Location: Halifax, West Yorkshire
Salary: £60,995 per annum
Shift Description: 06:00 – 18:00 & 18:00 – 06:00. 12 hours shifts, days and nights across a 6-week rota schedule. Average weekly hours – 42.
Some of our fantastic benefits
Nestlé Halifax Factory in West Yorkshire is the home of the iconic confectionery brand Quality Street, alongside several other well-known brands such as After Eight. These products are crafted using advanced process plant technology and highly automated filling and packing lines, ensuring consistent quality at scale.
As a Lead Operator you will lead your production area on shift, coordinating people, processes and materials to deliver performance, quality and continuous improvement.
Your Impact
You will play a key role in driving line performance and supporting a high-performing production environment. Your leadership will ensure safe, efficient and high-quality output while creating a culture of continuous improvement.
• Production Performance: You drive line efficiency, maximise output and ensure achievement of production plans and key performance indicators.
• Continuous Improvement: You identify opportunities, analyse data and lead structured problem-solving to improve processes and reduce waste.
• Quality & Compliance You ensure products meet quality, food safety and hygiene standards every time.
• People & Team Coordination You support, guide and coordinate teams on shift, building capability and promoting accountability.
• Safety & Standards: You maintain a strong focus on health and safety, ensuring safe working practices and compliance at all times.
Your Ingredients for Success
You will bring experience from a fast-paced manufacturing or production environment, along with analytical and leadership capability. You will be confident in using data to improve performance and comfortable working with modern systems and tools.
• Manufacturing Experience: Proven experience in food manufacturing or a similar production environment.
• Continuous Improvement Skills: Experience delivering improvement initiatives using structured problem-solving approaches.
• Technical & Systems Knowledge: Experience using ERP systems (ideally SAP) and Microsoft 365 tools.
• Leadership & Communication: Ability to lead, influence and communicate effectively within a team environment.
• Qualifications: Vocational qualification, apprenticeship or HNC relevant to manufacturing is desirable but not essential.
What You Need to Know
Advert closing date: Wednesday 08/07/2026.
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect, and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodation to ensure your full participation in the application process.
To find out more about Nestle’s commitment to DEI: Nestlé's Commitment to a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
To find out more about your recruitment journey with Nestle: Recruitment Journey | Nestlé UK & Ireland
As the world’s largest food and beverage company we are driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, we serve with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families. Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for the future.
We can trace our origin back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland.
Today, we employ around 273,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. With our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 84.3 billion in 2020.
Our portfolio covers almost every food and beverage category – offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.
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