Production Team Leader £22,000 per year + Benefits

Production Team Leader circ £22000 per annum + benefits

Caerphilly area

A position has arisen for a Production Team Leader in a rapidly growing and fast-moving nutritional Foods Manufacturer, working a two-shift rota of days and afternoons.

Reporting directly to the Shift Manager, the Team Leader will be responsible for ensuring that the day to day operations are carried out efficiently and effectively within your designated area; Packing or Baking. As a working team leader, you are required to effectively lead the team whilst also being an active team member in the daily production of products and packaging control.

Support the Shift Manager by ensuring the department maintains maximum effectiveness by continuously monitoring production and process. Ensuring that machines, equipment, and resources are operating in an efficient manner and taking corrective actions where this is not the case.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure that Food Safety is key at all times within all manufacturing processes and practices, and this is embedded within the culture of the organisation.

• Manage a team of Packers or Bakers on a day to day basis, ensuring that they are meeting the required standards and targets in relation to Output, Quality, H&S, Continuous Improvement, etc. Ensuring that they are working within the main scope of their roles, responsibilities and expectations as outlined within the job description.

• Motivate, coach and develop your shift by setting, agreeing and reviewing individuals and department targets and objectives.

• Support the Shift Manager in completing performance reviews with all employees on shift identifying where further training and development is required for each individual.

• Support a culture of continuous improvement and continuously strive to identify areas of improvement that will support the improvement of site efficiency.

• Ensure that employees are following and adhering to site policies and procedures; SOP’s, Work Instructions, Safe Systems of Work, Accident Reporting, etc.

• Support the Shift Manager in relation to production performance and offer recommendations and suggestions of how efficiency can be increased within the area(s).

• Demonstrate a good understanding of allergen control and segregation, to minimise the risk of cross contamination within the manufacturing environment.

• Complete regular audits of your work area, advising where improvements can be made in the efficiency of the area/ department, and any areas of concern and share this information with the team.

• Ensure that your area of work is meeting all Health & Safety, Environmental, Quality, Engineering regulatory parameters and requirements at all times and to protect all employees within the workplace. Acting as a champion and enforcer of health and safety policies, procedures and practices, and continually seeking new safer methods of work where possible.

• Work with the Shift Manager to proactively manage your direct reports absenteeism according to guidelines ensuring RTW meetings are taking place and also reviewing absence trends.

• Work closely with the Shift Manager to ensure that you are taking ownership and effectively manging employees and in accordance with policies and procedures; disciplinary, grievance, absence management, investigations, performance management, etc. Seeking advice and guidance from the HR department where necessary.

Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Previous experience of operating within a Team Leader role within a Food Manufacturing environment.

• Excellent knowledge of technical Health & Safety requirements with a relevant qualification - CIEH.

• Excellent trouble-shooter with the ability to resolve problems effectively.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of the machines and processes within the manufacturing areas; baking/ packing, weigh up/ hygiene to enable you to offer hands on support when required and effectively problem solve / trouble shoot.

• Effective team player.

• Ability to deliver performance improvements.

• Food safety qualification level 2 and above.

• HACCP level 2.

• Knowledge and experience of external audits.

• People management experience and knowledge of HR processes - ILM or NVQ qualification, Level 3/4.

• Effective coaching and mentoring skills with the ability to adapt management and training style to suit the learner(s).

• Effective influencer and champion of change management, with a proven ability to bring people on board.

Competencies

Proven ability of managing a team in a fast- moving manufacturing environment and is team focussed.

High level of attention to detail.

Is flexible and adaptable to changing situations.

Ability to work to deadlines and able to prioritise tasks.

Create, maintain and enhance positive and open working relationships.

Open and analytical approach to problem solving, with an ability to find effective solutions and resolutions.

Comfortable working on own initiative.

Innovative thinker with the ability to ‘think outside of the box’, offering alternative methods of resolution.

Highly motivated and well organised.

Flexible and adaptable to change.

Able to positively challenge and influence team members, peers, senior management.

Proven ability to continually develop employees within the business. Working with the Shift Manager to identify key talent and capabilities for the talent pool. Whilst also having the ability address poor performance effectively and efficiently.

Experience of leading teams to a successful conclusion.

These tasks are not intended as an exhaustive list of the post holder’s duties. The post holder is expected to carry out any reasonable request as deemed appropriate by the Company Director’s in order to support business needs.

Travel to work from;

Cardiff, Caerphilly, Blackwood, Newport, Cwmbran, Ebbw Vale, Merthyr, Abergavenny,