£38K/yr to £45K/yr
England, United Kingdom
Permanent, Variable

Production Team Leader

Posted by Hunter Selection Limited.

Production Team Leader
Bedfordshire (MK40)

£38,000 - £45,000

Monday-Friday 3-Shift (6-2 / 2-10 / 10-6) + 1 Weekend in 3 On-Call

Our client is a leading FMCG manufacturer that is making a huge investment in the factory over the next 5 years. Due to this growth and new production lines being installed, they are looking for flexible and approachable production team leader to lead their team of shift production staff.

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for being first line of contact on shift for all production & packaging operations
  • Shopfloor position, managing issues, workload allocation, production plans and progress reports
  • Work closely with the production lead to plan for the weeks production plans and map out in advance
  • Part of the duty manager on-call weekend rota - covering 1 in 3 Saturdays & Sundays
  • Waste management -monitor materials and stock levels, chemical & harmful waste contract supplies
  • Health & safety, risk & COSHH assessments, food safety - part of the HACCP team
  • Monthly GMP audits

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

  • Need to be a flexible character, working hours could sometimes change
  • Must have worked in food or FMCG manufacturing
  • Effective leadership, communication & organizational skills
  • Good at troubleshooting, problem solving & resolving issues
  • Must be happy covering a 1 in 3 weekend on-call rota - sometimes going into site if needed
  • Ideally have qualifications in food safety, COSHH, HACCP
  • Health & safety awareness
  • Production planning & workload allocation experience in a busy environment
  • Ideally have worked in a cross functional type role - dealing with engineering, production, quality

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Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

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