Production Manager in Liverpool

This is a pivotal leadership role where you will nurture a safe, supportive, and high‑performing production environment while delivering strong operational results. Through thoughtful leadership and collaboration, you will balance day‑to‑day performance with long‑term team development and continuous improvement.

Location: Liverpool

Benefits: Company pension, Company EAP program, 25 days holidays plus bank holidays, Monthly pay, PPE provided

Hours: 40 hours per week Monday to Friday 8am-5pm. The role requires flexibility across operational hours from 6am to midnight, with occasional weekend support as business demands.

The role:

• People & Culture: Lead a positive, high‑performance culture grounded in continuous improvement, open communication, and shared accountability. Inspire, coach, and develop Operational Leaders, ensuring teams feel supported, motivated, and clear on expectations. Shape a sustainable workforce strategy by identifying capability gaps and delivering thoughtful recruitment, succession, and development plans. Provide oversight of employee relations, payroll compliance, and disciplinary processes, ensuring fairness, consistency, and integrity. Build trusted partnerships with recruitment agencies to secure skilled and reliable talent.
• Operations & Performance: Hold overall accountability for site performance across safety, quality, service, cost, and productivity. Lead integrated production planning aligned to demand, oil intake, packaging, and stock availability. Champion continuous improvement in throughput, waste reduction, changeovers, and consistency. Foster strong cross‑functional collaboration, ensuring clear communication and alignment across all departments. Ensure high standards of GMP, Food Safety, PPE, and “Clean As You Go” are embedded and consistently upheld.
• You will also: Champion a strong Health, Safety, and Food Safety culture, working towards zero recordable injuries through visible leadership, compliance, and accountability. Ensure full adherence to internal policies and legal requirements, lead effective investigation and close‑out of safety, environmental, and quality incidents, and partner closely with the Technical team to uphold the highest standards of hygiene, quality, and food safety. Through continuous improvement of equipment, processes, and ways of working, ensure quality issues and product rework are resolved promptly, protecting both customers and brand integrity.

About you:

• Experience with D365
• Proven experience within food manufacturing and supply chain operations, with exposure to warehouse and transport environments.
• Strong background in production management, with confidence managing absence, return‑to‑work processes, and employee relations matters.
• A people‑centred leader with the ability to positively influence challenging cultures and support long‑term team development.
• Demonstrated success in identifying opportunities for change and thoughtfully shaping operational improvement.
• Comfortable working autonomously, with the energy and curiosity to drive meaningful change initiatives.
• Experience leading large teams (100+), creating trust, clarity, and engagement at scale.
• A track record of setting, delivering, and embedding KPIs and service commitments that enhance the customer experience.
• Sound knowledge of BRC and food safety compliance audits.
• Clear, confident communicator with strong written and verbal skills.
• Digitally confident, with experience using inventory systems, MRP, and performance measurement tools.
• Commercially aware, results‑focused, and motivated by delivering sustainable success.

The KTC Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.