Full job descriptionAbout The Role
Join Our Dynamic Production Team at Forza Foods!
We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a Supervisor - Low Risk to become a vital part of our onsite Production Team at our Protein facility in Normanton. If you are passionate about Production and eager to contribute to a dynamic team, this role is perfect for you!
Position Details:
Schedule: 4 on 2 off - 5:30am-10:30pm (Rotating Shifts)
Location: Forza Foods - Site Based role
Contract Type: Permanent
Your key responsibilities will include:
• To ensure that a safe working environment exists for the employees in the department and that as a minimum all areas/ lines meet the standards set out in the Site Safety Plan.
• The highest quality and food safety standards are embedded through the department and standards of hygiene and good housekeeping appropriate to the quality food manufacturer are maintained (GMP)
• Creates an environment where individuals feel able to continually challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement
• Utilise appropriate agreed production line KPI’s as a basis for the development of performance improvement plans within the department and cascade these KPI’s through the teams, ensuring that they are translated and used at all levels
• Plan, organise and measure resources to achieve or exceed expected performance results through the delivery and successful completion of the site appraisal procedure and set objectives
• Owns safety, training and development of all individuals in the department to enable progression to resource growth or to replace roles (Succession Planning).
• To maintain excellent communication through the different departments and functions, ensuring plans are adhered too and appropriate stock levels of packaging and raw materials are achieved
• Work with the department teams ensuring all shift rituals including safety are followed and self-audited
• Motivates, develops and empowers team members to achieve set targets and personal goals
• Encourages team work and develops good relationships with all factory areas
• To address under performance following company guide lines and procedures
• To ensure the department possesses to right number of people in the right area at the right time with the right skill set required
• Treats others with respect and provides support to team members when required
• Effective communication to the department team ensuring all relevant information is communicated and cascaded down to the appropriate levels
• Encourages the team to be open and honest, tell the truth and give straight answers
• To work within the company appraisal procedure to ensure constructive, clear feedback is given to the workforce individuals, supporting their performance and developmental needs
• Continuously seeks a better way/ does not accept the status quo
• Work with the planning function to ensure a smooth delivery of the daily schedule/ plan and raw material stocks including packaging are monitored and controlled
• Monitors performance of own and others for attaining targets and results. Knows, understands and drives line KPI’s while maintaining the highest professional manufacturing and quality standards
• Insists on the highest level of external and internal customer standards and focus
• Ensures accurate line staffing numbers and line run rates, challenging where necessary and recommending changes where required with the support of the line managers
What are we looking for?
• Commitment: Belief in own job or role and its value to the organisation, makes extra effort for the company, though it may not be in own self-interest. Has an excellent level of attendance and timekeeping
• Communication: Effectiveness of both oral and written expression in individual or group situations
• Decisiveness: The ability and willingness to make decisions and act on conclusions reached
• Delegation: Effective allocation of decision- making and other responsibilities
• Energy: The ability to create and maintain a level of appropriately directed activity, capacity to work hard, drive and stamina
• Initiative: Actively influencing events rather than passively accepting. Seize opportunities when they arise and act on them. Originates action
• Interpersonal Sensitivity: Awareness of other people and environment and own impact on these. Actions indicate a consideration for (but not necessarily sympathy with) the feelings and needs of others
• Leadership: The ability to motivate and manage people so as to achieve group objectives most effectively
• Management Control: An understanding of the need to maintain controls over set objectives and the discipline required to follow up on tasks initiated.
• Planning & Organisation: Effectiveness in establishing an appropriate course of action either for oneself or others to achieve an objective