Packing Supervisor

4 months ago


Okehampton, United Kingdom Forthglade Foods Full time

We are looking for a competent Packing Supervisor to join our team.

**Role Summary**:
To effectively manage the team with H&S and Quality your primary focus, achieve site

KPI targets and demonstrate continuous improvement in your area.

**Main duties & Responsibilities**:

- Lead, develop and motivate, building a team that operates self-sufficiently to consistently high standards across health, safety, quality, performance, and cost.
- Actively setting example of high-performance behaviour and challenging when team behaviours do not reach the same standard.
- Develop team through cross-training, mapping employees on key skills matrix to track development.
- Communicate effectively with team, and key stakeholders to improve departmental cooperation.
- Proactively championing continuous improvement and supporting energy saving projects identifying and delivering cost saving initiatives across a range of categories.
- Meet company production KPI’s, by effective management of the team, minimizing downtime and changeover.

**Person Specification**

Experience & Knowledge

Experience of managing a team. Working knowledge of a factory and food environment.

Good understanding of the Company goals and how the role of Supervisor contributes towards them. Specific knowledge within a given area of our manufacturing site and the ability to train/coach in this area of expertise.

Skills & Personal Attributes

Good numeracy and literacy. Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and work on own initiative where required. Ability to prioritise and manage own time effectively. Must be trustworthy, reliable, and punctual. Having a sense of responsibility for your own actions.

Hours of work are 0600-1400/1400-2200 hours Monday to Friday Rotating weekly_(Flexibility outside of these hours required to meet business demands)_

In return we can offer:

- Enhanced sickness/maternity and paternity payments depending on length of service
- Government Pension Scheme (including employer contributions)
- Death in service x 2 of annual wage
- First class training, fast moving environment & excellent prospects
- Company events
- Discounted dog food
- 25 days +Bank Holidays
- Free Parking
- Free tea/coffee and filtered water stations

**Salary**: £13.80 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Okehampton: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Warehouse experience: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person



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