Operations Team Lead

5 months ago


Ballymena, United Kingdom Pilgrim's Europe Full time

As a member of the operations team, the OTL will have full responsibility for managing production operations and staff within the area of responsibility to achieve the performance targets set by the Production Manager.

Shift Pattern:
Monday - Friday, 8am - 4:30pm

Duties/Responsibilities Include:

- Ensure a good start of shift, walk the line ensuring correct allocation of labour and materials are available.
- Conduct labour checks through visual confirmation counts of heads and correct location is on the line based on skills required.
- Ensure slick changeovers, making sure all materials/utensils and instructions are available before you need them on the line.
- Complete SIC boards hourly and huddle as needed with the team, acting if hourly target is not achieved.
- Ensure full optimisation: yield, ingredients, packaging material
- Ensure process parameters are in place i.e. time/speeds/giveaway/waste/QAS. Review routinely.
- Ensure CSL levels are met
- Escalate problems that mean deviation of plan to your Production Manager.
- Support your Production Manager in all areas to ensure Company objectives and KPIs are achieved.
- Check during runs - weight control, machine set up, quality spec, recording of production sheets etc.
- Manage a quality culture
- Participate and act to support Technical in delivery of Food Safety Index Target
- Engage with Technical and cross functional colleagues, where required follow up support actions are needed.
- Ensure timely reporting of maintenance issues to the maintenance team - minimising downtime.
- Ensure effective ‘hand over’ to the next shift, where applicable.
- Encourage team working cross functionally and take ownership of required day to day engagements with colleagues
- Any other duties commensurable with the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:
Essential

Desirable
- Excellent communication skills, ability to liaise with varying stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external.
- Self-motivated
- Problem Solving Skills
- Organisational skills and the ability to multi-task
- Good General Education - to include Maths & English at Grade C or above
- People Management Skills
- Proven leadership and management experience within a FMCG manufacturing environment.
- Food processing knowledge
- HACCP experience and/or qualification
- IOSH qualification
- Previous experience of achievement in continuous improvement
- Change agent: ability to demonstrate a previous experience of delivering sustainable change initiatives and results.
- 3rd Level qualification.

Pilgrim's Pride Limited is a division of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, our business is part of the second largest food company in the world, whose team farm, process, prepare, package and deliver fresh, frozen and value-added food products for sale in more than 100 countries.

We are proud to partner with more than 1,000 UK farmers who share our belief in the highest standards on animal welfare, efficiency, and quality. Our own farming operation is 100% RSPCA Higher Welfare, making us the largest producer of higher welfare pork globally, delivering 25% of pig meat to UK consumers.


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