Section Leader

**Section Leader**

Salary: Competitive

Shift: Nights, 4 on 4 off 18.00 - 06.00

Business Area: Bakkavor Desserts

Location: Highbridge

Permanent, full time

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

**A**ccountabilities**
- Encouraging a safe working environment for all employees in your area by supporting and enforcing standards set out in the Group Health and Safety policy
- Ensuring team are performing to quality standards in terms of GMP, food safety, product quality / presentation and housekeeping
- Managing the performance of team members using Bakkavor performance management systems
- Actively coaching, developing, recruiting, and training team members - whilst encouraging continuous improvement within the business
- Participating in NPD processes and production trials where required to ensure they run successfully
- Managing improvement activities on processes such as KPIs, waste management and production control - whilst completing associated administration and record keeping
- Ensuring team are correctly deployed and are performing to standards in adherence to the plan - managing breaks and shift changeover process to ensure there is no disruption to productivity and workflow
- Ensuring mechanisms are in place and supported to provide effective communication at all levels
- Carrying out necessary administrative tasks and producing data / reports as required including DWOR, T&A and holiday management

**About you**

You will ideally have experience of a similar role in a food manufacturing environment and be used to working at a fast pace.

If you are a driven individual with a passion for service delivery and the ability to work calmly under pressure whilst motivating others towards achievement - this could be the role for you.

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