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Section Leader - Red Assembly

Bakkavor Group

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GBP 32,000

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Job summary

An established industry player in the fresh prepared food sector is seeking a Section Leader for their Assembly team. This role involves managing production activities, ensuring high performance, and leading a dedicated team in a fast-paced environment. With a focus on continuous improvement and meeting retailer expectations, you will play a crucial role in maintaining service levels and productivity. Join a company that values hard work and offers a variety of career pathways, along with a comprehensive benefits package to support your wellbeing and professional growth.

Benefits

Stakeholder pension scheme
Personal accident insurance
Employee assistance programme
Holiday purchase scheme
Dental & hospital cash plans
Discounted tutoring for children
Access to financial learning tools
Affordable loans via salary

Qualifications

  • Experience in a production or section management role within food manufacturing.
  • Knowledge of continuous improvement processes.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and control activities within the Assembly section on Red shift.
  • Conduct Return to Work interviews and daily review meetings.
  • Audit daily technical paperwork and manage performance.

Skills

Leadership
Continuous Improvement
Production Management
Team Engagement

Education

Experience in food manufacturing

Job description

Section Leader Assembly Red Days - Holbeach

We rise to challenges together

3s & 2s shift pattern, 06:00 - 18:00

£32,000 per annum
Permanent


Why join us?

We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

What we do.

This fantastic opportunity will be based at our Bakkavor Pizza site in Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire. The site specialises in making chilled pizzas and is 11 miles from Spalding, 13.5 miles from Boston, 18 miles from Wisbech, 23 miles from King's Lynn and 29 miles from Peterborough.

About the role.

You will manage, organise and control all activities within the Assembly section of the factory on Red shift. You will assign and organise staff alongside managing productivity and performance ensuring the achievement of the required service levels and performance results.

Accountabilities:
  1. You will walk the floor of the production area and manage start-up procedures, receiving a handover from the previous shift and ensuring there is no excess or shortage of labour in the production areas.
  2. Complete Return to Work interviews, attend daily review meetings and team briefings.
  3. Constructively challenge performance of area - quality, throughput rate and crew size.
  4. Effectively audit daily technical paperwork.
  5. Assist First Line Coordinator in DWOR completion.
  6. Document handover for oncoming shift and ensure packing area is left in a clean and safe condition.
  7. Review Productivity and NME Losses Graph to identify opportunities for improvement
  8. Identify performance management / training requirements within the area and manage the process / delivery
About you.
  1. Experience in a production or section management role within the food manufacturing industry.
  2. Knowledge and experience of continuous improvement.
  3. A solid understanding of retailer expectations and how we meet them.
  4. You'll be a great leader, capable of inspiring and engaging your team, understanding the pressure of a factory environment.
What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy:
  1. A stakeholder pension scheme
  2. Personal accident Insurance
  3. Free independent mortgage advice
  4. Employee assistance programme
  5. A range of voluntary benefits
  6. Holiday purchase scheme
  7. Additional life assurance
  8. Dental & hospital cash plans
  9. Discounted tutoring for children
  10. Access to financial learning tools
  11. Affordable loans via your salary
  12. Proud to be and loyal service awards
  13. Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions
Proud to be Bakkavor.

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

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