Shift Manager
Date: 17 Sept 2025
Location: GB
Company: ABF Grocery Group
Overview of role
Location: Poole
The core focus of this role is to lead a small team consisting of Line Leaders and Production Operatives. The Shift Manager; through leadership, will promote a high standard of both personal safety and food safety whilst ensuring the maximum utilisation of labour hours.
Leadership in this role will be in line will all of our SPIRIT values and behaviours
The role is working in Dorset Cereals on our Poole site
Working on a 2 week alternating pattern wk 1 0600 - 1400 wk 2 1400 - 2200
Key Accountabilities
- Delivering Results; taking ownership and accountability for managing Shift operations and resources to ensure efficient production plan achievement.
- Working together as one; the proactive involvement of stakeholders across the business in making timely decisions for the best business outcome.
- Cost; Manage and control material and labour costs to achieve budget and lead improvement activities for cost reduction.
- Taking People with you; lead and develop team to high performance including recruitment, training, coaching, communication, motivation and engagement.
- Setting the Agenda; supports and communicates innovation and consumer activities.
- To promote and lead a culture of continuous improvement.
- Responsible for ensuring the team is adhering to safe systems of work processes and acting in a safe manner to protect the health and safety of yourself and others at all times.
- To promote a culture of positive safety behaviours within your team, demonstrate strong safety leadership and address unsafe behaviours and working practices to coach the right behaviours.
- To ensure we maintain an Environmentally responsible operation though all processes
- Follow all Quality systems and procedures to ensure our products meet food safety (HACCP), legal and customer requirements as well as maintaining external standards eg BRC, Customer Audits etc.
- To deputise for the Operations Manager during meetings, projects, holidays or when required.
The Right Person
If you share our values...
Integrity, Passion for Results, Superior Quality, Initiative, Recognition & Teamwork
And you have the following skills and experiences....
• Experience within FMCG production environment
• Able to make sound and timely operational decisions within production and understands when to escalate
• Strong leadership skills
• Proven experience with risk identification, management, mitigation or removal
• Health and Safety Champion
• Knowledge of Food Safety legislation
• Experience in capital/improvement projects would be an advantage
We can offer....
• Attractive Salary
• Bonus Scheme (up to 10%)
• Pension Scheme – up to 10% employer contributions
• Single Bupa cover
• 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.
Apply now and let's see what we can do together!
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