Manufacturing Shift Manager
Job Title: Manufacturing Shift Manager
Function: Manufacturing
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 3 Crew, Days and Nights pattern, rotates over 3 weeks.
Week 1 – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (Days)
Week 2 – Sunday, Monday, Tuesday (Nights) Friday, Saturday (Days)
Week 3 – Sunday, Monday (Days), Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Nights)
Location: Eastwood
Are you a Team Manager within a manufacturing or production environment on top of your game, looking for a new opportunity in an FMCG role? Look no further, our Eastwood Bakery is currently on the lookout for an Area Lead to join their team!
Essential Ingredients
- Strong communication skills – able to give clear, simple direction that others can easily understand and act on
- Confident decision‑making – makes practical decisions at pace to keep work moving forward
- Effective coaching approach – builds capability through support, guidance, and constructive feedback
- Motivational leadership style – keeps teams focused, positive, and productive
- High emotional intelligence – able to read situations and adapt behaviour calmly and appropriately
- Understanding of HSE compliance activities within the workplace
- Experience of Lean, Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement methodologies
- Background in monitoring equipment compliance, with the ability to identify and resolve issues quickly
- Understanding of site‑level planning activities
- Proven capability in coaching and developing teams to achieve KPIs and targets, while nurturing future talent
The Recipe
As an Manufacturing Shift Manager at Warburtons, you will play a pivotal role in driving excellence, innovation and efficiency across your production area — whether that’s bread, crumpets or our new pancake operation. Leading a dedicated team, you’ll lead and oversee daily production activities, and champion our commitments to quality and safety.
Our Site
Did you know there are two bakery sites in Bolton (Bolton & Variety), a distribution hub, a newly built Innovation Centre, Test Bakery, and our Head Office?
With major site and group initiatives underway, including our significant pancake line investment, there has never been a more exciting time to join us.
Extra Dough
At last and by no means least, you will want to know what your breads worth:
- A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
- Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you so you have the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave.
- Award winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%
- Life assurance
- Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
- Continued investment in your personal development
- Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
- Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
