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Client:
Princes Limited
Location:
Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
9
Posted:
03.03.2025
Expiry Date:
17.04.2025
Job Description:
Vacancy Name: Area Coordinator
Employment Type: Fixed Term
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Wisbech
Business Area: Operations
Workplace Type: Onsite
About Princes: The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France, and Mauritius. Princes manufactures different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.
Role Description: The role is shift-based supporting a line team. Proactively manage the team to meet daily/weekly production plan demand. Particular emphasis is placed on the short- to medium-term strategy of enabling the factory to respond to the growth plans of all brands in the area of control. Raising culture and behavioural values to ensure the Teams are well placed to respond.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Ensuring operational flexibility is maintained with efficient utilisation of resources of the site support functions (Engineering, Logistics).
2. Ensuring the safety of our people and products.
3. Focusing on short to medium term week 1 to week 4.
4. Operating within a unionised environment where continuous improvement is essential in all areas to support the business needs and working towards “best in class”.
5. Building strong relationships with team members, peers and colleagues will be the key to the success of the role.
6. Ensuring the right values and behaviours are actively role modelled and encouraged.
7. Ensuring the supply chain strategy is embedded throughout the team and department.
8. Ensuring company and site processes and procedures are followed.
9. Manage budgets and assist in any capital expenditure projects. Encourage and develop a culture actively driving continuous improvement through engaging their teams across the full Site strategy.
Key Relationships:
1. Factory General Manager
2. Operations Manager
3. Department Manager
4. Engineering Function
5. H&S Advisory / Manager
6. HR Function
7. Technical Function
8. Site Accountant
9. Peers
10. Customer and Suppliers
11. Team Members
12. Contractors
Principal Responsibilities:
Health & Safety & Environment:
1. Ensure all staff are aware of the hazards in the workplace.
2. Ensure risk assessments and SOPs are available and in place.
3. Understand content of risk assessments sufficiently to monitor and ensure recommendations are being followed.
4. Immediately resolve all unsafe acts and conditions through to a safe conclusion.
5. Understand own and others health & safety responsibilities as laid down within the Princes Foods Health and Safety Responsibilities for Managers and Supervisors guidelines and other statutory acts and regulations.
6. Proactive involvement in Safety observation tours.
7. Carry out other Health and Safety audits / assessments in line with site schedule.
8. Encourage team members to submit near miss reports.
9. Ensure response to near misses and accident forms are acted upon against agreed timescales and managed through to completion.
10. Promote and support departmental FAST team.
11. Initiate accident / incident investigations immediately and manage through to completion with reasonably practicable timescales.
People Management & Development:
1. Complete effective appraisals (EDR / PDR) of team members.
2. Continuously monitor progress against set targets and give constructive feedback to team.
3. Carry out fair and impartial investigations (e.g. safety / disciplinary).
4. Conduct disciplinary notices according to site policy.
5. Manage attendance / absence to site policy.
6. Manage people through the agreed company policies and procedures.
7. Carry out return to work interviews for team on their first day of return.
8. Set targets and standards, regularly monitor progress, give and encourage constructive feedback from team members.
9. Train and develop the team (including new starters) via regular training, coaching, and mentoring.
10. Develop team training plan and measure performance against this.
11. Promote team working by encouraging involvement from all employees.
12. Prioritise holiday requests.
13. Use SAP to accurately manage working time.
14. Ensure labour is planned to meet production / logistic demands.
Production / Logistics:
1. Ensure authorised SOPs are available and used to achieve standardisation of tasks / activities.
2. Manage team to deliver KPIs. Ensuring they are understood and aligned to business objectives.
3. Minimise costs through efficient use of resources.
4. Control costs and overheads in line with budget.
5. Operate to the agreed manufacturing / logistic plan.
6. Ensure all the team understand and work to required Good Manufacturing Practices.
Continuous Improvement:
1. Lead continuous improvement teams and projects.
2. Track effectiveness of improvement projects and report on progress.
3. Support equipment and material trials and ensure all settings and procedures are documented.
4. Gather data and use it to identify opportunities for improvement and waste reduction.
5. Carry out root cause analysis of production / logistic issues.
Engineering:
1. Ensure breakdown improvement actions are implemented.
2. Work with engineering to deliver effective maintenance programme.
3. Ensure engineering resource within the team are deployed according to production / logistic requirements.
Quality Management:
1. Ensure that all team understand and work to required quality standards.
2. Ensure all paperwork is completed in accordance to site quality standards.
3. Promote and deliver a Right First Time mentality.
4. Complete audits against agreed site schedule.
5. Assigned quality actions are managed through to completion.
6. Participate and actively encourage others to attend taste panels.
7. Alongside Technical, ensure site is compliant against customer and accreditation assessments.
8. Ensure operation and functionality of CCPs are maintained and report any issues / concerns to Technical.
Communication:
1. Attend agreed monthly, weekly, daily meetings at all levels with appropriate preparation.
2. Build strong effective working relationships to work closely with colleagues within and across other functions.
3. Produce performance reports against plan / KPIs as required by the site management.
4. Deliver engaging team briefings to team members.
5. Carry out effective shift handovers.
Role Requirements:
Knowledge:
Effective Communication
Working with Others
Leading Self & Others
Delivering Results through others
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Planning & Organising
Cost Reduction Initiatives
Skills:
IT literate.
Management and Leadership Skills.
Communication Skills.
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