Packing Supervisor

**Packing Supervisor**

**Location**:_Ultrapharm, Pontypool. _**

**Shift**:_4 on 4 off 9am-9pm _**

**Salary**:_£12.30_**

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Production Team as a 'Packing Supervisor’ at our Ultrapharm site as part of Finsbury Food Group. Ultrapharm is a dedicated Gluten Free bakery specialising in only Gluten Free products since 1993. The company’s unique approach to craft and baking creates premium gluten-free products with the flavour and taste of traditional bread. If you have special dietary needs or nutritional preferences, then our Pontypool bakery has you covered. Our products range from artisanal bread to our award-winning Hot cross buns and Mince pies for major retailers such as M&S and Waitrose.

You’ll play a key role in providing customers with Celiac Disease or special dietary requirements products that are safe to eat

As a supervisor you will work productively to lead and motivate the team to reach the plant production targets on a daily basis, whilst being vigilant and proactive with quality checks, you will ensure we meet our production targets whilst ensuring quality and safety in everything we do. At Ultrapharm we are passionate about investing in our teams, creating great progression opportunities.

As a supervisor you will have a good work ethic and will be able to communicate well at all levels understanding the intricacies of their area, taking ownership for hitting efficiency, Labour, Waste, and downtime targets. You will be able to communicate polity and openly to your team and your shift managers, to highlight any challenges, ask for support and give support. This role can be busy at times, which is why good organisational skills and the ability to hit deadlines are key to succeeding here.

**This is what you’ll actually do**

As a supervisor you will work as part of the team to support continuous improvement initiatives and help implement, drive, and embed the changes into the department to ensure the performance targets (KPI’s) and standards relevant to the area being worked in are achieved, including Waste Reduction, Standard Throughput, Yield maximisation, successfully pass internal and external audit standards, Hygiene Standards, Quality Standards and zero accidents.

***You’ll ensure that our baked goods are packed correctly, with all dates accurate on the packaging with the correct labelling. There are elements of your role which are physical as you will stack baskets onto pallets in a safe manner and make sure the pallet book is completed accurately. While ensuring Hygiene and Housekeeping practices are being carried out.

You will work in a safe and supportive environment, so we train all of our workers on Health and Safety best practices to ensure that you able to maintain high levels of best practice and these behaviours are adopted at all times.

Attention to detail and quality control is crucial and you are expected to monitor quality assurance at your designated area. You’ll ensure performance and product quality is maintained in your area by adherence to plant set up, technical specifications and quality assurance processes.

**Ideally this is you**
- Positive Communicator with team members and workers across site at all levels with the ability to communicate clearly and positively and has a naturally ability to get on well with people.
- Team-worker - a strong team worker and takes team working seriously, supporting other team members to achieve production performance standards and targets.
- Ownership - take full ownership of the work you are responsible for, complete it successfully with mínimal input and involvement from others.
- Respectful - have respect for others in a multicultural and diverse workforce.
- Honest - Do the right thing, own up if something has gone wrong. Stay true to your word.
- Good work ethic is essential in this role, as is reliability, enthusiasm, hardworking and commitment to the delivering excellent performance for the company.
- Pride - Take pride in work that results in producing high quality standards.
- Flexibility - be able to adapt to changing priorities, demands and plans as the business requires.

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this as our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here. As employee development is important to us and everyone is a valued member of the team, we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both their own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more