Job Description
Shift Manager, Hampshire.
Salary: £45,000 | Location: North Hampshire | Pattern: Friday to Monday
Let me be straight with you. Food manufacturing doesn’t wait. It doesn’t care that it’s Sunday, that the line’s down, or that someone’s phoned in sick. If you’ve run a shift in food manufacturing, you already know this.
The job
You’ll own a production area during the weekend shift. Not “support it.” Not “have visibility of it.” Own it. Safety, quality, performance and people are all yours, and at the end of the shift you’ll know exactly how it went, because the numbers will tell you.
This role is a great opportunity for a production supervisor to step into a new challenge.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading a production team to hit shift KPIs safely and efficiently
- Keeping Health & Safety, hygiene and compliance standards where they should be, every shift, not just audit week
- Supporting the Production Manager on day-to-day responsibilities
- Chasing yield and cutting waste, because in food manufacturing both are money
- Using performance data to spot problems and fix them, rather than admiring them on a spreadsheet
- Escalating maintenance issues early, before a small fault turns into a long stoppage
- Coaching and developing your team so they get better, and so you’re not the only one who can solve things
- Making sure traceability and product compliance are spot on. This one isn’t optional.
The bits we won’t dress up
- It’s fast-paced. That means decisions get made quickly, often with incomplete information.
- You’ll be hands-on. If you want to manage from a laptop, wrong job for you.
- Standards aren’t a suggestion. You’ll be accountable for them, and so will the business.
You’ll fit if you have
- Production management experience in food manufacturing, fresh produce or another fast-moving environment
- A proper understanding of food safety, hygiene, and compliance
- Real experience leading teams, not just overseeing them
- Problem-solving skills and the confidence to make a call and stand by it
- Communication skills that work on the shop floor as well as in the meeting room
- An eye for detail and a habit of owning the result
What you get
Aside from a role with real accountability and room to grow in a leading food manufacturing business, you also get:
- Competitive salary: £45,000
- Bonus: Up to 10%
- Pension: above industry standard
- Lifestyle: gym discounts and holiday/travel savings
Interested?
Apply with your CV on the below link. If you’d rather tell us in a few lines what you’ve run and what you’re proud of, that works too. A real person will read it.
Alternatively, if you would like to know more regarding the role and business. Give Wayne at The Sterling Choice a call.