Production Supervisor

**About the Company**

Bairds Malt Limited was formed in March 1999, when two existing companies, Hugh Baird & Sons Limited and Moray Firth Maltings plc, merged to form a new company. We currently operate four malting plants within the UK and produce malt primarily for the brewing and distilling industries. Approximately 10% of our malt is exported to customers around the world who want to use British malt in their brewing or distilling operations.

Our merchanting business, Scotgrain Agriculture Limited, procures malting barley for our own use and trades in barley, other grains, and related agricultural commodities.

Bairds Malt Limited is part of United Malt Group, which is an international, performance-driven malt supplier operating 18 strategically located malt production facilities in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. UMG is the world’s fourth largest commercial malt producer supplying malt to brewers and distillers around the world from the largest of multinational organizations to the smallest craft brewers. We celebrate our people and we work together to deliver on what we promise. We are focused on developing a skilled workforce and encouraging diversity of both people and thinking.

**Safety - Passion - Quality - Integrity**

**SUMMARY OF JOB**
- A key member of the production management team ensuring that barley intake, drying, storage and other intake operations are carried out effectively on the Witham site and that all administrative tasks are completed to the required standard.
- Understanding and supporting other departments as required, Processing (White and Roast products), Offtake and Water treatment.
- Providing cover for other members of the site management team to ensure that sufficient cover is in place at all times.
- Leading the Utilities Team and Barley weighbridge to maintain good standards of hygiene across the site and ensure intake procedures are followed.

**HOURS**:
5 days per week, 7.30am to 4.30pm with 1-hour unpaid break
On-call rota requirement, one week in four

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**DIRECT REPORTS**:
Utilities team (3 x permanent employees and any temporary workers)
Barley Weighbridge Operator (1 permanent employee and any temporary workers during harvest period)

**Utilities Team**
- Ensure the daily duties of direct reports are planned and organised in advance, and that operating instructions and responsibilities are clear to enable them to carry out their tasks effectively and safely
- Issuing permits and ensuring the cleaning work is started in a timely fashion each morning.
- Checking progress of cleaning works continually through the day.
- Ensure cleaning is being carried out in adherence with Risk Assessments and SSOW.
- Ensure the correct cleaning equipment and materials are available
- Ensure that cleaning schedules are maintained daily, and reviewed at least annually

**Barley weighbridge**
- Interpret intake data against contract specification and take appropriate allowances.
- Maintain laboratory equipment to a necessary operational standard and calibration status.
- Liaising with hauliers and merchants regarding claims when necessary.
- Sampling from external stores.

**Management**
- Ensure breaktimes and working hours are managed correctly
- Provide training as required for direct reports and ensure that full cover can be provided during periods of holiday and sickness absence
- Ensure that direct reports correctly use the clocking-in system.
- Carry out RTW interviews for direct reports
- Carry out one to one meetings with direct reports at the appropriate times each year (at least every 6 months) using the GPS Cornerstone system.

**General**
- Assist Management in the production of malt to meet customer expectations
- Support Management to ensure that customer quality and service requirements are achieved
- Support site compliance with safety, health, and environmental legislation to ensure issues are followed up and closed out and records are maintained.
- Support external and internal standards for food safety and product quality and ensure issues are followed up and closed out records are maintained
- Maintain AX, computer and manual production records
- Supervise temporary labour for the harvest period
- Prepare and be involved with customer site visits, audits and inspection of facilities as necessary
- Carry out other duties that may be reasonably requested from time to time
- Provide cover for the barley weighbridge
- Provide cover for the malt laboratory

In the absence of the other members of the production management team:

- Provide cover for aspects of the other members of the team to ensure that all tasks can be covered in their absence. This may include:
1. Acting as deputy on all Safety, Health and Environmental matters

2. Acting as deputy on all food safety matters

3. Overseeing malt quality from steeping through to delivery

4. Managing malt stock levels to meet programmed malt delivery commitments

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