Experience Required:

• To manufacture product to customer quality and service levels in an efficient, cost effective and safe manner, ensuring that all operations KPI’s are met.
• Ensure all finished products are delivered at the specified quality and technical standards.
• Ensure direct reports comply with statutory and company food safety policies by means of regular audits.
• Complete root cause corrective action investigations into identified quality defects/faults.
• Ensure required levels of hygiene performance are maintained in areas of responsibility and run a ‘clean as you go’ policy.

Skills Required:

• In line with the Company Values.
• Ensure manning levels on the lines are appropriate to achieve cost, service and quality targets.
• Ensure all team members, employed and agency, are trained in line with GMP and SOP’s in their area of work and that training records and matrices are maintained.
• Provide a safe working environment for employees and visitors by maintaining high housekeeping standards, adhering to safe working practices.
• Ensure effective team communications by holding daily shift meetings and weekly team briefings.
• Actively manage absence in line with the Absence Management Procedure and holidays in line with the Holiday Authorisation Procedure.
• Manage area of responsibility in line with Best Practice Manufacturing principles.
• Ensure lines start promptly at commencement of the operation, and after product changes or stoppages.
• Ensure production line speeds and outputs are optimised at all times.
• Ensure adequate supply of product resources is available to the lines.
• Minimise waste across area of responsibility.
• Optimise equipment effectiveness by responding to engineering faults promptly and supporting PPM activity.
• Achieve targeted units per man hour levels across area of responsibility.
• Ensure all production, quality control and administrative documentation is completed accurately and at correct frequency.
• Notify the Shift Production Manager on a timely basis of any anomalies within quality, process, waste, and efficiency or administration issue.

Education/Professional Qualifications required:

• Computer Literate and strong numerical skills.
• Fork lift truck license
• The ability to work to tight dead lines.