Production Team Leader

**About Radnor Hills**

Radnor Hills is an award-winning leading soft drinks producer based in beautiful countryside at Heartsease in Knighton, Powys.

Established in 1990 by founder William Watkins, independent and family-owned, Radnor Hills produces over 400 million still, sparkling and flavoured water drinks every year.

Our brands include a full range of Radnor Hills spring water, Heartsease Farm, Radnor Splash, and our market-leading range of school-approved children’s drinks, Radnor Fizz.

Radnor’s diverse drinks portfolio is all made using exceptionally pure Welsh spring water sourced from our family farm’s land, just minutes from the production line for maximum freshness.

Environmental sustainability is a bedrock of our company. We have been a zero-to-landfill site since 2018 and have an on-site state-of-the-art recycling facility and an expert in-house team to facilitate this. Our environmental management system and site have been certified to ISO 14001 standards.

All of Radnor’s products are fully recyclable - our plastic bottles and shrink wraps are 100% recyclable and are also made up of 30% recycled material, our cartons are straw free, and our aluminium cans are infinitely recyclable and sourced only 65 miles from our farm in the heart of the Welsh countryside. In 2023, we opened new expanded production facilities, a quality assurance laboratory and a state-of-the-art office complex and invested £1.8 million in a new solar farm to help power our operations, which now delivers 25% of our electricity.

Radnor is a multi-format facility manufacturing glass, PET, cans and Tetra Pak all from one site. Our customers include all the major multiples as well as schools and independent retailers.

**The Role**

We are recruiting for a Production Team Leader to support the Production Shift Manager in the efficient running of the Production facility and ensuring the manufacturing of high-quality Radnor products and daily and weekly targets are achieved. The Production Team Leader will ensure that operations are conducted in a safe and sustainable manner, meeting customer demand while adhering to Company standards for quality, efficiency and profitability of the business.

**Duties will include**:

- Enforce Safe Work Practices: All team members must follow safety protocols, including wearing PPE and using equipment correctly.
- Monitor and Correct Unsafe Behaviour
- Accident Reporting and Investigation of all incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions should be reported and thoroughly investigated without delay.
- Positively promotes a culture ensuring good safe working practices in all areas.
- Positively promotes a collaborative food safety culture.
- Adherence to HACCP Protocols
- Actively takes part in weekly GMP audits & ensures actions are closed out.
- Review all ongoing quality checks and production records throughout each shift for compliance - Report issues immediately and correctly.
- Review all NC’s / product on hold to establish root cause and resolve
- Work alongside the Quality Assurance Manager daily, to develop a quality focused culture engaging the Production Operators on ownership and accountability.
- Instruction and training of operators on all aspects of GMP & policy changes
- Actively reviewing non-compliance issues & correcting through communication, instruction and training.
- Lead by example, encourage open communication across the team and promote continuous improvement.
- Day to day responsibility of production facilities to ensure production plans are achieved, communicating shortages or quality concerns promptly and escalating any issues as required to relevant parties.
- Work closely with the Engineering Team Leaders to agree priorities per shift and to drive continuous improvement activities.
- Develop and identify any updates to manufacturing procedures that are required.
- Deputise for the Production Shift Manager in their absence.
- Previous production/manufacturing experience.
- Understanding of QC systems.
- Supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated coaching skills.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Organised and assertive.
- Food industry knowledge - FMCG
- Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines and changing priorities.
- NVQ 2 in Supervision
- HACCP Level 2

**Hours and Location**:
This role is based at our main site in Knighton, Powys and you will be required to work 12 hour shifts on a continental shift pattern, rotating from days to nights after every two blocks.

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

Pay: £16.64 per hour

Application question(s):

- Are you able to reliably commute to Radnor Hills head offices in Heartsease, Knighton, Powys, LD7 1LU?

Work Location: In person