Production Team Leader
Posted 17 hours 36 minutes ago by Cranleigh Scientific Ltd
Cranleigh STEM is recruiting a Production Team Leader for an established manufacturing business supplying specialist ingredients to the food and beverage industries.
This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for the day-to-day performance of a production team. You will manage between four and nine Production Technicians, ensuring manufacturing targets are achieved safely, efficiently and in line with quality and food-safety standards.
The position would suit an experienced Production Team Leader or Manufacturing Supervisor from a food, pharmaceutical or similarly regulated manufacturing environment. Experience overseeing manual or batch-based production processes would be particularly relevant.
Location: Barton Stacey, Hampshire
Salary: £. Competitive + Benefits
Hours: Monday to Friday, 07:30-16:00
Contract: Permanent, fully site-based
- Lead, support and develop a team of Production Technicians.
- Allocate labour and prioritise production activities to meet customer demand.
- Manage holidays, absence, overtime, performance and disciplinary matters.
- Ensure manufacturing activities comply with health, safety, quality and hygiene requirements.
- Maintain risk assessments, COSHH records and safe systems of work.
- Monitor production KPIs and lead actions to improve team performance.
- Support compliance with BRCGS, HACCP and Critical Control Point requirements.
- Lead complaint and non-conformance investigations using root-cause analysis.
- Maintain and improve SOPs and production documentation.
- Identify training needs and improve cross-skilling across the team.
- Lead continuous improvement activities, including 6S audits and departmental meetings.
- Work closely with Production, Quality, Engineering and other internal departments.
- Extensive experience within a manufacturing or production environment.
- Proven experience leading and developing a production team.
- Experience managing absence, conduct and employee performance.
- Good understanding of health and safety within manufacturing.
- IOSH Managing Safely qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of food safety or experience within another highly regulated industry.
- Demonstrable continuous improvement experience.
- Experience using KPIs to improve production performance.
- Technical understanding of production equipment and manufacturing processes.
- Experience using ERP systems.
- Strong planning, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with BRCGS, HACCP, World Class Manufacturing, Six Sigma or project management would be advantageous.
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
- Option to purchase five additional days' holiday.
- Employer pension contribution of up to 10%.
- Company bonus scheme.
- Life assurance at four times basic salary.
- Additional birthday leave.
The site is not accessible by public transport, so applicants will need their own reliable means of travel.