Shift Manager

The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in food production management, with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety. As the Production Shift Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of production workers, ensuring efficient workflow, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity and meet production targets. Excellent communication and leadership skills are essential, as you will collaborate closely with other departments to coordinate production schedules and resolve any issues that may arise during the shift.

If you are a proactive problem-solver with a passion for driving results in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply.

The role of Production Shift Manager includes:

• Manage risk to create a safe working environment in the factory and manage its improvement.
• Accountable for ensuring GMP compliance throughout the factory.
• Ensure quality is delivered to a level that meets Customer standards and expectations across the factory, responsible for complaints management and resolution.
• Responsible for signing off new product standards from an operational perspective.
• Operates effectively in delivering the production schedule and is accountable for its fulfilment.
• Works with Supply Chain to ensure material availability.
• Manage and establish control of component usage, direct labour, utility consumption and manufacturing consumables to budget level.
• Measure any variances from standard levels, explain the variance and deliver plans of action to improve performance to the target level.
• Accountable for ensuring the continuity of Daily Rituals and Reviews, and coaching team on compliance.
• Measure and report on shift performance explaining variances to agreed standards.
• Manage teams’ performance, conduct and development.
• Review their progress against agreed objectives regularly.
• Ensure that skills matrices are accurate and current and develop a succession plan for the team.

BBF Limited are one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market. Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cakes, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes.

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do. With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited! We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business.

On top of making some delicious cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.

What benefits do we offer?

• Financial: 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit, Access to the company Benefits Hub, Access to ‘Company Shop’ – a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products.
• Health & Wellbeing: 25 days holiday per annum (plus statutory holidays), 24/7 Access to a GP, 24/7 Bereavement Support.
• Personal & Professional Development: Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team, Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses.
• A few other bits: Quarterly and Yearly BBF Star Awards – recognising those who have gone above and beyond!, Free on-site parking, Free refreshments.

All our recruitment is managed centrally via the internal recruitment team. We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren’t adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won’t be liable for a fee. Please don’t speculatively contact us about this vacancy or any other vacancy.