Production Zone Manager

Greencore Group plc; Spalding; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer is seeking a Production Zone Manager in Spalding to lead teams and manage processes ensuring products meet quality and safety standards. The candidate will need experience managing diverse teams in a manufacturing environment and relevant qualifications in food safety. This role offers competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for career development within the company.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Qualifications

• Experience managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Holds an advanced Food Hygiene accreditation.
• Has a HACCP level 2 qualification and IOSH level 2 qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead colleagues and manage processes to meet production standards.
• Monitor food safety and compliance with standards.
• Communicate progress against plans and highlight risks.
• Promote a Health, Safety, and Environment culture.

Skills

Experience of managing diverse teams

Advanced Food Hygiene accreditation

HACCP level 2 qualification

IOSH level 2 qualification

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Here at Spalding, we have a team of around 540 colleagues. We produce coleslaw, potato salad, salad bar bulk products (2kg), pasta salads and couscous/grains for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Morrisons, Co-op, Asda, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Nando’s and Pizza Hut. Our Spalding site has a restaurant with hot food available to all our colleagues.

Shift

(06:00 - 18:00)

Week 1

Sunday - Wednesday

Week 2

Sunday - Tuesday

What you’ll be doing

As Production Zone Manager you will lead colleagues and manage the consistent application of processes within a given department or zone to ensure products are prepared and manufactured to the agreed standards and production plans.

• Deliver department/zone productivity and efficiency targets to produce goods in line with the agreed production plan
• Continuously monitor raw materials/ingredients, all operational processes and the overall production environment to ensure that all activity comply with food safety manufacturing standards
• Monitor and review labour deployment to ensure that the availability and alignment fits with the production requirements of the department
• Effectively communicate with the operations team report progress against plan, highlighting any risks to the achievement of volumes and standards
• Monitors the effectiveness of machinery and equipment, through Optimum Equipment Efficiency (OEE), to ensure performance consistency and reliability
• Promote a Health, Safety and Environment culture within the department, complying to procedures, accident investigation, corrective actions and completing near miss reporting, promoting a safe working environment
• Review operational trends within department/zone. Identify and act on opportunities to that can make sustainable improvements in all areas including quality, performance and profit and the ultimately delivery of the operational plan
• Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all colleagues are clearly focused on their key objectives and are developed to maximise their potential
• Actively contribute to both customer and technical process development reviews to promote improvement to quality and consistency of production

What we’re looking for

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.

• Experience of managing diverse teams in a complex manufacturing environment
• Holds an advanced Food Hygiene accreditation
• Has a HACCP level 2 qualification and IOSH level 2 qualification

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

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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