# Department Manager - Production

**Company**: Morrisons
**Location**: Bradford, West Yorkshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Department Manager - Production to join our team at Morrisons in Bradford. As a Department Manager, you will be responsible for leading your team to deliver great food to our customers, working at a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead your team to successfully deliver lines KPI's and drive business performance

- Coach, develop and lead your staff and establish a continuous improvement culture

- Work closely with internal and external suppliers and build strong, effective relationships ensuring that the site is legally compliant

- Ensure that all levels of waste are recorded, and are accurate including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and potential efficiency; accuracy and waste recording; downtime; product weights; and staff efficiency

**Requirements:**

- Experience of a Department Manager/Shift Manager or equivalent

- Experience in a large scale production/warehouse operation, ideally across Food Manufacturing

- The ability to coach and encourage your team and help them explore opportunities to continuously improve how they do their job

- The ability to problem solve, and implement process changes in order to improve operational performance

- Experience of managing budgets and controlling costs

- Strong leadership and coaching skills in order to engage motivate and develop large teams with varying skill sets

**Benefits:**

- Generous holiday entitlement

- 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores from the day you join us

- Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member

- Genuine career progression and development opportunities

- Subsidised staff canteen

- Free parking

- Competitive pension and life assurance

- Healthcare / Wellbeing benefits including Aviva Digital GP

- 'MyPerks' with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more

- Optional payroll charity donations

- A range of family-friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- coaching
- problem solving
- budget management

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