Food Production Supervisor

Interaction Recruitment are recruiting for an experienced Food Production Supervisor to join our busy client in Dunstable. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the food industry and be able to work on both early shifts and late shifts.

The Shift Times & Pay Rates Are:

Early Shift:

Monday to Friday - 06:00 to 14:00

Pay Rate - £16.01 p/h

O/T Rate - £24.02 p/h

Late Shift

Monday to Thursday - 13:45 to 23:45

Pay Rate: £18.09 p/h

O/T Rate - £27.14 p/h

This Role Involves:

• ensuring all supervisor food safety and health & safety checks are completed on time and in full and ot raise any issues with QA immediantly.
• to manage and control costs, yields and giveaway within the Packing Department
• eensuring set KPI’s are met with the resources at your disposal and report reasons when not met.
• ensure the Packing area runs at optimal output in accordance to production plans, whilst spotting opportunities for continuous improvement.
• developing, managing and motivating staff
• training staff
• to take responsibility for the counsellings and identity training and development needs, liaising with the ‘Assessors’ to ensure the business has an effective, multi-skilled and engaged workforce
• managing and control the data collection systems and monitoring processes, ensuring that all documentation and communication is processed and delivered to the cross functional departments, as required on a timely and regularly basis.
• ensuring 100% compliance with the product specification to deliver product within agreed quality parameters.
• maintaining excellent GMP standards at all times in the Packing Area, delivering quality standards required of customers and external audits, for example BRC.
• ensure adherence to all health & safety policies.
  
• liasing with the Health & Safety Committee to monitor and develop procedures to ensure that the company has the appropriate structures, systems and processes in place to meet its statutory health & safety responsibilities. 
• opening and locking factory.
• starting up and shutting down produciton line machinery.
  
• putting in a 4 week staff rota to allow the Planning Manager to plan production accordingly.
• responding to emails.
• making sure company mobile phone is fully charged before each shift.

To be considered for this role you must have / be:

• previously worked within a similar role at Supervisor or Manager within a food production enviornment.
• able to work flexibly week to week between early and late shift.
• strong communication skills,
• a team player and be able to lead by example,
• fluent English speaking, reading and writing,
• experince setting up and shutting down production line machinery
• computer literate
• strong organisation skills
• ability to work in a fast moving enviornment
• stock control experience
• experience of BRC and customer audit requirements (desirable)
• experience using SAO software (desirable)
• experience of Lean manufacturing techniques (desirable)

If you fit in to the listed critera and are interested in this role then please apply, if you've got further questions then please contact Jack Ibbotson in our Watford office on (url removed) or (phone number removed)

Food Production Supervisor / Food Production / Team Leader / Manager 

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