Senior Production Operative

Trapeze Recruitment Services Ltd; North Runcton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK is seeking a Senior Production Operative to support production management. The ideal candidate will coordinate production teams, ensure compliance with hygiene standards, and drive team development. This role offers a structured working week with some flexibility and includes benefits such as medical cash-back and enhanced parental leave.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Cash-back for medical costs

Life Assurance

Employee assistance scheme

Virtual GP access

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience in managing teams of 10 to 20 staff members.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and develop team performance.
• Strong understanding of compliance requirements in relation to hygiene and food safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Make decisive decisions regarding customer specifications.
• Coordinate production teams for timely order completion.
• Train and develop production teams to improve KPI performance.

Skills

Team management

Results-oriented

Continuous Improvement methodologies

Effective training delivery

Compliance with hygiene standards

ERP platforms

Microsoft Excel proficiency

Excellent English communication

Tools

Prophet or similar ERP platforms

Microsoft Office

Job description

Working for an aspirational business who have clear, structured, detailed plans to grow, resulting in long-term opportunities.

Our client is looking to appoint a highly experienced Senior Production Operative to support the shift production management team ensuring objectives, KPIs, standards and targets are achieved, maintained and where possible improved.

The role will be predominantly Monday to Friday 6am-3pm but there will an element of flexibility required with some weekend work possible.

Responsibilities

• Make clear and decisive decisions where necessary in relation to customer specifications, compliance and standards to make an effective contribution to the overall running of the factory.
• Coordinate production teams, ensuring adequate staffing levels to ensure orders are completed in full, on time and at optimum efficiency.
• Assist in the training and development of the production teams to help drive results through continuous improvements and challenge existing process to further optimise factory KPI's.
• Ensure employees have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to achieve business performance standards and ensure that individual potential capabilities are realised.
• Effectively communicate with departments and brief teams as required.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of best practice and lean principles, strategy, processes and procedures to aid and improve our operational performance.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in managing teams of 10 to 20 staff members, with the ability to lead, motivate, and develop team performance.
• Results-oriented and accustomed to working towards defined targets and KPIs.
• Familiarity with Continuous Improvement (CI) methodologies and ways of thinking; experience with LEAN principles is highly desirable.
• Skilled in delivering effective and practical training.
• Strong understanding of compliance requirements in relation to hygiene and food safety standards.
• Experience with Prophet or similar ERP platforms is highly advantageous.
• Competent in Microsoft Office, with strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent written and spoken English; knowledge of additional languages such as Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, or Romanian is an asset.
• Demonstrate ability to integrate well within established teams and contribute to a positive team culture.

Benefits

• 25 days per year, plus Bank Holidays
• Cash-back for medical, healthcare and dental costs with Medicash
• Life Assurance
• Employee assistance scheme
• Virtual GP access
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced parental leave

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