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Production Team Leader

Employer
KP Snacks
Location
Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire
Salary
up to £34k base salary + bonus, pension & lots more great benefits
Closing date
19 Aug 2022

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Graduate, Operations, Production
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Production Team Leader - known internally as Advanced Team Member

Ashby de la Zouch (Home of Hula Hoops, Space Raiders and now popchips)


Full Time (40 hours): 12 hrs on Saturday and Sunday (rotating weekly across days and nights 7am-7pm/7pm-7am) with remainder of hours worked midweek across a 3 shift rotation (06:00-14:00/14:00-22:00/22:00-06:00)

 

Join our fantastic team in Ashby, producing some of the UK's favourite snack brands.

 

Successful candidates will be required to work within a line structure and operate on a rotating shift basis (days, afternoons and nights) reporting into a Line Lead, undertaking the following:

 

  • Competently operate numerous machines including packing and poppers
  • Take personal responsibility for health and safety and challenge others on H&S and Hygiene when it is not being adhered to
  • Help to generate and maintain compliance to JOP’s/ Risk Assessments. Carry out work in a standardised way
  • Minimise waste and re-cycle all product effectively
  • Maintain high standards of Hygiene and Housekeeping
  • Carry out & record quality checks ensuring appropriate action is taken when parameters are out of spec
  • Strip, clean and rebuild equipment as required
  • Carry out CILs on relevant equipment
  • Support Maintenance Leads/ TC’s on planned plant maintenance
  • Report plant performance using appropriate company systems and ensure action on/communication of non-conformance issues
  • Ensure operational key information is effectively communicated to colleagues and other shift Teams
  • Carry out duties and tasks across the factory as deemed necessary and suitable to reduce idle time
  • Complete routine checks, fault identification and mechanical/electrical repairs
  • Assist in/carry out PPM’s and action required follow up work
  • Gather and store line data/documentation and apply it as part of the problem solving process
  • To be an on-line trainer
  • Coordinate activities of team in minor breakdown situations or abnormal operating conditions
  • Effectively contribute to improved line performance and efficiencies
  • Maintain excellent housekeeping, health & safety and hygiene standards
  • Carry out all testing procedures for product as and when required
  • Cleaning of the units after a changeover or for a shut down
  • Fully engage with the IWS ways of working principles

 

The multi-award-winning culture at KP Snacks is friendly, welcoming and supportive. We encourage everyone to be the best they can be, working together to achieve great results.

 

We are also incredibly proud to have been named as one of the Top 25 Best Big Companies and one of the Top 10 Food & Drink Companies to work for in the UK (via Best Companies)

 

£34k base salary

Bonus

Good pension, contributions matched by company

Lots more great, flexible benefits to support your mental, physical and financial wellbeing

 

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

  • Numerical and Literate ability
  • Ability to organise and prioritise the workload as required
  • Willingness to be trained in multiple disciplines within the Advanced Team Member role
  • Excellent team working skills
  • Development of interpersonal skills e.g. ability to communicate with all levels of the business, self-motivator, ability to work on own initiative, acceptance of responsibility, commitment to and for the success of the business, continually seeks improvement
  • Understanding of the format of a perfect packet
  • Understanding the need to control job processes and the need to pay attention to quality detail

Company

At KP Snacks we are passionate about our people and proud to offer exciting rewarding careers across our business.
Do you like the idea of joining KP’s awesome team of happy snackers?  We have a brilliant culture and opportunities in many different functions, so if you’re talented, enthusiastic and up for a challenge, we want to hear from you.
Wherever you work at KP Snacks, you’ll receive excellent training and support to help you be the best you can be.
We’re an expanding company and – as part of the privately owned Intersnack Group – there’s always the possibility to develop your career further afield in Europe as well as in the UK

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