Production Team Manager
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About The Role
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Due to significant site growth and development over the last 12 months, we're excited to have an opening for a Production Team Manager at our state-of-the-art fruit processing and packing facility. This is more than just a job; it's a pathway to advancing your career in food manufacturing.
As a Production Team Manager, you will lead by example, driving results through effective team management and engagement. Your expertise in food manufacturing will help ensure we deliver top-quality products to our customers efficiently and on time.
Key Responsibilities:
- Performance Management: Monitor and drive KPIs, setting performance targets, reviewing progress, and creating action plans to enhance performance, reduce costs, and improve standards
- Task Allocation: Allocate tasks and conduct daily shift briefs
- Continuous Improvement: Identify problems and implement continuous improvement strategies across your production area
- Talent Development: Spot and develop talent within your team through coaching and guidance
- Colleague Welfare and Engagement: Ensure colleague welfare and improve attendance standards, drive engagement activities within your area
Role known as:
- Production Supervisor
- Manufacturing Team Leader
- Food Production Manager
- Operations Supervisor
- Food Manufacturing Supervisor
- Processing Plant Manager
- Production Line Manager
- Packaging Supervisor
- Shift Manager
- Food Processing Supervisor
About You
- Experience: Management or supervisory experience in a large-scale production operation within the food manufacturing industry.
- Leadership: Proven track record of people management, delivering strong results through a team.
- Problem Solving: Ability to challenge decisions and behaviours to ensure consistent service and demonstrate problem-solving skills.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills and assertiveness to make on-the-spot decisions.
- Work Ethic: A can-do attitude with a strong work ethic.
Why Join Us?
- Career Pathways: We provide clear pathways to help you progress your career within our expanding company.
- Growth Opportunity: Be part of a growing team at a dynamic site, with opportunities to make a real impact.
In return for your hard work we will offer you:
- Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)
- 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us
- Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
- Career progression and development opportunities
- Subsidised staff canteen
- Free parking
- Market leading pension and life assurance
- Healthcare/Wellbeing benefits including Aviva Digital GP
- Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
- Long Service Awards
- Optional Payroll charity donations
- Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave
About the site
About Us Description:
At Thrapston, we produce fruit and nuts for 494 stores and for morrisons.com, which means preparing everything from apples, nuts, seeds, tomatoes, pears, citrus, blueberries, grapes and kiwis - all to help #MakeGoodThingsHappen.
Our team of colleagues work over a 24/7 operation to get cases of fresh food ready for our stores and Morrisons.com every week.
About The Company
From a Bradford market stall to the UK's 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer.
We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK at just under 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.
Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and over 110,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our Morrisons.com service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.
We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.
Why not hear what our teams about got to say about life here at Morrisons: Click here!