Job Description

Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

Production Shift Manager (also known internally as FLM)

Bradford

A great opportunity has arisen at Hovis for a Production Shift Manager to lead and develop all shift-based production activities while driving improvements within agreed safety, cost, quality, and timescale criteria, in order to optimise the use of all assets.

You will be responsible for ensuring the shift team’s compliance with all relevant Hovis Ltd and Legislative Health & Safety requirements within the working environment.

• Ensure safety is paramount, actively leading by example delivering a zero-accident culture

• Enhance controls, processes & systems where possible

• Actions and supports the team to meet or exceed all the defined KPI’s for the shift.

Ideal experiences / Qualifications / capabilities:

• Relevant industry experience

• Leadership and people management skills – the experience of managing teams in an FMCG manufacturing environment

• IT literate

• Good verbal and numerate skills

• An advanced food hygiene qualification

• Experience of working effectively in a Trade Union environment.

• Demonstrated experience within a manufacturing environment

• People management experience

• Exceptional supply chain experience will be considered in lieu of qualifications.

Desirable:

• BRC & third party audit exposure

• Plant baking qualifications
• Lean / six sigma experience

• Food hygiene level 3

• IOSH managing safely

• HACCP level 2

• Experience of working in a bakery and Knowledge of basic baking techniques

Benefits Baked In

All colleagues can choose from a wide range of benefits in addition to salaries, based on their individual needs.

• Three levels of pension scheme to choose from - employer contribution of up to 7.5%

• Aviva DigiCare+ Workplace App includes: 'at home' Annual Health Check, Digital GP consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Medical Opinions and much more

• Enhanced parental leave (and flexibility where possible to suit your needs)

• Access to funded physiotherapy sessions

• Wellbeing support and campaigns to help you stay active and healthy, be financially prepared, and support your mental wellbeing

• Opt in plans for money back towards the cost of opticians, dentist, physiotherapist and more

• A benefits platform for all, Hovis Choice:

• £££ Savings and cashback offers on day-to-day spending

• Eyecare vouchers

• Cycle to work scheme