Position Title: Production Manager
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Wombourne
Requisition ID: 34386
About McCain.
At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Why join the McCain family.
• Your Life – we’re here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.
• Your Success – work alongside passionate colleagues who are committed to supporting your career goals, drive, and success.
• Your Impact – we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business.
About the role.
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
Are you ready to take ownership of a dynamic manufacturing plant and drive real change? We're on the lookout for a passionate Production Manager to coach, inspire, and transform our Wombourne plant into a hub of excellence.
What You’ll Do:
• Lead from the front: Take charge of plant performance, empowering your team to deliver exceptional results.
• Drive efficiency: Optimise resources to ensure production runs smoothly, safely, and on time, meeting customer demands.
• Champion improvement: Embed a continuous improvement culture, leading CapEx projects and driving operational excellence.
• Engage and inspire: Foster a collaborative, inclusive environment where team members feel empowered and supported in their development.
• Deliver results: Manage budgets, ensure compliance with safety and food standards, and meet operational targets.
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
What we’re looking for.
• Proven leadership in high-volume, fast-paced manufacturing (ideally food or regulated industries).
• A data-driven, results-focused approach with a track record of success in process improvements and culture change.
• Expertise in Lean Manufacturing, Health & Safety, and Food Safety best practices.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to inspire and engage a team to achieve shared goals.
Location.
You’ll be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together our small but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles, hash browns as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds.
The benefits of working for McCain.
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in ‘chips’. For working hard, you’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:
• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself.
Come and join The Makers to see why we are better together.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Department: Production
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd