Assistant Production Manager

Assistant Production Manager

Oldham, Greater Manchester

£40,869 per annum plus benefits

Monday-Friday (2PM-10PM)

The Role

A leading food manufacturing business is strengthening its operations team with the appointment of an Assistant Production Manager. The site continues to grow and evolve, creating a genuine opportunity for someone who wants to step into a broader leadership role and play a key part in driving performance, standards and continuous improvement.

You will support the Production Manager in leading the manufacturing area, ensuring output targets are achieved while maintaining the highest standards of health and safety, food safety, quality and GMP. The role requires a hands on leader who can manage people effectively, build engagement, drive accountability and deliver improvements through structured processes and strong communication.

This is an ideal move for an ambitious production professional who is ready to take on more responsibility and grow with a business that is investing heavily in capability, culture and future development.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage labour, materials, waste, health and safety, quality and GMP across the production area
• Ensure SOPs and quality standards are current, available and fully understood
• Ensure safety and quality checks are completed correctly and on time Set clear performance targets and communicate expectations across the team
• Ensure accurate and timely use of the Dynamics system Maintain food safety, quality, legality and integrity across production, storage and packaging
• Ensure individuals have the tools, knowledge and skills required to perform Build an engaged, accountable and high performing team
• Drive continuous improvement and support value added engagement activities
• Identify training needs and work with internal support functions to deliver development Role model strong performance and behaviour and address poor performance promptly
• Coach, mentor and train team members to support progression and succession Lead the team through change in a structured, respectful and effective way
• Promote a culture of honesty, equality, diversity and cross functional collaboration
• Lead daily production meetings, report results and drive actions Attend planning meetings and sign off production plans Support site wide initiatives, projects and NPD activity
• Attend ad hoc meetings and contribute to improvement and rectification plans

The Person

• Demonstrable management experience within food manufacturing or FMCG
• Strong leadership capability with a proven track record of managing teams
• Quality focused with excellent attention to detail
• Confident decision maker and problem solver
• Able to implement and manage change effectively Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, procedures and technical requirements
• IT literate with good numerical accuracy
• Engaging, structured and able to build strong cross functional relationships
• Ambitious, proactive and ready to step into a broader leadership role

Contact

For more information please contact Ryan Taylor at Winsearch on (phone number removed)

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