Production Line Leader
Pay Rate Shifts: between £13.60 to £14.47 per hour
Contract: Permanent
Location: Pontefract, WF8 3DD
Hours: 6:00am to 6:00pm, 38.5 Hours per week
Week 1: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Week 2: Wednesday and Thursday ONLY!
We are a family business established in Yorkshire in 1997 based in Darrington just outside of Pontefract with a reputation for exceptional product, innovation, and industry-leading animal welfare standards. Our facilities combine traditional British butchery technique with some of the best technological prowess in the food sector.
A committed team of over 700 staff oversee the whole process from procuring the best possible livestock from our carefully picked group of farms, through butchery, retail packaging and dispatch before it finally arrives on the supermarket shelf or as part of the restaurant dining experience.
About you:
* Previous experience within a line leader role.
* Able to work well as an individual or in a team.
* Work to a high standard to complete daily tasks.
What to expect:
* Ensure efficient daily running of allocated production line including set up, pre-operational checks and operation of machinery, in accordance with the production plan to ensure customer orders are met.
* Adopt a lean manufacturing approach to production to ensure maximum efficiency and yields are obtained.
* Ensure that all procedures are strictly adhered to.
* Ensure specifications are understood and adhered to so products are produced in line with customer specifications.
* Ensure associated traceability and verification paperwork is completed including secondary label verification and ranger checks.
* Understand and adhere to various primal labels, use by date and do not open before date (DNOB).
* Motivate, coach and develop staff to work within expected production standards; efficiencies, hygiene and waste. Furthermore ensuring that they are trained to the appropriate level in all areas of their role.
* Ensure line changeovers are efficient by ensuring that all packaging and raw materials are in place prior to the line being started.
* Proactively assist with arranging cover for holidays and sickness.
* Manage employee rest breaks to ensure continuity of production.
* Work in a way which minimises or eliminates food safety risks such as cross-contamination; store raw and finished product separately.
* Promote a continuous improvement culture throughout all areas of responsibility by delivering improvement projects, using lean tools and techniques such as: ‘SQPDC’, 5’s and TPM.
* Ensure that GMP standards are met, be proactive in identifying issues and providing solutions where possible and/or escalating to the relevant department.
* Ensure the completion of all relevant paperwork, updating of boards and input data into lean driver.
* Demonstrate and promote a positive Health and Safety culture and undertake required Health and Safety checks four times a day.
* Demonstrate and promote Environmental awareness by minimising use of resources.
* Ensure all workplace accidents and near-miss incidents are reported in line with company procedures.
* Ensure Return to Work Interviews have been completed by an authorised person before employees return to work on line.
* Ensure a professional image is maintained at all times.
* Maintain the HACCP system procedures in accordance with the quality assurance procedures.
* Ensure that hygiene standards are maintained at all times for the equipment and staff and ancillary areas, ensuring waste is placed in the designated areas and that all storage areas are kept clean and tidy.
* Keep all equipment in good working order.
* Ensure flexibility with working hours and responsibilities where needed to ensure customer orders are met.
Benefits:
* Free onsite parking.
* Staff shop, with products as low as £1.
* Onsite Gym open 24/7.
* Subsidised canteen.
* 3% Pension contribution.
* Cycle to Work scheme.
* Dovecote Rewards scheme where you’ll find discounts at over a 1000 Retailers.
* Yearly attendance bonus – (qualifying criteria).
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