Area Team Leader
Cranswick Country Foods Poultry is a specialty producer of delicious, cooked poultry ingredients and is a leading innovator in the industry. We create exciting, original products that meet the needs of today’s busy consumers.
Purpose of the role - to consistently improve the departmental throughput and performance by facilitating all of the tasks relating to the successful organisation of the Packing and Despatch of chilled product department, including the labelling, boxing, palletising, despatch including samples, appropriate stock rotation of chilled product, auditing of all Despatch paperwork prior to submission to Technical.
The key elements of the role are:
- Liaise with the Department Manager to identify the correct levels of resources and manage the operation within these agreed parameters
- Where required, having identified the causes and consequences, change and adjust the production plan in co-operation with the Department Manager, Planning Department to ensure that the most efficient daily production is achieved
- Ensure product traceability is maintained at all times
- To ensure prestart checks conducted, including checking machine damage
- To guide and train new starters
- Ensure correct storage of the product in the area
- To supervise line operatives on a day-to-day basis ensuring that performance, product quality, GMP standards, discipline and safety standards are maintained
- To monitor and ensure correct recording and of downtime, packing area efficiencies, mispacks, overruns and all other packing area associated documentation
- Ensure all issues communicated to senior management in timely manner
- To ensure correct batch codes, use by dates and appropriate stock routines are followed and are appropriately recorded on the audit sheets
- Effectively communicates tasks and required standards to the team
- Ensures the team are adequately trained and that personal and technical skills are developed
Shift is- 4on 4off (5am to 5pm)