Shift Production Manager

Post :Production Manager Hours : 40per week Day : 5 days/week Salary :£40000-£45000

Bonus-7.5% Department : Manufacturing and Supply Chain

Reporting to :APU Manager

Contract :Permanent (Full Time)

Shift:14:00 to22:00or 22:30 to06:30 Location :Kolak Snack Foods Ltd, 308-310 Elveden Road, London (U.K.) NW10 7ST Posting Date :21/10/2026 Closing Date : 31/10/2026

Job Description Purpose of role Reporting to the APU Manager, the role involves leading and motivating a team of Production Supervisors. The role will maximise the efficiencies of the production unit, focussing on completing the scheduled plan, cost productivity, customer service, and quality and employee relations.

• Key Accountabilities and responsibilities
• Championing a culture of right first time the role will be responsible for managing and implementing existing and new procedures for food safety, quality, hygiene and production.
• Ensure that controllable costs are effectively managed within agreed budgets and standards
• Ensure that plant performs to maximum efficiency and agreed performance standards.
• Delegate effectively to Production Area managers ensuring that priorities and objectives are communicated and understood.
• Manage scheduling of work according to priorities and make plan.
• Plan and monitor plant performance relative to KPI’s and improvement targets.
• Define resource requirements.
• Ensure that shift handovers are properly managed
• Liaise with other departments to ensure material availability
• Liaise with other departments to ensure that their activities are properly scheduled in order to minimise disruption to production.
• Ensure all business control systems are maintained
• Ensure that effective communication takes place with shift employees.
• Ensure that staffs are adequately trained in the right skills and knowledge for the effective performance of their duties and to meet statutory requirements.
• Ensure that the working environment is properly maintained in terms of health and safety of employees and that statutory requirement are properly managed.
• Ensure consistency and compliance to company policy and set procedures.
• Ensure daily, weekly and monthly briefs are conducted in a timely manner.
• Performance Management System for all Production Team Leaders.
• Daily review meetings held with full cross-functional attendance
• Knowledge, skills , experience and education requirement

Knowledge

• A good knowledge of manufacturing processes and GMP.
• A good understanding of the products and customer base.
• A good knowledge of Health and Safety /Food safety legislation
• Knowledge of internal procedures (e.g. attendance /disciplinary procedures)

Skills

• Dependable and credible leadership skills with experience of managing “ people ”
• Coaching and facilitating skills to develop Team Leaders and key operating staff
• Strong interpersonal and people management skills
• High level of commercial awareness
• Capable of leading change to meet the most demanding targets for quality, production and customer service.
• Ability to promote positive relationships and efficiencies between the various departments.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills – able to identify improvement opportunities and generate solutions to problems.
• Basic IT skills and Well-developed communication skills (verbal and written)

Experience

• 3 –5 years’ experience of an FMCG manufacturing environment.

Education

• Target NVQ level 3 status and above

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £40,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person