Job Title: Production Shift Manager
Location: Basildon, Essex
Salary: £40,000 - £47,500
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00am - 6:30pm (Some flexibility may be required to support production needs)
Holidays: 33 days (Bank Holidays included and Christmas off)
Reports To: Production Manager / Operations Manager
Manages: Approximately 15 production operatives
The Production Shift Manager is responsible for leading, supervising, and developing a 15-person production team within a food manufacturing environment. The role is highly hands‑on and shop‑floor based (70:30), ensuring that daily production targets are met safely, efficiently, and to the highest food safety and quality standards.
The Business is currently a manual production line and they are interested in moving towards a more automated production line. The production Manager is very keen to take on this project in the near future and would be lo...