Lead Operator - Logistic Nights

Lead Operator - Nights Team (Isleport, Somerset)

This role will be 4 nights on 4 nights off working 20:00 to 8:00.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a commitment to Health & Safety by working in a safe manner, role modeling our safety behaviours, challenging unsafe practices, rectifying unsafe conditions and escalating to other team members when support is needed.
• Lead the active involvement of the team in all Health & Safety aspects of their work to support the ongoing improvement to safety practices.
• Escalate any food safety breach or quality issue and ensure any product below our standards is identified, held, and the issues are escalated, resolved and released.
• Understand, lead and maintain good manufacturing practices and company standards of hygiene, PPE, and dress code.
• Role model a "Clean as You Go" approach, leading workplace organisation and visual management standards with the team.
• Facilitate Short Interval Control Reviews, establishing actions and owners for ongoing improvements and coordinating tasks and resources to optimise the operation.
• Analyse and interpret asset performance to identify opportunities and initiate necessary support to drive improvements to performance and raw material yields.
• Actively involve in change over optimisation with the team, identifying opportunities for resource coordination that improve asset utilisation.
• Communicate and share performance data, ensuring team awareness of how their role contributes to the success of the shift, site and business.
• Maintain accurate and timely recording of downtime and raw material usage across the area in support of focused improvement initiatives.
• Undertake basic fault finding and rectification on equipment and support identification of root cause when escalating to the wider support team.
• Energise the team and demonstrate a consistently enthusiastic approach, taking action quickly and encouraging others to do the same.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Leadership of a team of up to 30 people.
• Stock control processes & inventory control.
• Knowledge of WMS and MS Office applications.
• Good communication skills at all levels.
• Able to work to deadlines under pressure.
• Knowledge of KPI delivery.

Desirable:

• MHE experience.
• IOSH Managing Safely qualification.
• First Aid at Work.
• Food safety qualification/experience.

Benefits

• Competitive holiday allowance
• Non contributory pension scheme
• Life cover
• Healthcare cash back plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• Preferential rates with partners
• Learning and development opportunities; committed to ensuring all employees have the chance to grow

We are not able to provide employment sponsorship at this moment in time.