Mill Team Leader in Rainham

Monday – Friday

Early: 06:00 – 14:00

Lates: 14:00 – 22:00

Reporting To: Mill Manager

Tilda, part of the EBRO group, is an international food manufacturer and owner of an enviable product portfolio containing leading brands across several sectors and rapidly expanding new concepts. Widely acknowledged and recognised as the premium quality brand within its category, Tilda wishes to drive their growth in existing and new sectors with a first-class team who have the desire to share in the success.

Key areas of responsibility:

Hands-on and working leader with responsibility for the Classic milling facility. Leading a team of millers and intake operatives to achieve Output results for our milling center of excellence. The role provides direction to the team for delivering safe high quality food products, reporting achievement through new and established KPIs and a standard communication process.

• Overall responsibility for activities including milling, intake and bran out loading.
• Liaise across all departments to drive mill performance improvements on Quality and OEE
• Responsibility for contractors working within the milling areas of the site.
• Direct leadership for the mill team
• Aid the management team in delivering the site strategic plan under the headings of Safety, Quality, People, Environment, Delivery and Cost
• Report on shift KPI’s to update the management team on mill performance
• Lead the continuous improvement initiatives with the mill team.
• Encourage and facilitate knowledge/best practice, sharing between the shift members, and across shifts.
• Attend operations meeting as and when required for focused input and feedback
• Key decision maker, working within an agreed set of parameters.
• Lead contact for any escalations.
• Establish and maintain base settings and routines for center lining and OPM.
• Reporting to the Mill Manager or site Manager in absence of the Mill Manager.

Key Accountabilities

People

• Ensure continuity of resources on shift to maintain sufficient production cover – managing your teams’ holidays to ensure minimum level of cover is achieved at all times.
• Cascade agreed objectives to team members
• Manage all activities to achieve targets.
• Aid the management team in executing team training plans to ensure necessary skill mix and capability within the mill team.
• Liaise across all operational/planning departments to ensure continuity of the mill.
• Recognise and reward exceptional employee contributions.
• Maintain all Operating systems like WinCC, JDE manufacturing and Carval HR
• Manage and maintain all stock accounts and reconciliations on a monthly basis.
• Manage and Assist with Mill shift patterns and any shift consultations.

Safety

• Lead all mill team members to achieve a reduction in accidents and improve safety culture.
• Provide a point of contact for contractors working within the milling areas of site.
• Ensure contractor arrival is anticipated, and work is planned
• Ensure regular and effective communication on all health, safety and environmental matters
• Ensure that people who work for you know how to work safely and without risks to health
• Maintain a positive health and safety culture, where safe and healthy working becomes second nature to everyone
• Meet your legal duty to protect the health and safety of your teams
• Ensure all activities on shift are compliant with standard operating procedures.
• Develop and Review Mill Standard operating procedures regularly and maintain compliance.
• Be accountable for all accidents and near misses reported for the mill.

Food Safety and Quality

• Maintain and improve food safety and quality culture, where safe and healthy food production becomes second nature to everyone.
• Follow Tilda Head Office (Classic site) quality management system. Assess and close any gaps.
• Ensure 100% compliance with Mill HACCP plan.
• Work with the QA & Packing Hall teams to ensure any non-conforming product is correctly controlled
• Provide input to root cause analysis on NCR’s
• Ensure non-conforming products are recorded and reported. Root cause analysis is carried out timely and to a high standard, to establish cause and implement corrective actions.
• To ensure that the facilities always meet the requirements of the BRC standards

Delivery

• Lead and coordinate the team to achieve shift and weekly output and efficiency targets
• Report mill performance and use data to identify top losses
• Own and lead improvement plan to achieve Mill strategic goals.
• Ensure delivery of shift reliability improvements including mapping changeovers, implementing cleaning schedules, maintaining a high level of hygiene, sharing of best practices across shifts, delivering and reporting KPI’s with SMART objectives for improvement
• Generate and update a list of key milling consumables to ensure the continuity of spares required for the day-to-day operation.
• Liaise across departments to ensure efficient response to mill issues.

Cost

• Lead and coordinate activities to achieve target yield and OEE
• Investigating the causes of waste lead projects to deliver improvements.
• Ensure compliance with yield cost standards and drive yield improvements within the mill.
• Assist Mill Manager with temporary labour and Overtime costs and compliance to budget.
• Continuously improving the knowledge and skills of personnel through training and leadership
• Drive improvements through the mill teams.
• Train and mentor mill team on Lean and operational excellence concepts.
• Lead CI projects identified within a cross functional team.
• Embed a CI mindset throughout the team.
• Lead WinCC and JDE improvement projects.
• Conduct product and blend trials in the Mills

Arrangement for Absence

• Substitute and Cover for the Mill Managers duties in his absence.
• On call contact, shared between Mill Manager.

Person Specification:

Experienced leader in a food manufacturing environment with relevant / proven track record.

Able to motivate and lead a team and develop the core values of the business on a continuous basis.

Self-driven, positive mindset, embracing diversity and equality in a workplace.

Data driven, analytical and KPI focused, able to impart and share knowledge and experience in training other team members.

Keen eye for detail and quality and safety focused

Qualifications/Experience

• Degree or NVQ level qualification in manufacturing
• Minimum 05 years’ experience in leadership roles preferably in the food industry
• Rice knowledge or Milling industry experience preferred
• Forklift and Mobile plant license
• Advance Microsoft office packages skills
• MRP and SCADA systems advance skills
• HACCP trained / CCP trained
• NEBOSH OR IOSH level safety certification
• First Aider / Advance First Aider
• Fire Marshall / Safety Champion
• Confined space and working at height trained
• Hygiene and CIP training
• CI Training
• Lean Manufacturing training

Inhouse training and refreshers on Safety and Quality can be provided

Please note the responsibilities above are intended to describe the general nature of this position. It is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required for the role.

We/The recruiting Company are committed to building a culturally diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation and encouraging candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

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