The Opportunity
We’re partnering with an exciting and rapidly growing food manufacturing business to appoint a Production Manager to lead its kitchen operations during an exciting period of growth.
Having established a loyal customer base and ambitious expansion plans, the business is investing heavily in its production capability, people, and processes as it prepares for the next stage of its journey, including expansion into new markets.
Reporting directly to the senior leadership team, you’ll take ownership of the day-to-day production operation, driving efficiency, developing the team, and helping build a scalable manufacturing environment capable of supporting continued growth.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced operational leader who enjoys improving processes, motivating teams and delivering high-quality production in a fast-paced environment.
The Role
You’ll be responsible for ensuring the production operation runs safely, efficiently and consistently while continually improving performance across the kitchen.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading, motivating and developing the production and kitchen teams.
- Managing daily production operations to ensure output, quality and customer expectations are consistently achieved.
- Planning production schedules, labour allocation and resource requirements.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency, productivity and scalability.
- Monitoring production KPIs, identifying improvement opportunities and implementing solutions.
- Maintaining high standards of food safety, hygiene and quality across the operation.
- Working alongside external food safety and compliance consultants to ensure the business remains audit-ready and continues to meet all required standards.
- Managing equipment, facilities and health & safety standards across the production environment.
- Collaborating with senior leadership, product development and commercial teams to support growth and new product launches.
- Building robust operational processes capable of supporting increased production volumes.
About You
We’re looking for an experienced Production or Operations Manager from a food manufacturing, food production or large-scale commercial kitchen environment.
You’ll bring:
- Proven experience leading production or kitchen operations within a fast-paced food environment.
- A strong track record of managing, coaching and developing high-performing teams.
- Excellent production planning and organisational skills.
- Experience driving operational improvements and increasing efficiency.
- A hands-on leadership style with the ability to solve problems and make decisions under pressure.
- Good understanding of food safety, hygiene and quality standards within food production.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple functions.
Previous exposure to HACCP, GMP, SALSA or BRC environments would be beneficial, but deep technical expertise is not essential, as the business works closely with specialist external consultants who provide ongoing support for compliance and accreditation activities.
Why Apply?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing business where you’ll have genuine influence over how the production operation evolves.
You’ll have the autonomy to improve processes, develop people, implement operational best practice and play a key role in preparing the business for its next phase of growth.
If you enjoy building teams, improving production performance and making a visible impact within a growing business, we’d love to hear from you.
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