Operations Team Lead - Evening Shift

Job Title: Operations Team Lead – Evening Shift
Location: Craigavon

Health and Safety

Responsible for the effective implementation of the site Health and Safety Policy and to influence your staff. To discharge your duties effectively you have the following responsibilities:

• Complete Health & Safety Management 6 Pack Training within the first 3 months of employment.
• Ensure that the arrangements made by the Company to secure the Health and Safety of employees are implemented.
• Ensure that all substances under your supervision have suitable and sufficient risk assessments (COSHH) completed (if appropriate), are stored in the correct manner and that copies of all COSHH assessments are passed to the Health and Safety Advisor for inclusion in the COSHH Manual.

• Check that all new employees under your supervision are trained and given such information, instruction and supervision as may be necessary to enable them to work safely, without injury to health.

• Check that all persons under your supervision are made aware of the procedures for reporting accidents.

• Check that all persons under your supervision are made aware of the location of the first aid facilities.

• Assist the Managers in ensuring that all hazards affecting your area of supervision are identified and risk assessments are completed.

• Continually seek to develop safe practices and safe systems of work and ensure these are put into practice.

• Set an example in safe considerate behaviour.

• Check that all plant, machinery and equipment is safe to use and that all dangerous parts of machinery are guarded and that the guards provided are correctly fitted, adjusted and maintained whilst the machinery is in motion or use. Any defect must immediately be reported and if it is felt, in consultation with your immediate Manager, that there is a risk of imminent danger, then the machine will not be used until repairs have been carried out.

• Ensure that appropriate protective clothing and equipment, is in a serviceable condition and is worn/used by all persons present.

• Check that all persons in your department/s are familiar with the routine in case of fire or other emergency that might require evacuation of the workplace.

• Ensure that good housekeeping and hygiene standards are maintained throughout your area/s of responsibility.

• Check that appropriate remedial action is taken in respect of all reported defects and complaints relating to Health and Safety.

• Ensure that all incidents and near misses are reported.

• Ensure that all accidents, dangerous occurrences and near misses are investigated promptly and reported, stating the cause of the accident and/or occurrence and the action taken or recommended to prevent recurrence.

• Co-operate with the appointed Safety Representatives in matters relating to Health and Safety.

• Carry out a visual weekly Health and Safety inspection of the department and document all appropriate remedial action, in respect of all reported defects and complaints relating to Health and Safety.

• If any of the above arrangements are not adequate, it must be highlighted to your Manager for appropriate action.

Any employee breaching employee health and safety responsibilities will be liable for investigation which may result in disciplinary action in accordance with the Company\’s disciplinary policy.

Technical

• Driving a quality culture

• Full accountability for technical KPI\’s ensuring that the company targets are achieved and appropriate actions to resolve and incidents closed within timescales

• Awareness and understanding of actions to support and deliver on Food Safety and Product Quality Index targets.

• Support and when required, lead internal audits for your areas of responsibility.

• Ensure for area of responsibility, necessary process control checks are completed and sign off CCPs as required

• Ensure concessions in place for deviations from Spec of product or process.

• Ensure that all products meet the agreed customer specification and quality standards.

• Customer Service Levels to be maintained through Hourly line attainment to plan.

Production Performance and KPIs

• To ensure a good start of shift, arrive at least 15 mins before shift start, walk the line and complete verbal handover with opposite number daily.

• When required to, attend NPD critical path meetings as Operations Representative. Awareness and accountability of committed trials, ensuring Operations Team Leads attend trials. Manage and engage Production Operatives to be on the line at start of shift and present until end of shift to changeover.

• Management of quality culture – ownership for rejects levels being monitored and challenged if deemed within their control to prevent. Highlight and communicate poor quality material received and reject to supplying area or department.

• Reduce the creation of 2nd choice material and record reasons for generation.

• Ensure Updated plans are issued to lines.

• Deviation from Plan must be communicated and escalated to Shift Managers, and planning teams, plans to protect service issues must be clearly communicated.

• When required, attend unit reviews to ensure shift is on plan. Understand and be accountable for all deviations from plan, agree action to take during shift.

• Ensure labour standards align to production requirements, visual confirmation of heads and correct location on line in line with labour map.

• Conduct labour checks on products throughout shift.

• Responsible for completing swift changeovers, all materials/utensils and instructions are available before required on the line.

• Be present, where possible, at product changeovers to ensure target time is met, line is clear of previous product and labour is utilised on other lines or sent to break. Confirm the line is fully clear before you start the next run.

• Effective use of SIC boards as part of hourly throughput confirmations. Review and ensure your SIC boards are filled in hourly and huddle as required with the team. Take appropriate actions if you do not meet your hourly targets. Review line frequently to ensure Hourly Numbers are achieved.

• Understand optimum strike rate of each line/products.

• Understand full root cause analysis for all failures and support all learnings and key actions to avoid reoccurrence.

• Drive a process to ensure full optimisation of labour utilisation:

• Reduction in non-attendance through engagement and adherence to company policy

• Reduction in labour turnover through engagement of workforce

• Effective holiday planning

• Be aware of trends of all equipment to ensure full functionality and utilisation with appropriate maintenance plans.

• Ensure plans are implemented and driven to deliver peak production activity requirements.

• Monitor and maintain all customer service levels, both internal and external.

• Support with the delivery of projects to improve business unit and the factory.

• Ensure during and in preparation for the next shift all people, materials and equipment are available.

• Inspect your line for key factors (e.g. waste) ensuring green deliveries.

• Review team and individual performance through each run.

• Ensure handover filled in for next shift. Detail around reasons for not achieving KPI\’s.

• Ensuring waste is weighed and lines clear of debris.

• Monitor that all equipment is fully functional and interact with maintenance.

• Challenge non productive labour and behaviours.

• Holidays to be entered by procedure in the holiday book.

• Fill in Labour Confirmation within 20 mins of shift start.

People

• Maintain a good working relationship with the HR Department on all people related matters with full communication and consultation.

• Lead business values by example.

• Work with Specialist Skills Trainers to ensure area of responsibility is fully trained and developed. Be aware of all skills gaps and have the required skill level to run a shift.

• Demonstrate effective cross functional team working, including but not limited to, Technical, Engineering, Planning, HR, Learning and Development, Occupational Health, Procurement, Process Development and services to create a focused factory.

• Complete Team members\’ annual IPRs and all year-round feedback on performance and behaviour on a regular basis, identify training and development needs.

• Demonstrate positive behaviours to engage and encourage with a can-do approach.

• Clear understanding of attendance issues within area of responsibility, adherence to company attendance policy and responsibility for Return to Work Interview completion for all team members.

• Consistent application in line with company policy and legislation of performance management, disciplinary and grievances.

• Drive best in class standards in all people matters within unit of responsibility.

• Effective delivery of employee weekly/daily communications via huddles/briefs.

• Develop a culture where employee engagement and communication are promoted and actively delivered.

Continuous Improvement

• Engage team to make and drive small incremental improvement steps weekly.

• Assist in evaluating, utilising, deployment and embedment of a range of continuous improvement and lean techniques to deliver best in class operational excellence.

Environment

• Optimise energy usage, looking at opportunities for energy reduction and carbon footprint reduction.

• To work in a manner that actively seeks to reduce any negative environmental impact in relation to the processes and procedures operating within their area and across the wider business e.g. reduction of waste, recycling etc.

This is not an exhaustive list and the post holder will be required to carry out any reasonable duty that is requested within the role.