Production Team Leader

Ferrero; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Production Team Leader to oversee daily production operations at their Halstead site. The ideal candidate will have experience leading teams within a food manufacturing environment, focusing on achieving production targets while ensuring the highest quality and safety standards. You will play a key role in monitoring processes and driving continuous improvement initiatives. This role requires strong leadership, organizational skills, and proficiency in systems such as SAP.

Qualifications

• Experience in supervising a production team in a food manufacturing environment.
• Strong focus on health & safety and quality standards.
• Ability to manage performance, training, and employee engagement.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily production activities and ensure output targets are met.
• Lead, motivate, and develop a team of production operatives.
• Monitor production processes and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Leadership skills

Food safety knowledge

Process improvement

SAP proficiency

Job description

About the Role

As a Production Team Leader at our Ferrero Halstead site, home of Eat Natural, you will be responsible for overseeing a defined area of our food manufacturing operations. You will lead and support a team of production operatives to ensure daily production targets are achieved while maintaining the highest standards of quality, food safety, and health & safety.

Acting as the first point of escalation, you will intervene promptly to resolve issues, minimise downtime, and keep operations running efficiently. You will also play an active role in driving continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to improve processes and implementing corrective actions to enhance performance.

Main Responsibilities

In this role, you will take ownership of day-to-day production activities within your area, ensuring people, processes, and performance are effectively managed. You will lead by example on safety, quality, and standards, while working closely with other Team Leaders and departments to support smooth and efficient operations across the site.

Supervise daily production activities, ensuring output targets are met while maintaining food safety, quality, and compliance standards.

Lead, motivate, and develop a team of production operatives, providing clear direction, coaching, and support to achieve strong performance.

Monitor production processes, identify and resolve operational issues, update systems such as SAP accurately, and actively support continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and reduce waste.

About You

You are a confident and supportive leader with experience working in a food manufacturing or production environment. You are comfortable supervising teams on the shop floor, making day-to-day operational decisions, and stepping in to resolve issues when required. You lead by example, with a strong focus on health & safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

You have experience leading or supervising a production team and are confident managing performance, training, and engagement.

You have a good understanding of food safety, quality standards, and health & safety requirements in a manufacturing environment.

You are organised, proactive, and comfortable using systems such as SAP, or related systems to record production activity and support continuous improvement.

Our Benefits & Perks

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About Ferrero

Ferrero began its journey in the small town of

Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946.

Today, it is one of the world's largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many

iconic brands

sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com .

DE&I at Ferrero

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees droplets feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities-Con, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.

Find out more here .