Production Area Manager

Join the Samworth Brothers Family!

Working for The Cornwall Bakery, part of the Samworth Brothers Group, a 4th generation family business, we offer competitive benefits to all our colleagues including:

• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Private Health Scheme
• Employee Discount Scheme
• Annual Pay Review and Profit related pay
• Training and Progression opportunities

The Opportunity

We have the opportunity for you to join our team as a Production Area Manager working on the Night Shift Monday to Thursday 18:00 – 06:00, responsible for the department when on shift and will be responsible for making decisions concerning management of personnel, production and its quality, cost control, safety and service in the absence of direct line management being present. Some of what you can expect to be doing includes:

• Line Management of the leaders and Operators in area of responsibility.
• Responsible for all ‘People’ processes within area of responsibility and training and developing teams.
• Responsible for recruitment, colleague movements and succession planning.
• Managing effective Performance management within area of responsibility
• Ensuring communication channels within area of responsibility are robust and delivers the right messages in a timely manner to all colleague as required.
• Creating a positive culture to foster good morale and good working conditions for colleague.
• Personally demonstrates and encourages inter-departmental working to achieve business objectives.
• Ensuring all colleagues are working to the correct standards, processes and specifications etc. and are working towards a ‘right first time’ ethos.

The Right Person

We are one big team and we look for people to join our business who want to work with others but take responsibility for doing their best every day to help to make the business a success.

• Previous experience of manufacturing operations (essential)
• Intermediate Food Hygiene
• Line management experience to include performance management and development
• Customer contact and ‘visitor’ liaison capability
• Computer literate and competent in the use of Microsoft applications

The Company

The Cornwall Bakery is the home of the famous Ginsters Cornish Pasty as well as a range of other high quality savoury pastry products. We are a large employer in the South West as well as being part of a national company that is still a family owned business, Samworth Brothers. We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative