Manufacturing Team Leader

Team Leader Sweets department- PM shift

40 hours per week, 14:00 - 22:00 Monday to Friday.

Your role as Team Leader within our Sweets Department will be delivering plan completion; controlling costs, ensuring that KPI targets are achieved, coming up with continuous improvement ideas and implementation. You will ensure that the department runs to its maximum efficiency with right first time quality productivity. The department is keen to promote excellent team work by employing people who have a positive (can do) attitude. By achieving this, the department is in the best position to produce products in an efficient manner. We aim to not only achieve our targets but improve on them as well.

Your role will be to look after the Sweets Kitchen starting the process on making the mix's and cooking the products, The Production Lines throughout sweets ensuring the lines are getting the materials they need and dealing with escalations that arise. Taking ownership of the department and the wash-up ensuring it is always left in the best position it can be. Sweets Produce around 330,000 units a week of finished product but make around 500,000 units a week when you include all the WIP (work in progress) tasks which makes it unique within Apetio Trowbridge. You will manage a team of 15+ with the skill sets to achieve tasks, training and upskilling is a must for the team success. 

£17.10 per hour + shift allowance + bonus + benefits

Apetito is the UK's leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK's leading ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

• Lead, motivate, coach and support your team of people
• Minimise cost through adequate controls and training.
• Investigate reasons for poor efficiency and wastage.
• Work to agreed plan and highlight any issues
• In conjunction with material requirements and stocks adopt plan changes
• Planning ahead to ensure the team keep devaluation/wastage to a minimum in other areas and ensuring plan attainment.
• Flexible attitude towards covering for others and start times to suit the business.
• Ensure productivity target is met through optimisation of line speed and throughput; efficiency.
• To actively drive improvements in customer complaints performance by focusing on achieving product quality right first time.
• To ensure due diligence, CCP and traceability documentation is fully completed.
• Actively encourage employees to report product quality defects.
• Ensure departmental hygiene standards and all operators follow correct personal hygiene procedures 
• Ensure all operators operate to a clean (and tidy) as you go policy.
• Undertake ‘Intermediate Food Hygiene’ training: a pass level must be obtained.
• Complete regulation forms and paperwork
• Complete process orders.
• Maintain accurate information on downtime.
• Ensure hourly SIC is recorded correctly.
• Conduct job chats as required with team.
• Identify and facilitate ways for team members to develop and increase their contribution (training).
• Ensure adherence to rules & procedures, and standards
• Maintain the Sweets Pot schedule. 
• Ensure Scanning is being done correctly through the department. 

Essential:

• Good standards of English and Math’s
• Basic computer skills in word and excel
• Experience in using a WMS (warehouse Management System) such as SAP, QAD, AS400. 

Desirable:

• Level 3 Food Safety
• IOSH Managing Safety, Behavioral Safety

Personal Qualities:

• Positive can-do attitude.
• Lead by example.
• Proven understanding of written and verbal English.
• Be proactive.
• Motivate and develop a team of individuals to achieve and improve standards.
• Give clear direction, goals & objectives.
• Recognise and celebrate our fellow team members’ contributions and achievements.
• Take direct responsibility & be accountable for actions.
• Challenge poor performance or inappropriate behavior appropriately.
• Ensure team members understand their roles in achieving the vision.
• Give feedback to fellow team members & senior management.
• Undertake any training made available / organised

This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the skilled worker route as it does not meet the minimum requirements set out under the UK Immigration Rules.

• Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• Access to employee benefits including Perkbox with salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future.

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.