Factory Manager - Night Shift - Clitheroe
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Night Shift Factory Manager – Chilled Food Manufacturing
Location: ClitheroeShift: Night Shift - Monday to Friday 10pm - 6am
Are you a confident, experienced leader with a passion for driving operational excellence? Do you thrive in the fast-paced, high-stakes environment of chilled food production? We’re looking for an experienced Night Shift Factory Manager to take charge of
our Clitheroe site’s newly installed night shift operations, leading a dedicated team of supervisors, team leaders, skilledoperatives, and agency workers to achieve production targets and ensure our factory runs efficiently.
THE ROLE:
As Night Shift Factory Manager, you will lead all night shift production activities, ensuring our team delivers on the scheduledproduction plan while maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety. You’ll be at the forefront of implementing new
systems and driving operational excellence across your shift. This is a hands-on role, requiring someone who can lead by example, coach and develop teams, and manage a mixed skilled team to manufacturing success.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
- Lead and Manage Production: Ensure the night shift delivers on production targets in line with the scheduled plan, maintaining
- Team Development: Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to your team, helping supervisors and team leaders reach their
- Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve equipment performance, eliminate waste, and enhance overall productivity
- Operational Excellence: Champion an operational excellence culture, ensuring key KPIs such as throughput, waste reduction, and
- Audit-Ready Compliance: Ensure the factory maintains "audit-ready" status by conducting regular checks on BRC/audit operational
- Health, Safety & Environment: Lead on-site Health & Safety efforts, ensuring all procedures are followed, risks are mitigated,
- Food Safety & Quality: Take full accountability for food safety and quality within your shift, ensuring compliance with HACCP,
- Communication: Foster clear communication streams across all departments and ensure the night shift team is kept up-to-date on
business priorities, operational updates, and key performance metrics.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- Experience in Chilled Food Manufacturing: A proven track record of leading large operational teams within a chilled or short
- Operational Excellence Expertise: Experience in driving continuous improvement and operational excellence, with a focus on
- Retail Customer Management: Experience managing retail customer visits and building effective relationships.
- BRC Knowledge: Strong understanding of BRC regulations and food safety legislation, ensuring compliance is maintained across
- Leadership Skills: A skilled leader who can motivate and develop teams, handle disciplinary procedures, and manage performance
- Health & Safety: Strong knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, with the ability to conduct risk assessments and ensure
- IT Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office and experience working with ERP systems to analyse and present operational KPIs.
WHY JOIN US?
This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven, energetic leader to take ownership of the night shift operations at a leadingchilled food manufacturing site. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our production strategy, developing teams, and driving
efficiency improvements, all while maintaining the highest standards of food safety and quality.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
You will be working with a close knit management team, who are supportive, innovative and talented, giving ample opportunity for
your own career progression as you would expect working for a group of our size, we also offer :
Benefits to Include:
- 33 Days annual leave
- 2 Employee Volunteering Days per year
- Online and High-street retailer discount scheme
- Employee well-being and community support groups
- Informal and Formal training opportunities with personalised online LMS platform
- Charity Initiatives and Team events
- 24/7 Access to Grocery Aid (Free Financial, Emotional and Practical Support)
- Physical Wellbeing Benefits – Free on demand exercise hub and various gym discounts.
- Online Wellbeing benefits
- Free Financial wellbeing – mortgage calculators, budget tools, financial aid tools
- Holiday Discounts via Online Retail Discount
- Free Products and frequent Fun Site Initiatives
valued. A place where they can bring their whole selves to work to achieve exceptional results and thrive.
We continue to attract diverse talent into our teams, because we know greater diversity leads to exceptional results and providesa better working life. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do.
Recruitment Agencies We have an active and trusted Preferred Supplier List to assist us if required. We do not acknowledge any
speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies.
If you are ambitious, have a passion for leading people, driving operational improvements, and making a real impact in the chilledfood industry, we’d love to hear from you!
Apply Now to become a key part of our team and lead our new night shift to success!
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