Production Line Supervisor

Baxters Food Group

Production Line Supervisor

£25958

Baxters Food Group, Garmouth, Moray

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 3 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: f8b40aadb54e407592c9e71d99996a75

Full Job Description

Health and Safety -

  • To ensure Risk Assessments are kept up to date of any changes to process via the machine operators input or by completing risk assessments yourself where required.

  • To reduce accidents in my area by hazard identification and removal or reduction

  • To ensure staff are kept involved and encouraged to participate in the reporting of near misses as well as provided regular feedback.

  • To conduct regular health and safety walks of the process, including staff participation.


  • Quality -
  • To ensure all process documentation is adhered to correctly, completed fully and properly.

  • To promote a constant state of audit readiness thorough best practice GMP and clean as you go

  • To participate in on line auditing

  • To participate and encourage staff involvement in reducing customer complaints

  • To promote Right First Time, minimising quarantines


  • Cost -
  • To drive production to achieve and better planning rates

  • To work towards reducing waste

  • To monitor and minimise product give away through weight controls

  • To plan / organise, checking material availability and avoiding the production of unfinished bright product

  • To minimise overtime costs


  • People -
  • To create training plans for your leading hands, developing them to the best of their potential

  • To conduct regular monthly 1:1 reviews with all leading hands in your area

  • To create a working environment where people want to come to their work

  • To regularly review training plans and skills coverage, ensuring leading hands are progressing training plans, flexibility and skills coverage

  • To ensure leading hands are carrying out regular 1:1 sessions with staff within their area, 3 monthly as a minimum.


  • Continuous Improvement -
  • To coach and support leading hands in the daily huddles, encouraging staff participation

  • To propose and support methods of improvement including the formation of focus groups of specific issues

  • To assist in developing a continuous improvement mentality and not accepting "that's the way we've always done it" or "we done it that way last time". Always seeking to improve, Responsible to the Production Manager

  • Responsible for the team assigned to the production line or lines I am appointed to

  • To represent the production manager in his or her absence in meetings as delegated to by the production manager

    · Food Safety Level 3


  • · Internal exposure to operations finance

    · Internal exposure to Lab and Technical requirements and procedures

    · Internal exposure to waste management including the effluent process

    · Continuous Improvement Techniques,
  • Works well within a team

  • Ability to coach, develop and motivate staff

  • Attention to Detail

  • Adheres Strictly to Procedures

  • Reacts well under pressure

  • Ability to multi task / good time management


  • Results Orientated:
  • Ensures deviations are escalated speedily, thereby reducing potential quarantines

  • Drives to continually improve the current

    From £25,958.40 a year - Permanent, Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

  • Bereavement leave

  • Company events

  • Company pension

  • Cycle to work scheme

  • Discounted or free food

  • Employee discount

  • Free parking, Be flexible towards additional hours that may be required.

  • Be flexible towards changing shifts to cover your role fully

  • Be a reliable employee who the business can depend upon.


  • Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

    Pay: From £25,958.40 per year

    Benefits:
  • Bereavement leave

  • Company events

  • Company pension

  • Cycle to work scheme

  • Discounted or free food

  • Employee discount

  • Free parking

  • Health & wellbeing programme

  • Life insurance

  • On-site parking

  • Private medical insurance

  • Store discount