Overview of role

Location: Biggleswade

Shift Pattern: Day shift 4-on-4-off, 6am-6pm

Closing date: 11th March 2026

At Jordan’s Cereals, we’re not just about making great products — we’re about building a workplace where people thrive. If you’re someone who leads with courage, asks the right questions, and brings people together to make things happen, then this could be the perfect next step in your career.

We’re looking for a Shift Leader to join our friendly and ambitious team. As part of the ABF group, we have big plans for the next five years, you’ll play a key role in shaping our future. The role is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to be responsible for the day-to-day shift management of a shift team, leading and motivating them whilst ensuring that we meet challenging customer demands and business objectives on time, to the required standards.

The Shift Leader working pattern would require full flexibility across the week as it is worked on a 4 on 4 of rotation. For example, one week you would work Monday to Thursday, then the following week would be Tuesday to Friday. This will be day shift only, working 6am-6pm. 

Key Accountabilities

Our Production Manager is looking for a team member to... 

• Lead boldly — Leading and developing the team to high performance through recruitment, training, coaching, communication, and motivation.
• Stay curious — Proactively promoting a continuous improvement culture, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Do the right thing together — Ensuring adherence to safe systems of work, protecting the health and safety of yourself and others and maintaining food safety culture and quality standards, ensuring legal, customer, and certification requirements are met.
• Make it happen — Delivering Production, Efficiency, and non‑productive hours targets (KBIs) and turning improvement ideas into action, not just identifying opportunities but implementing solutions.

The Right Person

If you share our values... 

Be Bold, Be Curious, Do the Right Thing Together, Make It Happen

And you have the following skills and experiences.... 
•    Experience of working in an environment that has Health and Safety as a high priority, ideally where behavioural safety has been rolled out. 
•    Experience within FMCG production environment and managing teams. 
•    Able to demonstrate the successful management and delivery of improvement projects. 
•    Able to demonstrate effective people management skills. 

We can offer.... 
 
•    Attractive Salary  
•    Bonus Scheme (up to 5%) 
•    Pension Scheme – up to 10% employer contributions
•    Buy holiday scheme    
•    Discounted products 
•    Health Cash Plan 
•    Career opportunities - ABF group employs 128,000 employees worldwide. 
•    Discounts on over 900 retailers on our discount platform  
•    Generous family leave policy  
•    Leadership development  
•    Group Cycle to work scheme 
•    Free Parking 

Together we inspire better wellbeing by creating a positive working environment that is rich in diversity, where we create equity in opportunities, where we can all be ourselves, and where we all feel that we belong.     

We want to ensure the recruitment process works for everyone. If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please email recruitment@jordansryvita.com to discuss these adjustments. 

Our brands are sold worldwide and have great credentials in environmental sustainability. 

Apply now and let's see what we can do together! 

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