Team Leader

Blue Arrow; Briton Ferry; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Team Leader for an established manufacturer in the nutritional supplement sector. The role involves ensuring health and safety compliance, promoting quality standards, and leading staff development initiatives. Candidates should have a background in manufacturing and preferably experience in food or pharmaceutical industries. The position offers a salary of £31,471 per annum with a holiday allowance of 33 days.

Benefits

33 days of holiday allowance

Shift allowance

Qualifications

• Previous experience within a similar role, ideally in manufacturing.
• Knowledge of clean room environments is desirable.
• Experience in the food or pharmaceutical industries for at least 2 years is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage health and safety in designated areas and ensure compliance.
• Promote quality assurance processes and documentation.
• Coach and develop staff, identifying training needs.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement strategies.
• Lead by example and ensure efficient operations.
• Monitor and report shift performance accurately.

Skills

Team leadership

Health & Safety management

Quality assurance

Coaching and staff development

Continuous improvement

Job description

Overview

Blue Arrow is currently recruiting for an experienced Team Leader. This is an exciting opportunity to join an internationally recognised manufacturer in the nutritional supplement industry.

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £31,471 per annum including shift allowance

Holiday allowance: 33 days per annum (25 + 8)

Hours of work: Full time, two shifts, Monday to Friday. Rotating between mornings 6am – 2pm and afternoons 2pm – 10pm. (On rare occasions, you may be asked to work a night shift.)

Role Responsibilities

• Health & Safety: Overall management responsibilities for Health & Safety in their designated areas; ensure operators work in a risk-free environment, wear the correct PPE, and comply with company H&S requirements; review risk assessments and SOPs to ensure they are up to date, user friendly and contain the correct information/settings; report and investigate incidents/accidents and follow up with a full report within 24 hours.
• Quality/Technical: Actively promote a "right first time" environment; ensure food safety is followed in the production of products; ensure area standards are set and maintained; ensure quality samples represent the final production requirement with sign off and double sign off from another team member; assist in NC/CAPA investigations as required; ensure all paperwork is correctly filled out in a timely manner and audit to ensure right first time; own responsibility of line clearance for manufacturing/packaging as per SOP372.
• Staff development: Coaching staff and development of teams and to review progress; identify training needed for self and team.
• Continuous improvement: Support and guide team to ensure improvements are delivered; identify potential areas of improvement by reviewing the top 3 trends weekly with SM and identifying an action plan to improve; effectively measure changeovers to identify improvements (circa 20%); improve productivity trends by 10%.
• Behaviours: Lead by example; ensure the correct procedures are followed to set up, operate and clean down machines to ensure efficient running and minimal downtime; manage team members to achieve the greatest output and efficiency; ensure full adherence to 5S practices at all times; support colleagues to ensure team success.
• Communications: Monitor and accurately complete shift reports (H&S issues, daily performance, scrap, breakdown, quality issue) and report to management; prepare and conduct a comprehensive handover with the oncoming shift to eliminate unnecessary downtime between shifts; communicate shortage issues accurately and timely; deliver daily briefings to the team.

Experience required

• Previous experience within a similar role / ideally manufacturing background
• Previous knowledge of clean room environments (desirable)
• Working in the food/pharmaceutical industries for at least 2 years (desirable)

If you are interested in this role, please submit your CV for immediate response and further information.

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