Production Supervisor

Danish Crown A/S; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food production company in Rochdale is seeking a Production Team Leader to manage a production team, ensure quality products, and maintain safety standards. The ideal candidate has experience in food production, strong team management skills, and knowledge of health and safety legislation. This role offers competitive benefits including generous holiday and development opportunities.

Benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Matched company pension scheme

Discounted staff shop

Health care cash plans

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced food production.
• Proven team management skills.
• Strong knowledge of Health & Safety legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the production team.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Monitor production schedules and KPIs.

Skills

Team management

Health & Safety knowledge

Continuous improvement

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Tools

Microsoft 365

SAP

Job description

Overview

This position is working on our PM shift, typically Monday to Friday from 14:00 to 23:30 with some requirement to work overtime some weekends.

Who is Danish Crown?

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues.

Why work at Danish Crown?

• Amazing 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays – that’s 36 days holiday a year
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and share parental leave
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Matched company pension scheme
• Heavily discounted meat for all staff through the staff shop
• Well-being programmes, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about
• Free Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families
• Free parking
• Free tea and coffee on all sites
• Development opportunities for those that would like to progress in a global business

Area of responsibility

Responsible for leading and managing the production team, developing and maintaining team performance and procedures to ensure the delivery of quality products to meet production targets and maintain cost efficiency and safe working conditions.

Specific Tasks

• Ensure that production processes are in line with company set standards and regulatory requirements
• Assist the Production Manager on quality control throughout the production facility
• Accurately complete all necessary documentation for regulatory compliance
• Responsible for training and inducting any new employees into the team
• Coach the production team on company health and safety practices
• Communicate expectations to production team members and evaluate their performance, taking responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of KPIs
• Implement relevant emergency response procedures in emergency situations
• Regularly check the machinery and checkpoints to ensure safe and efficient workflow
• Assist in the development and monitoring of production schedules for any products / parts
• Compile reports about production and provide management with updates
• Manage the repair or replacement of faulty production equipment
• Ensure all resources and assets are used efficiently and correctly
• Run an efficient production line and identify any potential areas for improvement within the production process
• Maintain high levels of hygiene and quality standards
• Enforce compliance with Health and Safety policies and procedures and investigate and report on near misses and accidents
• Completion of production, cleaning, and compliance paperwork
• Monitor inventory of production materials
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to change as required

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience of production, preferably within a fast-paced food production industry
• Proven experience of managing and motivating a team to consistently achieve KPI targets and managing people issues
• Strong knowledge and working experience of Health & Safety Legislation and practices
• Experience of driving continuous improvement
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 and use of Enterprise Resource Planning software e.g. SAP
• Good analytical skills in data control and understanding of production processes
• Good problem-solving techniques and understanding of lean manufacturing
• Demonstrates behaviour aligned with company leadership principles
• Works collaboratively with others, seeks to understand different perspectives and include others