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Do you have the passion and desire to constantly strive for better? Have genuine care for dogs, their humans and our team (aka squad members), want to create a best in class customer experience and all whilst making it a great place to work. Then this is the job for you!

As a Production Team Leader you will help lead activity in our meal production area which includes meal preparation, packing and cooking. Reporting into the Shift Operations Manager you'll support the daily operations and ensure our dogs are provided with the very best human-quality meals.

As part of the role, you will:

• Be accountable for upkeep and delivery of high safety, through conducting daily Health and Safety audits with your Squad members, raising corrective actions to any nasties you may find.
• Be competent in completing thorough Accident Investigations through root cause analysis and completing near miss reports. Ensuring that corrective actions are raised and closed out in a timely manner.
• Review training and development of staff through all areas of the kitchen by ensuring that Squad members are trained against relevant SOPs and other documentation.
• Ensure that labour is managed effectively to ensure production can be maintained through management of holidays and absences.
• Have the ability to confidentially undertake regular 1:1's with Squad members, as well as carry out other People related activities such as Return to works, Investigations, Interviews and appropriate follow up processes if and where warranted
• Quality & hygiene standards are increasingly important to us, so ensure that GMP standards are maintained at all times. As well as verification of IMS checks from cooking of our products to cleaning of all our equipment.
• Provide supervision, support and leadership to the Production team in pursuit of key operational metrics of quality, output and waste. Ensuring that you are reactive in times of deviations from the agreed targets.
• Have had some experience in leading continuous improvements and problem-solving initiatives which contribute to savings within the department/company.
• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively with the SLT team when needed particularly in times when the Shift Operations Manager may be away from the business.
• Ensure daily handovers between departments are completed - ensuring the relevant detail is captured so each shift oncoming is a success.
• Work closely with the procurement and planning team to ensure meal output meets sales demand.
• Work well with multiple functional teams including Engineering, Technical, Warehouse and Order fulfilment.
• Be present - ensuring you have a strong presence on the production floor - so issues can be dealt with head on. Ensuring any issues can be immediately escalated.

A bit about you:

• Loves dogs (naturally)
• Strong production background in an FMCG manufacturing environment
• Experience in a high-speed volume manufacturing environment
• Leadership experience with broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation
• Pragmatic, adaptable, resilient and humble
• Well-practiced planning, organisation and scheduling skills
• Someone who loves the pace and excitement of FMCG manufacturing
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to build something from the ground up
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Drives for results, action oriented, problem solving, priority setting

A bit about us

At Butternut, our mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a team of forward-thinking, driven people who love dogs as much as we do. And we need quite a big kitchen too. Which is precisely why we have built one.

Located in Doncaster, Rudie's Kitchen will be the place where all the magic happens, so to speak. It's where our tasty Butternut meals and treats will be gently cooked, using human-quality ingredients because, the way we see it, you wouldn't serve food to dogs that you wouldn't be happy to eat yourself. At Butternut, we believe dogs deserve better, and if that's something you think too, we want to hear from you.

Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (Co-Founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and we are now looking for brilliant people to join the team for this next part of our story.

Are you up for the challenge?

• A salary of £35,000 - £40,000 per year
• 12 hour shifts working a rotation of days and nights
• 257.5 hours holiday + 8 hours extra for each year of service (up to 5 years)
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Butternut Box employee discount
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Some pretty cool socials
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Pre - pay day pizza for all
• Free fruit, tea, coffee and parking

• The interview process for this role will be via an assessment centre around the 29th March, to enable our recruiters to speak to you before this time, this role will close on the 20th of March.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance
• We aim to respond to all applicants with feedback on their application within two working days.
• We are not looking for any agency support on this role
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career, if it makes your application easier for you please feel free to complete the application form in your native language, we are really happy to translate it afterwards.