Section Manager Production

Gate Gourmet is the world's largest independent provider of catering services for airlines and is the core business behind gategroup, whose eleven associated brands offer customers a comprehensive scope of products and services for virtually any on-board need. We provide more than 200 million meals a year to our 270-plus customers at some 120 airport locations around the globe

Job Summary:

Working closely with to the Process Owner Assembly (Make & Pack, Pick & Pack and Wash & Pack), the Section Manager Production provides overall leadership and coordination while taking financial, operational, and statutory accountability within the section.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Financial accountability for section (for example, labour, material,
• Meets quality KPI's and internal and external customer expectations.
• Aligns section assembly process to defined master production schedule. Maintains Master Production Schedule(MPS).
• Responsible for compliance and improvement with the objectives established, daily monitoring of deviations and following up with corrective actions.
• Proactively manage team performance and provide development/succession planning opportunities.
• Resolve conflict/provide solutions by exercising high levels of influencing, negotiation and communication skills. Be a role model for the company values.
• Creates a positive working environment.
• Maintain legal/compliance across health and safety, food safety, Department for Transport (DfT), security, gate OPEX (in-house operational excellence programme).
• Define systems of working to ensure quality of product, service to the customer and team progression/development.
• Follow company, process and section procedures.
• Instigate and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Rotate through different departments/units as reasonably required.
• Ability to cover a 7-day operation.
• Support with any other reasonable tasks and requests from the management team.

Qualifications: Education:

• Degree educated preferred and/or relevant equivalent work experience at similar level
• Food and hygiene related education/training.
• Various management training.
• Desirable specialization in Operational and People Management.
• Degree educated and/or demonstrable continued professional development at a senior level is preferred.
• Professional qualification in operations/logistics preferred.
• Certificationor demonstrable experience in Lean six Sigma preferred

Work Experience:

• Previous experience in a similar role within a fast-paced Unionised work environment.
• Previous management experience with a demonstrable track record ofleadership within a Food Hygiene/Health & Safety/High Security environment preferred.
• Experience leading projects and people across organisations and maintaining mandatory standards to ensure the safety of products and processes and to improve product quality required.
• Experiencewith applying lean manufacturing techniques system preferred

Other Skills:(Certification, Licenses and Registration)

• Food Safety certification
• Analytical and Numerical skills
• Excellent organisational skills with a strong attention to detail
• Must always demonstrate integrity, confidentiality, and professionalism
• Ability to work efficiently using own initiative to resolve issues
• Ability to build relations and manage diverse teams
• Effective verbal and written communication skills in English
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales, prioritising as appropriate
• Proactive and positive/flexible attitude

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, undertake a CRC (Criminal Record Check) and provide 5 years of checkable referencing history.