Team Leader, Production - Sidcup

Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you! Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect? Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing? Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

What you become part of: Sidcup Operations plays a pivotal role within the CCEP network, producing around 50% of the GB SKU portfolio. The site offers a one stop shop to the GB Market with a range of packages that are single sourced from Sidcup, such as the wide portfolio range of small cans. Across their 7 manufacturing lines the site can produce 480,000 cans every hour, 96,000 PET bottles every hour and 48,000 Glass bottles. There are currently around 300 employees across Manufacturing, QESH and Engineering, experience here can lead to excellent career opportunities both in Sidcup and further afield across other GB sites and Pan-European locations.

What to expect: Reporting into the Production Manager, you will lead a team to ensure the successful operation of the production lines. You will ensure the production lines and people you are responsible for achieve the output required of them within production performance, labour resource, quality, yield and CRS targets.

• Working with high efficiency production lines you will deliver daily volumes
• Achieve planned downtime and reduce unplanned downtime events
• Collaborate with QESH to deliver and improve the site’s Quality, Environment, Health and Safety standards
• Yield management to ensure delivery of all yield budget targets in ingredients and packaging
• Improve and embed operational excellence through effective site routines, with a huge focus on data driven decisions
• Leading your team to deliver the maintenance strategy
• Working to achieve 100% compliance of maintenance schedules
• Deliver exceptionally high standards of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) with your team
• Grow, develop and engage your team via our performance management processes and successfully develop pipeline talent of the future
• Create a culture of safety by guiding and leading safe working practices

Skills & Essentials:

• Proven leadership skills
• Ability to make critical decisions within a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• A self-starter with a thirst for knowledge and hunger to succeed
• Ability to prioritise multiple tasks using initiative
• Knowledge and understanding of SAP is advantageous but not essential

The closing date for applications is 10/06/25. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks. We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day. From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth.

To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform.

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.