Section Leader: Production & Quality Champion

Worldwide Fruit Limited; Spalding; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldwide Fruit Limited is seeking a capable production lead to manage a section’s day-to-day output, ensuring production planning and scheduling are met while driving efficiency and quality. This role emphasises SHE adherence, GMP standards, and clear communication across tiered meetings to maintain brand integrity and operational excellence.

You will support daily targets, performance management, and training needs, stepping in for the Shift Manager when required and guiding teams through

Responsibilities

• Lead production team within section, meeting production planning and scheduling while identifying workflow inefficiencies.
• Ensure SHE practices are followed by self and team, daily safety walks, clean as you go adherence, GMP standards are continually maintained and supporting environmental initiatives.
• To support delivery of daily targets through section SIC meetings, leading team through performance challenges, ensuring all information and data is populated correctly and in full for data accuracy.
• To support completion of performance management process, completing 1-1s, conducting disciplinary hearing up to verbal warning level, managing resource daily, providing feedback, organising release for training requirements and help team members explain their training needs.
• To assist delivery of company projects through daily team check ins, gathering information and feedback as required from production operatives and leading by example.
• To support delivery of quality standards through production team taking responsibility of product quality, ensuring clear communication of risks as they occur and any process amends required.
• To lead section, SIC meetings and support daily cascade of key information to and from production team members, attending tiered meetings throughout shift ensuring the flow of escalation is adhered to.
• To ensure clear escalation of performance concerns, identifying solutions and supporting improvement initiatives including weekly top loss CI delivery.
• To be first point of escalation relating to order fulfilment challenges within section, identifying solutions or escalating to manager if support needed, while coaching Line Leaders to problem solve where escalations are within their control.
• To support customer activity, leading and engaging teams, ensuring daily communication of upcoming activity.
• To deputise for Shift Manager during absence from the business.
• To ensure brand integrity is maintained for Worldwide Fruit and our customers by following policies and procedures so the product meets the expected standard and specification. Ensuring that care and attention is dedicated to what we produce is to the best of our ability for all brands involved.

Job description

Worldwide Fruit Limited is seeking a capable production lead to manage a section’s day-to-day output, ensuring production planning and scheduling are met while driving efficiency and quality. This role emphasises SHE adherence, GMP standards, and clear communication across tiered meetings to maintain brand integrity and operational excellence.

You will support daily targets, performance management, and training needs, stepping in for the Shift Manager when required and guiding teams through