturing plans.

The Business

• A successful, prominent FMCG manufacturer with strong branded products supplying the UK market, as part of an international group.
• A business who has shown their adaptability and grown market share through innovation and a constant focus on quality.
• A long serving and established operational team with extensive knowledge of the product range.
• Production and quality centric business.
• Product range that has constant demand and strong, consistent sales.
• A business that is now developing a process improvement plan and has investment to help facilitate the operational initiatives.

The responsibilities of this role are:

• Leadership of the operational areas in the business - production, stock control and despatch.
• Open and clear communication and measurement of the KPIs in all areas.
• Close management of the budget.
• Full responsibility for SHE, driving a positive culture across operations.
• To identify opportunities and drive improvements, encouraging others to develop a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ensure all areas work to the current high quality and technical standards.
• Reporting to and supporting the Factory General Manager.

Novus are keen to source candidates with the following backgrounds for this role:

• Manufacturing background in Food or Drink.
• A detailed working knowledge of plant and process capabilities.
• Able to manage process improvement journey.
• Results focused, making effective decisions, interpreting data combined with key factory data.
• Into the detail, aware of the status of all areas at all times.
• A confident operator with open, clear and concise communication style.
• A team focused manager who encourages and motivates.
• Strong communicator able to liaise with all managers.

If you're reading this far we've caught your eye with this role. The next step is to get in touch with the Novus team and let's take it from there. Novus Recruitment specialises in the food, FMCG and drinks industry and production and operations roles are one of our key disciplines. If this role isn't a fit for you there will be others.

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