Production Shift Manager - Days

Posted on 29/08/2025

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Production Shift Manager - Days

About The Role
Are you an experienced leader in a Production environment? Ready to take the next step in your career?

We’re looking for a Shift Manager to join our Production team at our AMK Peterborough site, working 4 on and 4 off This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and is passionate about leading and developing high-performing teams.
Key Responsibilities:

Lead and manage a production area during night shifts, ensuring targets are achieved.

Maintain high standards of Health & Safety, hygiene, and compliance.

Oversee raw material usage to maximise yield and minimise waste.

Monitor production data to track performance against targets.

Escalate maintenance and repair needs for equipment and facilities.

Manage and develop team members, including recruitment, training, and performance.

Ensure full product and packaging traceability and compliance with technical standards.
About You
Experience
- Experience of managing a team in a production environment, ideally within the food sector
- Experience of managing staff including HR requirements, recruitment, performance management and appraisals
- Experience to working to budgets with accountability for labour costs
Attributes
Enthusiastic approach

Hard working and reliable

Supports and coaches’ others

Respects other people’s opinions

Flexible and adaptable

Confident

Excellent attention to detail
About Us
- Here at AMK, it is our mission to deliver the freshest and healthiest products to our customers and consumers. Based in Peterborough, AMK continues to grow year on and year and can offer a wealth of career and development opportunities at one of the area’s largest employers.
  
  With over 90 years committed to delivering quality fresh food at scale, AMK Peterborough, owned by the AMFRESH Group, has a sole purpose to manage the packing, warehousing and distribution of products to Tesco within the UK. We have built a new state-of-the-art chilled food facility in Peterborough which employs around 800people operating 24 hours a day, 7 days. We are proud to have supported Tesco with their Citrus, Grape and other fresh fruit and vegetable offering for a number of years. AMK continues to expand and grow as an expert in our industry.