Manufacturing Shift Manager

Warburtons Limited; Bolton; On-site; GBP 46,000 - GBP 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bakery company in Bolton is seeking a Manufacturing Shift Manager to drive excellence and efficiency in their production area. You will lead a dedicated team overseeing daily production activities across their established bread, crumpet, and new pancake lines. The ideal candidate has experience in manufacturing within an FMCG environment, strong leadership skills, and a passion for quality and safety. This position offers competitive compensation, including profit share and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Annual profit share

Extra week of annual leave

Award-winning pension scheme

Life assurance

Product discounts

Continued development investment

Health & wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing or production environment.
• Proven leadership in a high-paced FMCG setting.
• Ability to nurture future talent and achieve KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee daily production activities.
• Ensure quality and safety commitments are met.
• Drive excellence, innovation, and efficiency in production.

Skills

HSE compliance understanding

Lean and Six Sigma experience

Monitoring equipment compliance

Site-level planning

Coaching and developing teams

Job description

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Hours: Working 3 crew/4 crew days and nights - salary range is £46.5k to £48.5k - The salary offered will sit within a range and is determined by the skills and experience demonstrated.

Are you a Team Manager within a manufacturing or production environment at the top of your game and looking for a new challenge in an exciting FMCG setting? Look no further — our Bolton Bakery is searching for an Area Lead to join the team at a truly transformative time.

You could be leading operations in one of several key production areas — our established bread and crumpet lines, or our brand-new £10 million pancake plant, representing one of the most significant recent investments in the business. This new line brings huge opportunity for innovation, development and future growth.

• Understanding of HSE compliance activities within the workplace
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, and CI improvements
• Background in monitoring equipment compliance, with the ability to identify and resolve issues quickly
• Understanding of site-level planning activity
• Proven capability in coaching and developing teams to achieve KPIs and targets, nurturing future talent

The Recipe

As an Manufacturing Shift Manager at Warburtons, you will play a pivotal role in driving excellence, innovation and efficiency across your production area — whether that’s bread, crumpets or our new pancake operation. Leading a dedicated team, you’ll lead and oversee daily production activities, and champion our commitments to quality and safety.

About Us

Did you know there are two bakery sites in Bolton (Bolton & Variety), a distribution hub, a newly built Innovation Centre, Test Bakery, and our Head Office?

With major site and group initiatives underway, including our significant pancake line investment, there has never been a more exciting time to join us.

Extra Dough

At last and by no means least, you will want to know what your breads worth:

• Annual profit share (discretionary)
• Option to purchase up to an extra week of annual leave
• Award-winning pension scheme (7% company contribution)
• Life assurance
• Product perks, deals and discounts via Extra Dough platform
• Continued investment in your development
• Fully stocked kitchens with our products
• Health & wellbeing support including physiotherapy and 24/7 helpline

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.