Production Team Leader - Nights
Location: Salisbury
Salary: £38,000
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off - Nights
Are you a dynamic and results-driven leader with a passion for manufacturing excellence? Join our team as a Production Team Leader and be a key player in our continuous drive for quality, efficiency, and safety in our bread manufacturing process. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a dedicated team in a fast-paced environment while enjoying a competitive salary and a unique shift pattern.
Key Responsibilities:
- Labour Management: Ensure labour costs are at or better than budget for manning and efficiency. Optimize labour numbers across your area to maintain budgetary targets.
- Material and Yield Management: Achieve or surpass budget expectations for material usage and yields.
- Downtime Reduction: Maintain downtime at or below budget levels.
- Reporting: Ensure shift manufacturing reports are accurate and timely.
- Team Development: Develop and maintain team skills matrices, ensuring that all team members are trained and assessed as competent.
- Quality Assurance: Aim for zero withdrawals/recalls and contribute to Year-on-Year (YoY) improvement in target complaints per million. Reduce product holds on the line.
- Audit Compliance: Achieve 'Green' status daily for Audit & GMP compliance in your area.
- Safety Leadership: Demonstrate leading and lagging safety performance, reducing total accidents YoY for the line.
- Attendance Management: Maintain attendance at or above target levels.
Disciplinary and Communication:
- Enforce standards of discipline, handling issues in line with company policies.
- Administer positive attendance management protocols, including first day calls, return to work interviews, and investigations.
- Effectively communicate with your team to ensure clarity of objectives and consistency of message. Support the delivery of improved employee engagement plans.
- Promote teamwork, ensuring fair and consistent treatment of all employees on the line.
- Develop strong peer relationships for effective cross-functional problem-solving.
- Recognize and reward success through the Shining Examples scheme.
Process Management:
- Oversee the entire bread manufacturing process, from mixing and fermentation to baking and packaging.
- Utilize machinery such as conveyors, checkweighers, ovens, flow wrappers, mixers (vertical, spiral, horizontal, continuous), packaging machinery, high tippers, and metal detectors to ensure efficient production.
Personal Development:
- Adopt a proactive approach to your own self-development.
- Develop key team members identified as having potential, including designated deputies.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in a similar production or manufacturing leadership role.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and machinery.
- Excellent communication and team management skills.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary of £38,000.
- Unique 4 on 4 off night shift pattern.
- Opportunity to lead a dedicated and skilled team.
- Continuous professional development and career progression opportunities.
If you are a proactive leader with a commitment to excellence and a passion for manufacturing, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and contribute to our success!