Prepared Produce Team Leader

**Location: Boston | Hours of work: 40 hours per week | Days of work: Any 5 days from a possible 6, Sunday to Friday**

**About Pilgrim Foodservice**
We are an independent, agile, family-run business. Our people embrace and embody our family values of trust, integrity, respect and innovation. These values have helped us to build a proud history of forging loyal relationships with our customers. From our depot in Boston, we serve a diverse range of customers in 17 counties across the Eastern side of the UK. We offer more than 4000 products including butchery, fresh produce, grocery, chilled, frozen and non-food items.

We are ‘passionate about our people’, recognising that our teams, along with their drive and passion, are the reason for our continued success. This is your opportunity to join a forward-thinking, friendly, exciting business.

**What you will be doing**:
As a **Prepared Produce Team Leader**, alongside your key duties as a prep operative, you will be responsible for setting up and running a shift within the prep facility. You will ensure all paperwork and procedures are adhered to along with ensuring the team abide by food safety and health and safety guidelines. You will support the team in continuous training and development providing necessary training when required.

**Responsibilities will include**:

- Managing staff absence and ensuring cover is provided.
- Cover Prep Supervisor for the TMS authorisation when on holiday
- Must have excellent knowledge of how the prep facility runs, from machines in processing to knowing different product requirements
- Confident and can train new starters and trainee prep operatives in all areas
- Must have some knowledge of HACCP and how Qlik works for the order production process
- Must be able to look at forward orders and see if a special order or sample order have been put on the system,
- Ability to order and collect prep ingredients from main warehouse
- Keeping stock batch codes up to date
- FLT licence to operate facility
- Have the knowledge how to plan and prepare for the following day
- Organisation of a shift and allocation of roles for the day
- Monitoring team work, giving instruction and guidance to team members
- Strictly following the documented procedures at all the time
- Using machines to produce the products
- Carrying out safety checks on the machinery
- Dissemble and assemble production machinery for operation and cleaning
- Use of knifes for production of certain vegetables as trained
- Non-conformance reporting techniques
- Microbiological awareness - understanding of basic of food safety
- Knowledge how register and take micro swab samples.
- Adherence to the food safety and health and safety guidelines when preparing the products
- Bagging to correct weight, QC, vacuum packing, labelling and Metal detecting
- Collating of orders ready for delivery
- Cleaning down the facility at the end of each shift
- Completing of paperwork around collation area
- Reporting any damage or issue to the Prep Supervisor
- First Aid and Fire Marshall trained

**All we ask is that you have**:

- Excellent People Skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to listen and act accordingly
- Good communicator
- Good standard of English and Maths

**Here’s what you can look forward to**:

- **Family Security**:Death in Service benefit paying a minimum 2 years’ salary
- **Wellbeing Support**: Employee wellbeing support through GroceryAid & resources to improve your health
- **Exclusive Employee Discounts**: Discounts across our full product range
- **Christmas Loyalty Reward**: You'll receive 10% back from whatever you spend on our website to spend on your Christmas shop
- **Generous Time Off**:Above statutory holiday entitlement
- **Referral Bonus**: Refer a Friend bonus scheme
- **Cycle2Work scheme**: Saving you up to 47% on a new bike and accessories
- **Fitness & Lifestyle**: Discounted gym membership
- **Career Growth**:Opportunities for career progression

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Boston PE21 7SJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

- How many years food handling experience do you have?

**Experience**:

- Team Leader: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person