Shift Manufacturing Manager

Position Title: Shift Manufacturing Manager 

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Position Location: Scarborough 

Requisition ID: 37492 

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 individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, 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. 

Inspire, lead, and develop a high-performing manufacturing team, driving engagement and unlocking potential to consistently exceed performance targets across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Environment, and People.
Take charge as the on-site Senior Leader during out-of-hours operations—making critical decisions and owning outcomes to ensure safe, efficient, and successful manufacturing performance.

• Deliver performance, translating plant goals into individual/team performance an development plans, creating a culture of
• feedback, learning, growth and inclusivity.
• Implement a development and succession plan for your key talent and actively create opportunities for people to learn, grow
• and succeed within your team whilst creating flexibility and a strong support network.
• Apply policies consistently and fairly using judgment, and proactively work to prevent the need for escalation.
• Carry out managerial duties, responsibilities and accountabilities within the Company Health & Safety and Food Safety policies and other legislative requirements and audit practices, ensuring competence and compliance of self and those within span of authority.
• Pro-actively manage production performance by leveraging best Operating Practices (BOP) and implementing appropriate actions in a timely manner. to address potential deviations.
• Lead on collaborative decision making to meet operational efficiency (OEE) and generating associated actions across manufacturing and Engineering as appropriate.
• Optimize production and minimize costs by leveraging knowledge of equipment and controls, taking corrective action where required.

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.

Accountabilities.

Accountabilities: Foster a collaborative, customer-focused team culture that reflects McCain’s values while driving continuous improvement through lean tools and principles—enabling efficient, timely, and cost-effective results in a supportive work environment.

Qualifications:

• Qualified to NVQ Level 5, with A-Levels, HNC, or equivalent industry experience
• Experienced Operational or Senior Shift Manager with a strong leadership background
• Demonstrated ability to consistently deliver measurable results in high-pressure environments
• Proven expertise in food manufacturing within the fast-paced FMCG sector
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, with hands-on experience driving Daily Improvement initiatives
• Holds a degree in a relevant discipline, combining academic knowledge with practical industry insight

Skills: Confident and independent thinker with strong self-awareness and emotional intelligence. Collaborative, persuasive, and adaptable, with a conscientious approach to work. Analytically minded with a natural aptitude for interpreting data and insights.

Location.

You’ll be based at our Scarborough plant in North Yorkshire. We opened this plant back in the swinging sixties, but it’s definitely not stuck in the past. It’s one of the largest French fry factories in the world and after a recent development, it’s also one of the most high tech. Our team of over 300 colleagues work hard to make sure the quality of our products keep our customers returning for more, for now and years to come!

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. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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 find appropriate solutions. 

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here. 

Job Family: Manufacturing      
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain 
Department: ​Production A ​
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough 

Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd