Manufacturing Site Leader in Wakefield

Location: Tuscany Park, Wakefield

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive

We are looking for a Site Leader who will drive excellence, empower teams, and shape our future at our site based at Tuscany Park here in Wakefield. This is a fantastic opportunity to take our site to the next level and inspire a world‑class manufacturing culture.

The Recipe

• To lead and engage the Manufacturing teams at the site to deliver daily customer service targets with effective resource planning, whilst managing HSE, Quality, Food Safety and cost.
• To drive a Manufacturing Excellence continuous improvement culture to deliver sustained performance improvements.
• The role has full responsibility for the site facilities and services across both Manufacturing and Distribution functions.

The Role

Health, Safety and Environment

• Lead and engage the manufacturing team to deliver the annual HSE plan and drive the HSE culture change through team engagement, involvement and responsibility for HSE activities.
• Ensure control measures are incorporated into Standard Operating Procedures and adequately trained and verified.
• Responsible for maintenance and improvements of site infrastructure to meet legal compliance and fit for purpose.

Food Safety

• Lead and engage the manufacturing team to ensure that all internal and external food & feed safety standards and requirements are met.
• Provide the resources to identify and deliver effective hygiene plans to meet Warburtons standards and legislative requirements with appropriate validation and verification plans in place for new products.
• Ensure control measures are incorporated into Standard Operating Procedures and adequately trained and verified.

Quality Performance Delivery

• Lead and engage the site manufacturing team to deliver quality and freshness performance targets.
• Delivery of product improvement through and the Evidence led quality strategy implementation in collaboration with Centre UBQ team.
• Ensure systems are in place to effectively review and investigate consumer quality complaints and action plans for improvement.
• Alongside the Centre Technical & Innovation teams provide resources to plan and deliver sku changes and product innovation from trials through to launch.

Fuel Our Future

• Provides leadership and direction to the manufacturing Team and is accountable for site performance.
• In close collaboration with other functions across the business, leads the site manufacturing team in idea generation and delivery of national and local strategies to deliver the Fuel our Future strategy.
• Identify and deliver the site manufacturing revenue and capital budgets and manage revenue expenditure to ensure budget targets are achieved.

Customer Service

• Lead the manufacturing team to ensure customer service targets are delivered through a focus on manufacturing reliability, plant resilience, and performance to plan.
• Working in collaboration with site Distribution colleagues to eliminate issues and continually improve processes.

People

• Lead, motivate, develop and coach the site manufacturing team to ensure they achieve all agreed KPI’s, personal targets and development plans as identified in their role profiles and via performance review meetings.
• Manage underperformance promptly through regular reviews and appropriate actions plans.
• Lead the site manufacturing team talent process at all levels to ensure that talent is identified, nurtured and succession plans are in place.
• Select and recruit appropriate staff.

Manufacturing Excellence

• Lead and engage the site manufacturing team to deliver the MFF strategy and drive a continuous improvement culture to improve plant performance.
• Provide the resources to identify CI opportunities and promote the lean manufacturing philosophies, tools & techniques working with the Centre Manufacturing Excellence team.
• Work collaboratively with other manufacturing teams to identify and share best practice across manufacturing systems and processes, demonstrate the drive to deliver projects OTIF.
• Identify and manage the execution of site-based projects.

KPI Delivery

• Performance - ensure that all employees are aware of the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) that they are accountable and responsible for within each of the departments within Operations.

Essential Ingredients

• Knowledge and experience of management in an FMCG environment – in particular, knowledge and experience of Lean manufacturing tools & techniques.
• Knowledge of TPM philosophies desirable.
• Experience or knowledge of working within an ‘Enterprise Leadership’ culture or matrix organisation desirable.
• Knowledge and experience of bread or OWB making processes, plant & technology desirable.
• Knowledge of legislation relating to a manufacturing/distribution environment (including employment law).
• H&S/Food Safety/food hygiene systems & legislation knowledge e.g. COSHH, IOSH.
• Quality systems & knowledge of HACCP – able to ensure the factory’s output meets required quality standards.
• IT and PC knowledge – able to use widespread functions within relevant software (inc Office and SAP).
• Business & market knowledge – uses knowledge of customers/market to improve processes & products.
• Knowledge of auditing processes.
• Knowledge of procedures for dealing with emergencies.
• Communicating skills – articulate/develops effective, long-term relationships with key people.
• Coaching and mentoring skills – takes responsibility for the training and coaching of others.
• Influencing & negotiating skills – maintains attention when speaking to groups of people/negotiates successful deals and purchases/develops persuasive arguments/demonstrates flexibility in influencing style.
• Analysing and problem-solving skills – anticipates problems before they occur and takes steps to deal with them/correctly & swiftly identifies the underlying problem & finds appropriate solutions.
• Time & project management skills – uses project management techniques to create effective plans with milestones/identifies areas of risk & plan contingency/monitors and communicates work & project progress.
• Decision making skills – makes timely decisions/takes account of the wider risks & implications.
• Commercial acumen– uses an understanding of the cost base to improve profitability.
• Financial acumen - experience of creating full site budgets.
• Strategic thinking skills – develops strategy and long-term plans and objectives for the factory/re-designs processes & ways of working to meet long-term objectives.
• Management & leadership skills – develops an exciting vision which inspires others to perform/uses a range of management styles/deals effectively with performance issues/creates a sense of trust in the team.
• Innovating skills – identifies improvements to systems and processes and develops a culture within the factory where creativity and innovation are valued and rewarded.

Extra Dough

• Car allowance
• A personal bonus opportunity and a slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• 5 weeks holiday and bank holidays, plus the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week's annual leave.
• Award winning pension scheme with company contributions up to 7%
• Private medical insurance, health screening and life assurance
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service.