Production Team Leader

Due to expansion, new opportunities have been created in one of the UK''s leading players in the manufacturing and distribution industry who pride themselves on being on the cutting edge of the industry''s technological advances
Excellent opportunity for a Production Team Leader

The Candidate

* Previous food manufacturing experience
* NVQ in Food Manufacturing desirable
* Basic Food Hygiene Certificate desirable
* Working Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Health and Safety

The Role

Health and safety responsibility

* Accountable for ensuring the completion of near miss/incident reports and subsequent accident investigations.
* Understand the importance of behavioural safety
* Improvements in Workplace Organisation (PAWS, HandS huddles)
* Understand and enforce site safety policies and rules

Quality

* Ensure that all aspects of quality in the area are in accord with the company quality procedures.
* Ensure appropriate assistance is provided when quality incidents or non-conformances occur, that correct information is gathered to enable thorough Root Cause Analysis and that correct escalation procedures are followed

Performance

* Delivery of the production plan
* Successful achievement of daily performance targets (KPI’s) including: Material and resource supply management for the packing area (KANBAN)
* Productivity targets
* Ensure the appropriate allocation of resources
* Maintain productivity, safety quality and hygiene standards in the area using Lean, Continuous Improvement and Problem solving techniques

People

* Lead a team of multi skilled operators
* Responsible for the recruitment and selection of new team members.
* Understand the company disciplinary/ grievance and other key procedures and fully implement HR policies related to team members and their activities.
* Responsible for TandD of the team

Please forward your application in writing through our website.