Production Manager – Food Manufacturing – Evening Shift
We are seeking a hands-on and experienced Production Manager to lead the day-to-day operations of our client’s high-volume manufacturing facility in Naas Co. Kildare. This is a key leadership role focused on maximising efficiency, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring compliance with all food safety, quality, and health & safety standards. The ideal candidate will bring strong people management skills, a data-driven mindset, and a proven ability to optimise production processes while maintaining an audit-ready environment. If you thrive in a fast-paced, results-focused setting and are passionate about operational excellence, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
Responsibilities associated with this role include, but are not limited to:
- Manage all aspects of the performance of the production facility maximizing efficiencies and labour utilisation
- Generation of all production / management data (such as downtime, waste, process sheets, non-conformances, on hold logs) and dealing with accordingly
- People management of the production team with regards to resourcing, manpower and performance management
- Maintain constant adherence to all company, customer and legal requirements regarding Food safety and Quality assurance
- Chair the daily production meetings with relevant area supervisors, maintenance, quality and material supply teams
- Ensure production parameters are optimised to produce quality product to specification each time
- Ensure a continuous improvement mindset is implemented and applied in all processes
- Ensure all costs are monitored and controlled to ensure operations are within budgets
- Manage attendance, timekeeping, overtime, annual leave and monthly payroll
- Conduct employee appraisals and probationary performance reviews as well as ongoing performance management
- Deal with employee issues and disciplinary in conjunction with the Plant Manager / HR department
- Offer suggestions / new initiatives to a changing / developing process and defining SOP’s required
- Ensure handling and use of all ingredients / finished product targets a zero wastage approach and reduces and write off risk to the business
- Drive a culture of excellent adherence to Health & Safety of all employees through the maintenance of a safe working environment
- Liaise with customer service department to maintain/improve customer service levels
- Ensure the manufacturing facility is Audit ready every day
Qualifications/ Skills/ Experience:
- Third level education is desirable
- Minimum of 5 years in a similar position in an industry with high volume product
- Excellent organisational skills required and project management experience
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Previous experience working within the dairy industry a distinct advantage
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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