Manufacturing Shift Manager (FTC) – Boston

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better.

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here in Boston we employ around 400 colleagues and produce ready to eat salads, prepared vegetables and snacks for many of the major retailers such as Coop, Boots, Greggs, Costco, Spar and BOL.

Lead, co-ordinate and prioritise activity across a shift to deliver productivity and efficiency targets in line with the agreed production plan

Ensure the adherence of all food manufacturing safety and quality standards by all teams on shift safeguarding the delivery of great tasting, high quality food products

Review operational trends across the shift to identify and act upon opportunities that make sustainable improvements in quality, performance and profit

Lead the ongoing development of the SHE culture, promoting adherence to manufacturing guidelines, accident investigation and audit recommendations to support and improve health and safety in the working environment

Ensure that strong communication and information flows are maintained within the operations team to ensure that immediate issues are resolved and ongoing items and trends are shared with the broader operations community

Forecast and control labour requirements, direct and indirect, to meet production programme requirements and customer expectations within budget

Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all colleagues are clearly focused on their key objectives and developed to maximise their potential

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

A good standard of education is critical; excellent literacy and numerical skills, able to understand, communicate and report clearly in English

Demonstrable analytical skills – ability to pull actionable insight from data

Prior experience of leading a team and resource planning in a people intensive, manufacturing/FMCG environment

Advanced Food Hygiene Accreditation

HACCP Level 3 Qualification

Experience of managing large numbers of people in a complex manufacturing environment

Level Three Health and Safety – IOSH

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.