Manufacturing Manager

Our client is looking for an experienced Manufacturing Manager to lead and continuously improve manufacturing operations at a specialist production facility. This role focuses on health and safety, operational standards and has ownership for the sites external audits including BRC.

• Proudly independent
• Ownership of all site and product compliance

• Own Health & Safety, through maintaining and developing H&S standards across the site ensuring risks are identified, controlled and effectively managed.
• Ownership of all external audits - including BRC and customer
• Manage SOPs and operational standards: Own the site SOP framework, including creating, reviewing and updating procedures to ensure safe, consistent and effective ways of working.
• Improve how we operate using your manufacturing experience to identify opportunities to improve safety, reliability, efficiency and ways of working.
• Investigate recurring operational issues, identify root causes and implement practical, lasting solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement and lead agreed improvement projects across Operations and work with teams to implement and sustain improvements.
• Oversee planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and equipment reliability, managing the operations coordinator and external contractors to ensure maintenance is planned, completed effectively and recurring issues are addressed.
• Support change and development with practical manufacturing expertise when introducing new equipment, products, processes or ways of working.
• Maintain operational and food safety standards and manage our HACCP, GMP and BRCGS compliance to ensure operational processes and controls remain effective and audit-ready.
• Work across Operations and partner with the management team to improve standards, reliability and performance, providing manufacturing support where needed.

A successful Manufacturing Manager should have:

• Experience in managing operations within the FMCG industry - ideally within a food manufacturing site
• Proven experience in leading BRC and customer audits
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of operational best practices and health & safety standards.
• Ability to analyse data and implement improvements effectively.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.