Retail Line Leader – Redgrave
Salary: from £637.5 – £692.5 per week + dependent on experience/skills with further opportunities to increase pay as skills/experience develops.
Overtime paid at 1.333, before probation £16.9957, after completed probation – £18.4620 (paid for hours worked over 50 and Sunday/bank holidays)
Hours: 06:00am – 16:30pm, 50 hours per week
About the Role
- To maintain smooth and cost effective operations in your department
- To maintain the highest quality standards and to meet customers expectations regarding those standards
- To maximize yield and minimise waste
- To ensure your department conforms to current hygiene requirements
- To ensure your department conforms to current health and safety requirements
Main tasks and responsibilities
As Line Leader you will be expected to:
- Motivate and supervise team of operatives in order to achieve required production volumes at specified quality and minimum cost.
- Production efficiency monitoring with the use of SIC boards and KPI information
- Ensure hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintained, throughout your department.
- Monitor labour costs for all operational areas against standards and identify opportunities for improvement. Implement identified opportunities.
- Ensure consistent flow of production data for KPI reports and in conjunction with Production Manager
- Constantly review production methods and systems within the department, in order to improve efficiency
- Monitor waste levels and take appropriate measures to correct causes of waste
- Set up department machinery each day to maximise its effectiveness.
- Liaise with Personnel Manager/Training Officer in order to develop and deliver effective training programmes that will provide appropriate levels of multi-skilling and identify individuals who have the potential for advancement.
- In conjunction with the Technical Team and PC’s ensure that all production control procedures are maintained to the standards required by the company, customers and FSA
- Any other manual or management duties relating to food production as the company may reasonably require.
- Supervise the Health & Safety function and awareness in your department
Competencies
- Challenging if you see quality being compromised, whether on own line or others
- Coaching and nurturing
- Taking a risk
- Embracing change
- recognising the potential in others, giving opportunities,
- To take responsibility, to take ownership.
- To identify what is in your control and what options available and recommend a solution.
- Technical understanding of product specs and machinery, procedures,
- Organisation skills, forward planning and thinking, problem resolution, time management,
BENEFITS:
- FREE TRANSPORT from various areas in Suffolk/Norfolk
- Annual Xmas attendance based bonus
- Staff Discount shop
- Opportunities to further train and develop further (career progression) through our dedicated Company Training Manager
- FREE Private counselling support services
- Auto enrolment Pension
- Staff Discount “Wild Duck Canteen” serving hot food and tasty snacks
- FREE Staff and family events
- 28 days holiday + option to apply for one weeks unpaid holiday each year
- FREE Route medical health screening
- FREE access to mental health first aider and employee welfare manager support
- FREE English lessons
- FREE Freebie Fridays
- FREE Monthly Employee Draw – chance to win love to shop voucher
- FREE long service awards, starting at 10 year award, receiving up to £1000 tax free cash bonus when 25 years achieved
Reporting: Department Manager
If you are interested, please fill in an application form and send it back to the HR department at HR@gressinghamfoods.co.uk
