Shift Manager - Production

Shift Managers - Drinks Manufacturing - Refresco UK, Bridgwater, Somerset (just off J23 of the M5)

Competitive salary, plus annual bonus, good pension scheme and private healthcare

Refresco Bridgwater is one of the largest and most progressive drink's manufacturing sites globally - 158,000 square metres, 4 factories, a large warehouse and transport facility under one roof, the latest, leading edge engineering technology producing 800 million litres per annum of soft drinks for our many own label and contract manufacturing customers from 28 production lines. In addition we have high value ongoing CAPEX investment projects for implementation at the site throughout 2023.

Do you want to be part of this?

We now seek a number of Shift Managers each to lead a large team, working a 24/7 four on four off shift pattern, reporting to a Production Manager. These roles are excellent career development opportunities to learn from industry experts, and develop your operations career.

About the Role

As Shift Manager you will work on a 24/7 shift pattern - working 4 on 4 off, 12 hour shifts. We are reintroducing this role in to our Operations at Bridgwater so that there is a higher level of managment visibility and presence across all shifts.

You will have a good idea of the main duties and tasks involved as you will have worked previously in manufacturing, but to be clear here are some of the main responsibilities of the role:

• Own all things in your factory when on shift, including ensuring factory OEE is optimised on your shift through regular reviews with Team Leaders, Engineers and planning departments.
• Build strong working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Production Manager to achieve the goals and objectives for the Factory.
• To have full accountability for the management of agreed budgets specific to your shift (labour and materials).
• Use factory KPI's to drive improvement activities and plans for the shift.
• Ensure that your shift is trained and competent against all latest SOP's.
• With your team - keep quality, health & safety and continuous improvement at the top of the daily agenda and measure these against the set KPI's.
• Ensure site is always audit ready.
• Develop your team from good to great.
• Manage, lead and contribute to a range of site projects when required.
  

About You

You will have experience working within manufacturing, and managing, leading and motivating a team within FMCG Manufacturing, ideally food or drinks. You will have an in-depth knowledge of production processes, and a proven record of meeting targets and improving performance, through continuous improvement methodology. You will also have a good knowledge of quality systems and a passion for ensuring quality standards are met and maintained, plus a very good record on health and safety with up to date practical knowledge applied in a manufacturing environment.

As a high profile manager you will be a role model to many others and ultimately, we want our people to align with, and resonate the Refresco Values as we believe these are what have made us, and will continue to make us, successful.

Find out more about our Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

Reward & Benefits

The salary for this role is dependent on experience. We offer an annual bonus incentive and a good company pension scheme, personal private healthcare, 3 x basic salary life assurance plus 20 days paid holiday. We have free on-site parking at the site.

We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling - https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/ - as well as Perkbox – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks and wellbeing tools for all employees - https://www.perkbox.com/uk

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks and we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and invested £1.25 billion in expanding our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 13 billion litres from 78 manufacturing plants in 13 countries and we’re only just getting started…

Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1600 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and deliver them where they need to be at the right time.

Find out more about Refresco Bridgwater by viewing this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BtFzV68xco

Refresco are an equal opportunities employer.