Production Supervisor - Nights (FMCG)
📍 Location: Bolton
💷 Salary: £38,640 per year
🌙 Shift: Night Shift - Monday to Thursday 10am to 6am, Friday 8pm to 3am
Stafforce Recruitment are recruiting for a Production Supervisor to join a well-established FMCG manufacturing site on a permanent night shift. This role is ideal for an experienced production leader who is confident managing teams in a high-volume, fast-moving food production environment while maintaining strict standards in safety, quality, and efficiency.
The Role
As the Night Shift Production Supervisor, you will take full ownership of your shift, ensuring production runs safely, efficiently, and in line with FMCG food manufacturing standards. You will be responsible for delivering daily production targets, maintaining food safety compliance, managing labour costs, and driving continuous improvement across your area.
This role requires a hands-on leader who can motivate teams, manage performance, and ensure the site consistently delivers right-first-time production in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the shift to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant food production operations
- Ensure full adherence to food safety standards, hygiene regulations, and site procedures
- Deliver the daily production plan, ensuring shift performance achieves >90% conformance
- Monitor line performance, throughput, and capacity to maximise productivity
- Take ownership of quality performance, investigating complaints and non-conformances
- Drive a right-first-time culture to minimise waste and rework
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and control costs
- Manage labour planning, staffing levels, and absence management
- Conduct return-to-work interviews and support employee wellbeing
- Develop and coach production team members to improve skills, performance, and engagement
- Lead shift communication meetings, reviewing KPIs across safety, quality, delivery, and cost
- Ensure the factory environment meets the high hygiene and operational standards required in food manufacturing
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Experience supervising teams within FMCG or food manufacturing
- Strong knowledge of production processes in a high-volume manufacturing environment
- Understanding of food safety, quality standards, and hygiene requirements
- Experience managing and motivating teams within a fast-paced production environment
- Knowledge of process improvement and cost control
- Strong organisational, communication, and leadership skills
- IT literate
Desirable
- Experience working in a unionised manufacturing environment
- Formal qualification in manufacturing, production, or engineering
About Us
We are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive community. In line with our Diversity and Inclusion policy, we welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. As a Disability Confident Employer, and part of the Nicholas Associates Group, we are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, and we're happy to discuss flexible working options.
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