Production Team Leaders (Nights) in Gravesend

• Location: Unit K, Springhead Enterprise Park, Northfleet, Gravesend

Key Responsibilities

• Training and supporting area Team Leaders
• Ensure safe use of our facilities and equipment, while also ensuring safe environment
• Ensure the safety, legality and quality of our products, while ensuring CCP’s are adhered to
• Management of production staff across one facility
• Attend daily and weekly meetings with Shift Manager to analyse previous day/week, identify areas of concern and report preventive measures
• Ensure efficient labour usage to meet business targets, pro-actively manages labour and identifies skills shortage
• Liaise daily with Senior Supervisor on production targets and ensure a end of shift handover is completed
• Be the first point of contact in designated area of responsibility
• Ensures T&A system recorded hours is updated daily and registered hours matches attendance
• Understand and challenge area efficiencies, waste, H&S and compliance
• Attend taste panels and encourage reporting team to follow
• Set example and enforce company policies and procedures
• Ensure GMP standards and “clean as you go” policies are maintained throughout production areas
• Deputises on Senior Supervisor absence
• The role involves some manual handling and the ability to withstand working in cold storage conditions on a daily basis
• The role requires an alert disposition, working in the vicinity of PPT and moving machinery

Skills and Experience

• Continuous improvement mind set, daily search for ways to improve factory performance
• Good communication skills (talking and listening)
• Teamwork, able to work and liaise with others to ensure team goals are successfully achieved
• Continuous Improvement mind set, focused on daily search for areas to improve (efficiencies, cost reduction)
• Delegation
• Good Emotional control (EI)

Qualifications

Specific Knowledge & Experience

• Training and staff assessment
• First Aid Certificate (advantageous)

Specific Skills

• Good numerical and literacy levels
• Good delegation and inspection, able to instruct and follow up on requests from Senior Management
• GT machine operation

What we provide in return:

• Wagestream (track your earnings and instantly access up to 50% of your money as you earn it, without waiting for payday)
• On site parking with electric charge points
• Staff events
• Staff restaurant serving heavily subsidised hot and cold food
• Fruit pots on Wednesdays
• A supportive team

Days and hours work:

Wednesday to Saturday (4 days on 3 days off per week)