Weekend Shift Manager

36 hours per week, 12 hour shifts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (6am to 6pm). The Weekend Shift Manager will manage all the manufacturing operations, from goods in through to dispatch, with emphasis on the shift performance of the Meals production lines. Safely delivering plan completion; controlling costs with Right First-Time quality and ensuring that the production targets are achieved. We have a focus on continuous improvement and quality and this role is key to our success in these areas. This role will be based in the Meals Department but also oversee all areas of the factory at the weekend. You will be the most senior person on site at weekends, managing 20+ employees, responding to any incidents, making decisions and communicating across the weekend operation. You will have experience of managing manufacturing units and be logical, self-assured and influence at all levels.

As we are expanding our manufacturing operation in Trowbridge this is a great time to join us and reach your full potential. apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings. Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness. Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

• Manufacturing
  • Oversee and run the weekend shift, ensuring shift performance to KPIs and compliance standards.
  • Ensure control of quality, quantity and costs.
  • Pro-actively support our Continuous Improvement work (CI).
• People
  • Lead, motivate and develop a team of proactive people.
  • Ensure a positive culture through shop-floor presence and staff engagement.
  • All aspects of people management, including one-on-one’s, reviews of performance, return to work interviews, disciplinary investigations and absence control.
  • Identify and facilitate team members to develop and grow.
• Communication and Teamwork
  • Communicate and collaborate with colleagues across the business.
  • Facilitate communication from the business to the front-line employees.
  • Actively encourage feedback from team with open and honest discussions on production targets.
  • Keep team members regularly informed of the team’s performance/production target.
• Quality and Compliance
  • Ensure site compliance with business H&S policies.
  • Conduct accident investigations.
  • Ensure traceability of all materials.
  • Engage with QFSA during Hygiene + Housekeeping audits, agree timescales for corrective actions and deliver on time.
  • Pro-actively work with QFSA to ensure adoption of any changes to the BRCGS std that affect your area, to maintain AA status.
• Housekeeping and Hygiene
  • Ensure all operators follow correct personal hygiene procedures (e.g. changing processes, hand washing procedures).
  • Take an active role in implementing 5 S ethos.
  • Actively promote continuous improvement in hygiene standards particularly on product change overs to avoid allergen and component cross contamination.

Experience of Manufacturing Supervisory role. FMCG Manufacturing experience would be a benefit. Team management experience. Demonstrates the following competencies:

• Leading and Supervising: Provides staff with development opportunities and coaching, motivates and empowers others, sets appropriate standards of behaviour.
• Planning and organising: Identifies and organises resources needed to accomplish tasks, monitors performance against deadlines and milestones.
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations: Sets high standards for quality and quantity, focuses on customer needs and satisfaction and liaison with customers (internal and external).
• Creating and innovating: Seeks opportunities for organisational improvement, brings improvements to life.
• Adhering to principles and values: Upholds ethics and values, encourages organisational and individual responsibility towards the community and the environment.

Competitive salary - accredited Living Wage employer. 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays (pro rata). Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year. Discretionary annual bonus scheme. Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%. Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary. Subsidised canteen. Free parking. Free turkey or voucher at Christmas. apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts.

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of. We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers. We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people. We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040. Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer. Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future. We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds. Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we’re on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.