Factory Manager

Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm is a family-run, year round visitor attraction and home to the famous Rattler Cyder! Since the company was founded in 1980, Healeys has grown exponentially. With a multi-faceted production facility specialising in a range of products from ciders, wines, preserves and spirits, and a visitor experience boasting more than 160,000 visitors per year, our business is thriving and has a very exciting future ahead.

Right now, we are recruiting for a talented and self-motivated Factory Manager to come and start their Healeys story. We are looking for an energetic, dynamic individual that can take responsibility, be adaptable and fundamentally be driven by delivering strong performance.

You will need to have a strong background in an FMCG environment, have a flair for quality, safety, and environmental factors as well as a solid background in robust succession planning models.

Salary: Up to £55,000.00 per year depending on experience. 

Overview

This role is responsible for managing and reviewing the control of inventories, from raw materials to finished products on our range of award winning products and merchandise. You will be responsible for making sure orders are delivered in spec, on time, and at minimum cost, meeting the targets for your department.

To achieve your objectives, your staff management skills are critical as the achievement of your objectives is absolutely dependent upon the contribution and performance of your staff.

The key objective of the interim position is to gain a full understanding of the working of the production department and build strong working relationships with the operations team.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Production Planning – manage and oversee the team scheduling and ensuring adequate resource levels across the year.
• Negotiate and manage contracts including quality, planning and commercial aspects.
• Maintaining a database of key material suppliers.
• Planning for, and managing the receipt of all goods, including external and third party warehousing.
• Managing HCCF delivery team to achieve KPI’s, in particular to achieve zero breakages/losses, and 100% on time delivery, getting it right, first-time.
• Lead and develop a continuous improvement culture within the operations team focussed on achieving World Class manufacturing.
• Ensuring robust stock control and managment
• Take an active role in maintaining Health & Safety compliance across all operations
• Train, develop and review reporting staff to ensure that procedural, quality, safety and environmental requirements are met, and improve individual and team performance levels
• Create a skills gap analysis and establish a training plan to fill the gaps
• Produce a monthly report to Special Projects
• Introduce ‘continuous improvement’ activities to improve individual and team performance KPI’s, reduce costs, improve quality and improve profits. Lead and develop a continuous improvement culture within the operations team focussed on achieving World Class manufacturing
• Liaise closely with all members of the management team to ensure that both the internal and external customer requirements are satisfied
• Ensure all operations are run according to current environmental and other legislation
• Represent the Company at ad hoc functions and other industry events
• To be available for any business emergencies

Work experience / skills:

• Food & Drink industry essential, bottling & kegging especially.
• Seasonal demand/control experience in a process manufacturing environment.
• Management responsibility
• Cross functional team activity
• Staff Training and team motivation.
• Management of performance standards.
• Cider/Beer making experience
• HACCP/Quality System experience
• Quality auditing experience.
• Organoleptic skills/experience
• Health & Safety at work experience and knowledge.
• Excellent IT skills.
• Report writing and presentation skills

Education / Qualification Requirements:

• Food/Drink/Management Qualification
• Educated to degree level in appropriate discipline.
• Trained Assessor – Quality Systems
• Health & Safety

Personal Qualities:

• Able to prioritise, manage deadlines, make decisions and negotiate
• Have good problem solving skills, calm quick clear decisions
• Flexible approach
• Self confident, self reliant and decisive
• Able to lead and motivate staff
• Have good communication skills
• Broad technical knowledge and understanding of scheduling/control problems
• Be comfortable working under pressure
• Be good with figures and information technology
• Demonstrating a “hands-on” and “can-do” approach and leadership

Joining the #RattlerCru is not just about what you can bring to the business. We have a range of great benefits that we hope you will make full use of:

• Subsidised Private Healthcare with Bupa (for permanent staff)
• 50% discount on products
• 50% discount on all food and drink in the restaurant
• Free entry for friends and family, with discounted food and drink
• Free festival tickets
• Cycle to Work Scheme (after probation pass)
• Chill out after your shift with a £1 pint!
• Monthly employee recognition for #FeelGoodFriday
• Monthly breakfast club

We look forward to hearing from you!

Please note that we politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. Speculative CVs from recruitment agencies won’t be accepted, nor the fees associated with them.