Production Manager

Role Overview & Responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Simpsons Malt Limited for a Production Manager.

The role will be primarily working dayshift, 40 hours per week. The role holder will be required to develop full knowledge of the site and its processes and will move to cover specific areas over time.

This is a challenging production site, with a wide range of plant and equipment that includes driers, dressers, elevators & conveyors as well as Programmable Logic Controlled germinating vessels and kilns. In line with continued investment and our increasing focus on continuous improvement activity, we are also developing our site management team.

This role will join a team of Production Managers who work on a Monday to Friday basis, but have total responsibility 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for a part of the production process and site. You will ensure a quality product, motivate and maintain the health and safety of the operators in your area and actively seek to improve processes, equipment and performance against a range of metrics in your area.

While initially dayshift based, there will be a requirement to undertake early and late shifts as part of a rota, take out of hours calls and there is a weekend rota (1 weekend in 6, on site), flexible with the rest of the team to ensure site staff can gain advice and quality judgements be made.

Typical but flexible working hours:-

6.00am-3.00pm + on call Friday then weekend work

2.00pm-10.00pm (on call Monday – Thursday)

4 weeks at 8.00am to 5.00pm

The site is safety and quality driven and so the way work is done is just as important as producing the malt delivery to satisfy customer demands. This role will be very much about showing that you are willing to take ownership and drive forward, taking your team with you to achieve improved performance. Any knowledge around lean manufacturing tools would also be useful combined with relevant experience.

Communication skills will be important for the successful candidate along with a continuous improvement mentality. You should be described by colleagues as a problem solver, dedicated, a good team member, focused and helpful.

Full training will be given as required for this role.

Key Tasks:

• Actively develop the culture of a highly engaged workforce, promoting a collaborative teamworking philosophy with the Simpsons Malt vision and the values understood and lived by all the team.
• Manage the process of developing and operating the site to ensure it functions safely, efficiently and effectively to enable achievement of its objectives and responsibilities.
• Promote best practice in health, safety, environment, food safety, hygiene, housekeeping, Legality and product quality.
• Build a site team, via recruitment, training and development to be able to both capably deliver site objectives and have the potential to fill more senior roles as they arise, identification of potential talent and nurture accordingly.

Key Attributes:

• A positive, ‘can do’ attitude, leading the team by example and working with other areas across the business promoting the ‘one team’ approach and to deliver business objectives.
• Effective communication skills.
• Active leadership of continuous improvement activities to improve area performance.
• Problem solving skills.
• Team player.

Benefits:

At Simpsons Malt, we believe in rewarding our people for a job well done. As an employee you will have access to the following benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• Company Pension Plan.
• Death in Service benefits.
• 31 days holiday per annum including bank holidays, increasing with length of service.
• Employee Cashback Plan for medical and dental services.
• Learning and Development Opportunities.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Berwick-Upon-Tweed: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 17/03/2023