Production Unit Manager
Bel
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Materne Boué • 🇫🇷 France
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Oversee all activities within the production unit to achieve SQCDME standards (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Motivation, Environment).
- Optimize productivity and costs while ensuring strict compliance with procedures and safeguarding the safety of your teams.
- Lead and unite a multidisciplinary team (3 workshop managers, 6 production lines, 90 employees in total); develop skills and support employee career progression.
- Monitor and manage performance indicators, implement continuous improvement plans, and optimize teams and production equipment.
- Ensure production targets are met: guarantee on-time, high-quality, compliant deliveries.
- Oversee the unit’s budget (operational and investment), analyze results, and lead productivity and cost-saving initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with hygiene, food safety, and environmental standards (HACCP, IFS, BRC, etc.); participate in continuous improvement and both internal and external audits.
Requirements
- Engineering degree (generalist or in food science) with 5 to 10 years’ experience in a similar role within an industrial environment, ideally in food or FMCG.
- Proven experience in team management.
- Proficiency with team leadership and continuous improvement tools (Lean, 5S, Kaizen, etc.).
- Strong skills in budget oversight, analysis and synthesis, and familiarity with production data.
- Good operational command of English.
Benefits
- Develop and maintain a strong safety culture within the production unit.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and initiative.
- Ensure compliance with food GMPs.
- Maintain a positive social climate and oversee training and development of team members.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
budget oversightperformance indicatorscontinuous improvementproduction data analysisfood safety standardsHACCPIFSBRCLean5S
Soft skills
team managementleadershipemployee developmentcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingmotivationcollaborationanalytical skillsadaptability