Operations - Front Line Manager

Location: UK (Remote Working)

Shift: 6am to 6pm, 4 on 4off

Salary: Competitive

135 years of craft baking skills lie behind the quality of the special branded cakes, sweet snacks and slices we produce in Hamilton and 55 million products are produced each year. Lightbody’s is the UK’s largest supplier of celebration cakes to UK retailers, with Disney, Mars, Universal and Thorntons all within the portfolio of branded cakes made under licence. We also make a variety of supermarkets’ well-loved own-label cakes and in-store bakery bites.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As a First Line Manager, you will provide first line leadership for operating teams to deliver the range of operational performance indicators on a regular basis throughout the day. You will be accountable for the daily operational aspect of your designated area. You will be responsible for ensuring the production of quality products in a safe and organised working environment.

In the role you will be tasked with managing daily budgets, including labour and materials, and will be responsible for reporting on these on a daily basis. You will ensure conformance to daily plans, ensuring that your area is audit and GMP compliant on a daily basis. Our First Line Managers must put safety at the forefront of what they do, ensuring procedures are complied with which includes logging accidents and near misses if they happen. There is also an opportunity for you to get involved in project work with the view of continuously improving the way we do things.

You will be responsible for directly managing a team, managing headcounts, and upskilling and developing team members. You will oversee the absence management of your team and conduct investigations and disciplinaries where appropriate. You will be your teams first point of contact and it is imperative that you are able to communicate clearly. As a First Line Manager you will promote the company values and foster a culture of trust within the team and wider business to contribute to our wider success.

Ideally this is you!

• Experience in managing people and leading a team
• Can demonstrate sound understanding of the manufacturing process
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to take ownership and work under pressure
• Comfortable making decisions in-line with company policies and processes
  
  

What's in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
  
  

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!

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