Production Team Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 07 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £30,000 i £40,000 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive Salary |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 04 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Manchester, M90 5AF |
| Cwmni: | dnata catering UK |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | DCUK198864 |
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Who are we?
Dnata is one of the world’s largest air and travel services providers. We provide a comprehensive range of inflight catering, onboard retail, supply chain and logistics services at all major and regional airports across the UK. Dnata Catering provide expertly crafted inflight catering services, delivering fresh and high-quality meals at major and regional airports across the UK. As the leading Halal caterer in the UK, we also provide tailored experiences to meet each customer’s unique needs. We’re a leader in VIP catering, offering bespoke inflight to private and charter clients.
The Role
This role is responsible of the production and assembly of meals in line with scheduled activity and deadlines and that required food product is managed effectively to ensure that food quality standards are preserved at all stages of the production process.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure all Production costs are achieved to target
- Ensuring that all activities are planned and organised to meet scheduled targets utilising the identified best practice tools. Plans and schedules will include: Holidays, Rosters and work schedules
- Ensuring effective yield check management occurs through:
- Effective yield testing to verify theoretical yields.
- Ensuring identified best practice assembly processes are applied.
- Ensuring that the theoretical yield is achievable
- Agreement and maintenance of the internal delivery schedule.
- Ensuring that Period End stock take activity is co-ordinated and to undertake briefings as required to ensure accuracy is maintained.
- Designing and reviewing the effectiveness of contingency plans when changes to assembly are required.
- Ensuring effective wastage management through:
- Reviewing documentation and ensuring it is correct and completed.
- Effectively reviewing and analysing waste breakdown information
- Agreeing corrective actions and monitoring progress.
- Identifying and quantifying implications of proposed changes to process or customer requirements
- Agreeing and effectively reviewing action plans to ensure costs are controlled appropriately.
- Controlling substitution and wastage costs, ensuring that action plans are developed to eliminate problems.
- Providing, analysing and reviewing information as required ensuring financial targets are met.
- Manage the performance of your team to achieve targets and seek further productivity improvements
- Effectively reviewing the process management reports on a daily basis considering a general overview of performance issues affecting that performance, actions required to resolve issues and effective communication of the solutions.
- Attending the daily meetings to agree action plans and communicate issues and resolutions.
- Ensuring that you communicate effectively utilising all elements of the communication structure/ process
- Ensuring that recruitment meets current and future/potential needs.
- Monitoring and effectively reviewing team and individual performance on daily, weekly and periodic basis as required, initiating and reviewing appropriate action plans.
- Ensure compliance to legislative, customer and company standards.
- Initiating and communicating improvements when compliance is not met
- Ensuring security checks are undertaken and actioned as required.
- Ensuring that training of all team members is planned and organised to ensure compliance
- Ensure your team contribute positively to achieving an expected level of internal and external customer service.
- Maintaining regular contact with customers, ensuring assembly issues are identified and promptly rectified.
- Designing, monitoring and reviewing plans to implement changes to customer requirements.
- Providing expert knowledge for customers on production issues.
- Investigating, communicating and effectively actioning all service, people and compliance Category A incidents ensuring positive communication is maintained with appropriate customer personnel.
This list is not exhaustive, accountabilities may vary dependant on locality or role complexity and may include any other duties considered reasonable by the line manager.
Required Skills
- Breadth and depth of knowledge and the industry or field
- Required experience, the level and length required.
- Any other experience or knowledge requirements e.g., financial, commercial acumen, technical expertise, etc.
- Ability to plan, organise and delegate
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Computer literate
- Communication Skills – must be able to communicate at all levels
- An understanding of health and safety regulations
- Must be methodical, and logical in their approach to work
What's in it for you?
- An opportunity to be part of the Emirates global family.
- Free breakfast, lunch and dinner on site
- Free tea and coffee
- Simply health Plan
- Refer a Friend Scheme
- Discounted gym membership at over 2000 gyms nationwide
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Opportunity to enhance your learning through our inhouse apprenticeship programme
If you're invited to interview, please let us know if there are any adjustments we can make to ensure you're cleared for take-off and able to perform at your best. We’re committed to making the recruitment journey as smooth and inclusive as possible.