Production Team Leader

Geary's Bakeries Ltd; Glenfield; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free bread biscuits

BUPA Cashback Plan

Death in Service

Cycle to Work

Referral bonus £500

£10k prize draws

Job summary

Geary's Bakeries Ltd is seeking a Production Team Leader for the NIGHT SHIFT (6pm–6am) at Glenfield. Salary includes £14.94 per hour plus £1 per hour for night work, on a 4/7 shift pattern. You will lead a bakery production team, ensuring products meet specifications and KPIs, while managing holidays, training, and paperwork.

The role emphasizes food safety, GMP adherence, and staff development, with responsibilities spanning start-up checks, KPI recording and safe operations across the shift.

Qualifications

• Experience leading production teams in a food manufacturing setting.
• Ability to manage holidays, rest days and staffing sustainably.
• Strong awareness of GMP and food safety principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and develop your team to produce bread to specification.
• Ensure documentation including pre-start checks, KPI data and technical docs are completed.
• Control staff to meet roles, cover for holidays and breaks as needed.
• Drive health and safety culture and ensure safe working practices.

Skills

Team leadership

People management

Shift coordination

GMP/Food safety

Job description

Production Team Leader - NIGHT SHIFT

Shift: 4/7

Hours: NIGHT SHIFT 6PM-6AM

Location: Geary's Bakeries Ltd | Glenfield | LE3 8JR

Rate: £14.94ph + £1ph for Nights, 10pm-4am

The Role

• To lead, manage and develop your team to produce our bread.
• To ensure we produce our products to the correct specification.
• To effectively manage, holidays, rest days, and breaks whilst ensuring there is adequate skills within your team.
• To ensure all documentation including pre-start checks, technical documentation and KPI information are completed correctly and in a timely manner.
• To effectively control your staff to ensure they all know their own roles and responsibilities
• To cover the supervisor on holidays and breaks.

Key areas of Responsibility

• Food Safety (metal detection)
• Ensure all product is produced to specification
• Ensure you and your staff work to a high level of GMP, through setting standards and coaching
• Paperwork adherence (KPI's, pre-start checks and technical data)
• Management of raw ingredients, to ensure minimal wastage
• Work effectively to reduce the risk of both cross contamination and foreign body contamination
• Fit for purpose processes
• Ensure all colleagues are aware of their duties within production and clean downs.
• To ensure all staff are fully trained on their duties
• To communicate with your supervisor, finishing and loading
• Reporting all Near Misses
• Report all accidents & incidents, following company procedures.
• Drive our Health and Safety Culture
• Manage the team to work safely and work safely yourself
• Ensure equipment is maintained to a safe working standard and communicate any breaches effectively.
• Responsible for stock counting and stock rotation.

About Us

At Geary's Bakeries, we're on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We're passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906. We are 'born and bread' in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation. We're made up of towards 900 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry. The business has grown rapidly from £5m in annual sales to £125m+ in the last 15 years with strong and consistent profitability. We have an ambition to increase sales to more than £200m+ in the next 3- 5 years. A clear Vision and Strategy has been articulated, and this is being backed with major capital investment and a renewal and upgrading of the people, processes, and systems.

Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, BUPA Cashback Plan, Death In Service, a Cycle to Work scheme and a chance to win a £10k worth prizes annually! Plus, if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to £500!

About You

At Geary's, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We're a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities in our new recruits. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

What we're looking for

• Ability to work with cross functional departments in order to meet company goals
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain a positive and calm attitude
• Working to high standards, driving continuous improvement.
• Work enthusiastically and tenaciously to achieve goals. Willing to take initiative, co-operate with decision-making and act on issues as product quality.
• Planning your own time and your team time, to ensure all operations are carried out as effectively as possible.
• Ensure you and your team follow company processes and procedures.

Desirable but not essential

• Experience in manufacturing (even better if it was in a bakery)
• Good understanding of Food Safety and Health and Safety (the important bits!)

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at point of interview, and for the tenure of employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK