Position Title: Team Leader
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Wombourne
Requisition ID: 33189
There's nothing beige about McCain…
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them. When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better. So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
As a Team Leader, you will work as part of a collaborative and supportive production management team leading activities to achieve personal, team and departmental targets whilst maintaining Company standards of safety, food safety & quality.
Key tasks of the role include, but are not limited to:
* Lead a small team of multi-skilled operatives to deliver production targets whilst ensuring that all safety, food safety and OEE targets and standards are met.
* Work collaboratively with other Team Leaders and Shift Managers to ensure the effective running of the operation.
* Work supportively with our colleagues to drive our continuous improvement through McCain Driving Impact (MDI):
o Lead shift huddles & handovers.
o Support CID routes & Centreline management for your area.
o Conduct Safety and Food Safety Coaching conversations and audits.
o Support uptime by taking an active role in our defect handling process.
* Respond pro-actively to hour-by-hour variance to plan “abnormality management”
* Ensure that hourly performance boards are updated, any issues highlighted with appropriate remedial action taken and present the data and update on actions during weekly meetings
* To coach and support team members to achieve full multi-skilling of all operatives, through the creation of opportunities for up-skilling and training which support this
* Undertake safety and food safety investigations as required
* Manage the performance of team members, addressing areas for improvement and undertaking performance reviews in line with the annual performance cycle (P@M).
* To ensure optimum staffing levels are achieved through the pro-active management of holidays and other absences.
* Work with Team Leaders and Shift Managers to ensure that operatives are flexible and utilised across the department to support the whole team.
* Manage day to day issues relating to your team, including absence, disciplinary matters and grievances in line with Company policy1Undertake project work at area, site, department or regional level, as required ensuring it is delivered to agreed standards and timescales.
* Ensure that SOP’s and SWM’s are in place, that all colleagues are working to them and take responsibility for ensuring that opportunities for optimisation of working practices are implemented and documents updated to reflect them.
* Work collaboratively with other Team Leaders to provide cover for holidays and absence and ensure appropriate communications and handovers take place.
* To ensure that daily and weekly cleaning schedules are completed in line with 5s, Health and Food Safety and Environmental standards
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR…
Experience
* Working in a manufacturing environment – Essential
* Leading a team of people – Desirable
* Working within a food manufacturing operation – Desirable
Knowledge
* Understanding of continuous improvement - Essential
* Basic Food Hygiene - Essential
* Health and Safety Requirements within FMCG - Essential
* Advanced Food Hygiene – Desirable
* Lean manufacturing principles- Desirable
Skills
* Leadership - Essential
* Customer focused - Essential
* Literacy and Numeracy- Essential
* Self and team Organisation and Prioritisation- Essential
* Influencing Skills – Essential
* Communication skills, written and verbal – Essential
* Cope effectively with pressure – Essential
* Deliver against targets and meet deadlines – Essential
* Coaching skills – Desirable
* PC skills – Essential
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great hourly rate and some pretty good benefits including:
* An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
* Optional health cash plan
* Cycle to work scheme
* Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an impressive 5 year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
WHAT HOURS WILL I WORK?
The shift pattern is 2 days 7am-7pm, 1 day off, 2 nights 7pm-7am followed by 3 days off.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK?
You’ll be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together, our small but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Department: PRODUCTION GROUP B
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd