Supply Team Leader Milton Keynes, England
Job description
NEW PAY RATE – Supply Team Leader
Competitive new pay rates plus benefits
Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer is recruiting a Supply Team Leader for our Milton Keynes Site. You will play an important role in making sure some of the best-known drink’s brands in the UK are manufactured to the right quality and delivered on time to our many customers. Refresco is always changing, always innovating, always growing, creating endless opportunities for you to develop and grow your career with us in the future.
About the Role
Leading a Site Supply Team to ensure all loading, storage, rotation and receipt functions of Finished Goods, Raw Materials, Packaging, Waste, Raw Materials Ingredients, Colours and Flavours, and Pallet Stocks are undertaken to achieve the daily Site Supply plan and ensuring the Warehouse and Raw Materials Storage work environment is always audit ready. You will be part of a supportive team, led by the Area Manager and Front-Line Manager, working with colleagues who will help you settle in, find your way around and show you the ropes.
As a Supply Team Leader your main tasks and duties will be:
- Returns process/FIFO ingredients/pallet rotation and cycle count processes and audits.
- Automation equipment, data and function to minimise impact on supply requirements or OEE performance.
- Customer service levels attainment.
- Auditing all monitoring systems required by the Company to ensure compliance with Company Policies/Procedures/Standards and identifying and implementing corrective actions.
- Managing non-conformance processes and corrective action activities to ensure compliance with Company Policies/Procedures/Standards.
- Competent at completing traceability exercises and supporting role in internal audit activities and new product trials.
- Motivate and manage people activities to meet team performance targets and required Company Standards. Identify development areas relating to skills, behaviours and competencies and implementing team development plans.
- Participation in Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing activities including leading short interval control and root cause analysis assessments.
- Working as a key member of the Site Supply Leadership Team, demonstrating Company Values and flexibility to support other teams/departments where required.
- Leading the delivery of key performance indicators for the Factory linked to Safety, Quality, People, Delivery, and Cost Standards.
- Pro-actively identifying areas for continuous improvement within the production work environment/equipment/systems.
- Demonstrating a willingness to develop within the role to achieve Excellent Competency Levels.
See what it is like to be part of the Refresco Milton Keynes team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWQUT72RD1M
Salary and Benefits
You will be paid £36,424.75 – this is inclusive of £29,112.72 (£13.33 per hour) base salary, shift allowance of £2572.75 and a temporary supplement of £4739.28 (£2.17 per hour) until Jan 2024. Your shift pattern will be 2 Days 2 Nights 4 on 4 off. In addition, you will have 2 x your annual base salary life assurance, a good company pension scheme, a sports and social fund and free on-site car parking.
We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid , a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical advice and counselling to people working in the grocery industry https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/ , and Perkbox , offering our employees discounts to many well-known brands https://www.perkbox.com/uk
About You
You are going to be part of the Refresco team at Milton Keynes, so it’s important you work and communicate well with your colleagues, support them when needed, take time to understand what they do, and learn how we all contribute to achieving our goals.
The Refresco Values are what has made us successful and will help us and you grow in the future. If you follow the Refresco Values, you can’t go wrong!
Find out more here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
About Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks but we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and have invested heavily to expand our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from nearly 80 manufacturing plants in 13 countries and we’re only just getting started…
Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing own label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets. We also manufacture many of the best-known branded drink’s such as Monster Energy, Innocent, Ocean Spray and Vimto. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and are on the customer tables for every occasion!
We’re an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.
