Nature, nurture and wisdom
We believe nature holds the key to our emotional and physical wellness, providing gentle yet effective remedies. At Nelsons, we harness these powerful ingredients and infuse them with centuries' worth of expertise to offer traditional treatments for a modern world.
We're an award winning, family-owned business, whose passion for providing natural healthcare choices since 1860 continues to drive us today. Nelsons is one of the UK's leading and Europe's longest established manufacturer of natural healthcare products, having built up an impressive portfolio including the world-famous RESCUE® Remedy and Teetha®
What's next? Growth, and lots of it! We're experiencing a significant and exciting period of digital transformation and we're looking for talented, ambitious individuals to help drive meaningful impact across the business.
The Role:
As our Production Team Leader, you'll be responsible for the management of your production team, ensuring strong and effective leadership and shift management. Manage, train, and develop the team to operate efficiently enabling the team to deliver to the required quality and Health and Safety standards, demonstrate the company values and deliver production outputs to meet the company targets.
The team leader will also be responsible for reporting against key performance indicators (KPI's) and ensuring their team completes all activities, delivered in accordance with the required GMP standards and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Contract Details:
- Working Pattern/Rotation: Saturday & Sunday 6am - 6pm (Day) or 6pm - 6am (Nights), paid breaks included.
- 6 Month Fixed Term Contract - 6th July 2024 to 5th January 2024
- Day Shift - £18.47ph
- Night Shift - £23.58ph
Key responsibilities:
- To manage the operative team, ensuring standards are continuously improved and maintained through training and development via the PDP process.
- Ensure training and succession plans are in place to develop and upskill direct reports (team members) in all aspect of production and ensure a deputy team leader(s) is in place.
- Create, maintain, and enhance working relationships within the team and across the department.
- Responsible for the performance management of the team via monthly 1:1s and the annual performance management process
- Manage direct reports in line with formal policies, processes, and procedures
- Work with Quality department to investigate quality issues when they arise (SQIR's) and support to determine root cause and corrective and preventative actions
- Ensure all activities are carried out in compliance with Good Manufacturing
- Practice (GMP) standards
- Ensure high quality and accurate documentation is maintained in line with batch right first-time targets (BRFT)
- Drive a strong Health and Safety culture within the team and ensure all operations are carried out in accordance with Health and Safety regulations.
- Responsible for production outputs, ensuring targets and quality standards are met, and all processes used are compliant, as per the SOP's
- Ensure quality and efficiency of line changeovers/clean downs in line with schedules
Requirements
We'd love you to have:
- Demonstrate strong leadership
- Management and development of production team
- Experience working in a Production environment, ideally in a GMP regulated site
- Experience implementing and managing standards of practice
- Basic IT Skills (Microsoft Office packages)
Benefits
What's on Offer:
- Annual bonus
- 25 days holiday per year PLUS Christmas shut down - whoop!
- Free products and staff discounts to keep you healthy and happy
- 3pm Friday finishes ALL YEAR ROUND (if you have done your work, obvs!)
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Paid days off to volunteer for some awesome charities
- Cycle to work scheme
We also have regular socials plus all your standard stuff such as pensions, eye test vouchers and season ticket loans. We can tell you all about what is available to you when you start!
Nelsons is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. We are interested in every individual bringing their whole self to work and this includes you!