Operations Controller

Operations Controller – Crewe Distribution Centre

• Permanent
• Monday - Friday 8.30-5.00
• Highly competitive reward package including Group Pension
• Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

This role is based at our Bakkavor Distribution Centre in Crewe, Cheshire. Our Cheshire manufacturing sites make chilled speciality bread such as sliced baguettes, hand-crafted flatbreads and dough balls.

Accountabilities

• To ensure standards of quality, food safety and hygiene are adhered to during your planning process and issue temporary specification forms when required for none specification production run.
  
• Introduce new and maintain current KPI’s set for the department to drive performance and ensuring the team delivers to agreed targets.
  
• Establish clear and visible lines of communication between the workforce, management and other departments to encourage effective cross functional links.
  
• Liaise with external and internal contacts re: shorts / late deliveries / production problems / packaging problems / customer crate issues / raw material issues and general supply to and from the factory.
  
• Ensure daily production plans are in place to maintain warehouse stock levels, ensuring product from all 3 manufacturing sites are available in time for the picking operation, to meet customer demand.
  
• Stock Accountabilities – Manage all bread supply to production lines for condition / age and amounts using BMS system and frozen bread stocks to and from the freezer store.
  
• Proactively looks at ways to improve customer service – continuously working with other departs and building relationships.

About us

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food- you just didn't realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry with over 19,000 employees, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and bread for customers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose in the UK. Our customers include Harris Teeter and Home Chef in the US, and in China, we make food for Starbucks, Yum! and Pret. We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our passion for quality to join us.

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Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with a growing international presence in the US and China. We are number one in the UK in the four product categories of meals, salads, desserts and pizza & bread, providing high-quality, fresh, healthy and convenient food. Our customers include every major UK grocery retailer, including Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Waitrose, and some of the world’s best-known food brands. We have over 19,000 employees, our headquarters are in London and we have 23 factories in the UK, 5 in the US and 9 in China.