Primary Supervisor

New England Seafood International; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Sealaska Constructors is seeking a Supervisor for the Primary Processing area to oversee stock management and material flow, ensuring safety, accuracy, and timely delivery to factory lines and retail. You will lead a team, coordinate with hygiene and production teams, and ensure procedures and audits are met.

The role requires strong communication, numeracy, IT literacy, and a proactive approach to continuous improvement. Based at the Grimsby site with a focus on safety and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience in stock management and warehouse operations.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Strong numeracy and IT skills with MS Office.
• Proven track record leading a team in production or warehouse.
• Good health and safety awareness (IOSH minimum).

Responsibilities

• Ensure health and safety requirements and escalate issues.
• Maintain machine, equipment and pre-start safety checks.
• Maintain housekeeping and hygiene standards.
• Ensure technical compliance and audit readiness.
• Report non-conformances and close out within timescales.
• Ensure products and materials meet specifications.
• Coordinate receipt of materials with external departments.
• Manage stock transactions and stock rotation across lines.
• Keep KPIs updated and report daily/weekly.
• Input stock to KPIs and manage SKU yield.
• Maintain SOPs and risk assessments; conduct annual reviews.

Skills

Stock management

Communication skills

Numeracy skills

IT skills / MS Office

Team leadership

Health and safety IOSH

Proactive attitude

Job description

Responsible For:

The preparation and delivery of materials in the Primary Processing area to service the factory primary and retail operations. Ensuring accurate accounting of materials at specification to service the retail lines and food service. Maintaining effective communication both with external and internal departments.

Job Purpose:

Ensuring that all department tasks are performed efficiently, safely and to the set requirements.

Attendance at all T1 and planning meetings to communicate performance and raise departmental concerns.

Work closely with the hygiene team to have the correct available equipment.

Work Closely with primary lines to ensure plans are achieved.

Work closely with retail to ensure products are delivered in time of plan.

Key Accountabilities:

Key areas of activity that the Supervisor needs to deliver against are as follows: -

• Responsible for the health and safety requirements of the department, Reporting and escalating any issues.
• Responsible for all machines, equipment, and area pre-start safety checks.
• Responsible for all maintenance, housekeeping & hygiene standards of the department.
• Responsible for ensuring technical compliance throughout the end-to-end process, department to be audit ready.
• Report all Non-Conformances, investigate and close out within set time scales.
• Ensuring all products and materials meet technical specification on issuing to both internal and external departments.
• Responsible for internal auditing of the department and closing out any non-conformances raised within set timescales.

• Ensure all training of subordinates is up to date and refreshed accordingly.
• Responsible for the maintenance of all department S.O.P and risk assessments, annual review to be completed.
• Ensure a succession plan is in place to cover annual leave and absence, without affecting planned volumes whilst maintaining overtime budget.
• Ensure that department labor and overtime spend is maintained against budget.
• Responsible for coordinating the receipt of all materials and consumables with external departments.
• Responsible for all material stock transactions delivered to the smoking, primary and retail lines.
• Responsible for correct stock rotation to both the primary and retail lines with no loss of materials.
• Ensuring all stock is weighed and labelled and completed in KPIs.

• All stock management and reporting systems are maintained and fully auditable daily.
• Stock discrepancies and material downgrades to be reported and investigated and closed out accordingly.
• Ensure all materials are accounted for correctly at end of day and week stock takes, full report to be complied for the weekly operations usage review.
• Ensure all department KPI’s are up to date and reported at daily and weekly meeting reviews (Full responsibility of the inputting of all materials to the K.P. I’s)
• Responsible for the all S.K.U yield attainment against standard.

Key Skills:

• Previous stock management experience.

• Excellent Communication skills both oral and written.
• Excellent numeracy skills
• Excellent I.T skills minimum of Microsoft office proficient

• Proven track record in leading a successful team in either a production or warehouse environment.

• Excellent health and safety awareness IOSH minimum requirement.
• Proactive and self-motivated