Production Team Leader

Geary's Bakeries Ltd; Glenfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bakery company in Glenfield is seeking a Production Team Leader for the Night Shift. The successful candidate will manage and develop the production team, ensuring high standards of food safety and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include overseeing documentation of production processes and ensuring staff training. This role promotes a positive culture and offers the opportunity to work within a passionate and innovative team. Candidates should have strong leadership qualities and the ability to work under pressure.

Benefits

Free delicious bread

Cycle to Work scheme

Referral bonus up to £500

Qualifications

• Ability to work with cross functional departments to meet company goals.
• Experience in manufacturing, ideally in a bakery.
• Good understanding of Food Safety and Health and Safety is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team to produce bread.
• Ensure adherence to food safety standards.
• Control team operations effectively.
• Communicate with supervisors and report incidents.
• Drive a health and safety culture within the team.

Skills

Ability to work with cross functional departments

Ability to work under pressure

Drives continuous improvement

Enthusiastic and tenacious

Planning skills

Job description

Production Team Leader - NIGHT SHIFT

Shift: 4/7
Sunday - Wednesday OR Wednesday - Saturday
Hours: 6pm-6am
Location: Geary's Bakeries Ltd | Unit D | Optimus Way | Glenfield | Leicester | LE3 8JR
Rate: £14.23ph + £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 skill 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, we're on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We're passionate about re-imaging 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 over 500 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.
We provide full training and support, and the chance to learn new skills from some of the best master bakers in the country. Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, a Cycle to Work scheme.
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!).

Legal

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.