Production Zone Manager

Why Greencore?

We’reone of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our
Warrington
site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

- Night Shift - 4on 4 off (17:30-05:30)

As Production Zone Manager you'll lead a team, and manage the consistent application of processes within your department, ensuring that products are manufactured to the agreed production plan and standard.

You’ll continuously monitor raw materials, all operational processes and the overall production environment to ensure that all activity comply with food safety manufacturing standards.

Effectively communicating with the operations team report progress against plan, highlighting any risks to the achievement of volumes and standards.

Monitoring and reviewing the team capability, ensuring all staff are clearly focused on their key objectives and are developed to maximise their potential.

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• You will need to have hands on knowledge and experience within a manufacturing/FMCG environment, ideally in the Food industry, using that knowledge to make good robust decisions to resolve issues quickly.
• Demonstrable analytical skills – ability to pull actionable insight from data.
• Prior experience of leading a team and resource planning in a people intensive, manufacturing/FMCG environment.
• Experience of managing large numbers of people in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Computer skills; including MS Excel.

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.