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Job Purpose:

Responsible for multiple production lines the Area Leader works with Line Leaders to ensure teams in their area of responsibility deliver the daily operational plan

Area Leaders provide support, direction, monitoring and analysis to ensure the processes followed to manufacture our products meet the standards of quality and food safety expected by our customers.

Area Leaders are cost conscious, product quality and specification experts, safety champions, and leaders in the site strategy implementation.

Main Duties

Safety

· Ensures ‘Near Misses’ and ‘Accident/Incidents’ are recorded and reported

· Conduct Health and Safety walks in area and identify any safety concerns, resolve, or escalate if needed

· Complete accident investigations and ensure all accidents are recorded and escalated

Hygiene

· Complete regular visual GMP checks, challenge and implement corrective actions

· Promote teamwork and shared responsibility for Food Safety, quality and hygiene standards

· Ensure Food Safety Standards are always maintained

Quality

· Continually conduct line walks to monitor safety, hygiene, quality, quantity, and cost

· Be up to date on required specifications in areas of responsibility and ensure these are adhered to

· Complete visual checks online to ensure product placement, quality, weights, labelling, and sealing are

within specification

· Ensure non-conformances, and any incidents are reported and escalated as required

· Support customer audits and complete non-conformances

· Take responsible for quality and compliance with customer standards of final product

· Ensure paperwork is completed accurately and at time of checks

Quantity

· Accountability for lines exceeding the plan

· Hold Line leaders accountable for achieving efficient line start up times.

· Be fully aware of production plan for areas of responsibility and ensure Line Leaders are aware of

required targets, conduct monitoring throughout the production cycle

· Understand process and equipment in areas to ensure equipment is fully effective and productivity is

driven by Line Leaders

· Prepare back up plan to minimise the impact of downtime on productivity

· Actively participate in daily meetings providing status updates and escalating issues appropriately

· Ensure effective handovers

· Ensure SIC’s are carried out, reviewed and signed off

· Work with the NPD teams to run trials and implement new product production within areas, working

with Line Optimiser to identify best practice

· Lead problem solving activities using root cause analysis

Cost

· Monitor the collection and delivery of product in order to ensure optimum running and reduce downtime

· Ensure daily yield targets are being achieved and yield balancing is completed, and exceptions

Investigated

· Complete root cause analysis with the teams to identify corrective actions to eliminate waste, improve

efficiency and support in any continuous improvement activities

· Proactively monitor waste against targets

· Be cost conscious when staffing lines understanding impact of additional agency and overtime in areas

of responsibility

· Monitor material usage to understand waste within areas

· Support the line leader in calculating yield wins and losses, and corrective actions as required.

· Achieve KPI targets

People

· Provide support and encouragement to motivate Line Leaders and team

· Coach, lead and develop team to drive improvements

· Conduct regular team briefing, and ensure all direct reports are aware of performance and quality

achievements and challenges

· Understand Labour requirements for production lines, monitor absence, turnover and vacancies

· Conduct talent spotting to identify succession planning opportunities

· Build positive working relationships with team

· Show empathy and emotional intelligence when dealing with escalated welfare concerns

· Monitor targets and set self and team stretch targets

· Lead workplace change initiatives, encouraging buy in through involvement

· Ensure teams understand required targets and how to achieve these targets

Additional Activities

• Complete project work as required

· Escalate issues to Shift Manager as appropriate

· Complete any additional activities as identified by the operational management teams

Requirements, Experience and Person Specification:

• Group and site induction.

• Previous FMCG manufacturing experience

• Previous experience of leading multiple teams

• Evidenced team leadership

• Level 2 H&S awareness.

• Food Safety Level 3

• Understanding of relevant risk assessments and safe working procedures.

• Understanding and application of hazard identification and near miss reporting.

• Accident investigation training.

• Willing to undergo training

• Reliable

• Attention to detail and accuracy

• Able to meet deadlines

• Resilient

High Performance Culture Behaviours

• Is a role model

• Shows trust, promotes collaboration and respect

• Displays a ‘can do’ attitude

• Takes accountability

• Engages teams and promotes healthy conflict

• Promotes development and growth

• Internal and external customer focused

• Gives timely recognition

• Creates agile teams

• Displays energy and drive

• Shows Pride in the company

• Champions Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Key Relationships:

H&S Representative, Operatives, Line Leaders, Manufacturing Management, Health, and Safety, Environmental, Human Resources, Technical and Hygiene, Training, Technical, Quality, Engineering, Works Council Representative, Slicer Operative, Slicer Optimiser, Planning, NPD.

Additional Information:

· Ensure that you understand and adhere to your personal responsibilities with regard the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 or Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order SI 1978/1039

o Take reasonable care for your own and other's health and safety while at work and to Co-operate with your employer on health and safety matters.

o Anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare must not be intentionally or recklessly interfered with or misused.

o Responsible for completion and documentation of line start up safety checks to include machinery, lighting, flooring, fire escape routes, housekeeping standards.

o Responsible for monitoring & reviewing staff behaviours, challenging unsafe behaviours / practices and correcting them.

o Responsible to ensure compliance to company policies, procedures, site rules and information and instruction given by your employer.

· To respect and honour the sentiment of the Cranswick ethical policies and codes of conduct, when interacting with your colleagues at all times.

· To work in an Environmental and Energy efficient manner and to respect and honour the sentiment of the Cranswick Environmental and Energy policies and Second Nature principles.

· Where there are any Environmental Permit conditions in place, to ensure that where you have direct influence on these areas, then these are adhered to within the required limits.

· To work in partnership with the Senior Management team on site to be part of the Culture of the site which drives Food Safety, H&S, Ethical, Environmental and Energy behaviours.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £16.31 per hour

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leeds: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Managing: 2 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: AL220523