Bakery Shift Supervisor (AM)

Our client, a leading and highly respected craft bakery supplying premium foodservice, retail, and private label customers, is seeking an experienced and hands-on AM Bakery Supervisor to support the daily production of artisan bread within a busy manufacturing environment. This is a key frontline leadership role, responsible for maintaining product quality, driving operational efficiency, and supporting the development of the bakery team.

Job Role

Reporting to the Assistant Production Manager, the AM Bakery Supervisor will oversee daily bread production, ensuring smooth workflow from mixing and fermentation through to baking and handover. You will play a vital role in maintaining traditional artisan methods while meeting commercial production targets in a fast-paced environment.

This is a hands-on leadership position, requiring strong technical bakery knowledge, attention to detail, and the ability to lead from the front on the production floor.

Responsibilities

• Supervise daily bakery production, ensuring smooth workflow across all stages of bread manufacture.
• Monitor output against production targets and delivery deadlines, escalating risks where required.
• Ensure efficient use of ingredients, equipment, and labour to minimise waste and downtime.
• Uphold high artisan and sourdough standards, ensuring consistency in quality, flavour, and presentation.
• Ensure recipes, specifications, and traditional baking processes are followed accurately.
• Support bakers with fermentation control, dough development, shaping, and oven performance.
• Monitor product quality at every stage and take corrective action where necessary.
• Supervise Bakers, Assistant Bakers, and Production Operatives during shifts.
• Allocate daily tasks and provide clear direction to maintain productivity and safety.
• Support training of new starters and ongoing team development.
• Promote a positive, respectful, and high-performance team culture.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, allergen, and health & safety standards.
• Monitor traceability documentation and production paperwork.
• Support audit readiness and ensure standard operating procedures are followed.
• Communicate production updates, risks, and performance metrics to senior leadership.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and new product implementation.

Personal Profile

• Experience within a bakery production environment, ideally artisan or sourdough focused.
• Previous supervisory or team leader experience within food manufacturing.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of dough handling, fermentation, shaping, and baking processes.
• Solid understanding of food safety, allergen management, and health & safety standards.
• Organised, calm, and able to manage competing priorities.
• Strong communicator with good problem-solving skills.
• Passionate about artisan baking and maintaining product quality.
• Reliable, proactive, and solutions-focused approach.
• Flexible and supportive of team development.

Hours

6am-3pm or 5am-2pm

6 Days Per Week (Sat/Sun rotation)

Ref Code: W013238

To apply, please send your comprehensive CV in strict confidence, quoting the reference above and for the attention of Jon Hemming-Nash. Please include current salary details within your application.

Due to high response levels, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not received a response within one week, regrettably your application has not been successful on this occasion.