Job Title: Assistant Production Manager 

Location: Birmingham

Salary: c£38,000

A growing food manufacturer who supplies a large portfolio of customers, are now looking to recruit an ambitious Assistant Production Manager to join their management team.

The Candidate: 

• You need to have experience as a Manufacturing or Production Manager from a Food Manufacturing or FMCG environment, managing teams in a complex factory.
• You’ll have a strong track record of tangible achievements and be driven to take ownership of the role and contribute to the success of the business.
• Forward thinking attitude, enthusiastic and driven. You’ll have a passion for what you do and always deliver to the very highest standards. 

The Role: 

• Reporting into the Operations Director, you will be responsible for optimising resources and managing performance, safety, quality, and costs.
• You will be delivering operational plans and setting day to day objectives including delivery of the site business plan.
• As a key member of the Site Management team, you will play a pivotal role in the daily operations, leading inspiring a team to achieve targets whilst maintaining highest standards of quality and food safety.
• As Assistant Production Manager you will be the driving force behind the shift, driving performance.
• This is an opportunity to play a great role with an innovative business who are going from strength to strength.

Other Responsibilities include:

• Assisting the team to achieve their own objectives including training through coaching, hands on support and organisation of resources.
• Ensuring a cost efficient and stable production process with emphasis on KPI’s.
• Contributing to the development of current processes and ways of working

To apply for this opportunity with this growing business, please send a copy of your CV to Carole quoting reference CH/442

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