Shift Supervisor

Hain Daniels are currently recruiting for a Shift Supervisor for Histon. In Histon, we manufacture a host of ambient sweetspreads and jellies for our grocery brands. These includes Hartley's jams and jellies, Gale's honey, Rose's and Robertsons marmalade's.

• Ensure that Products are manufactured by your team to required quality and cost as per the production plan


• Champion of H&S, Quality & Delivery


• Staff development is a priority to ensure succession where required, well trained, well motivated staff are developed and retained


• Passionate advocate of our products


• Role model for Hain Daniel Behaviours


• Review areas and make andimplement suggestionsas to how departmental performance can be improved to deliver higher quality and reduced cost


SECTION 3 - KEY ACCOUNTIBILITIES

% OF TIME

Safety, Quality, Hygiene

• Drive and support behavioural safety within shift teams


• Lead a "no acceptance" culture of H&S


• Provide training, instruction, guidance and advice to ensure the competence of employees, and ensure that allocated tasks are within their skills, knowledge and ability to perform safely to relevant SOP's



• Produce product to required specification.


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People Management

• Ensure that the appropriate numbers of trained staff are available to deliver the production plan.


• The role is shift-based responsible for managing the process and packing Line team


• Manage performance by objective setting, and review using the Hain Daniels Joint agreement process and development training as required


• Hold regular quarterly 1 to 1 's with the team to aid their development and provide coaching and support as required


• Manage staff via agreed company policies and procedures; ensure Site Discipline procedures are adhered to.


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Operations Management

• Ensure all safe systems at work are adhered to.


• Actively manage any issues that occur in your team area taking full responsibility and accountability of your action to ensure availability of materials, operators and functioning assets to deliver the required production demand.


• Ensure that changes to demand / product or ingredients within the programme are implemented and co-ordinated effectively with effective feedback to materials supplies and to customer departments.



• Manage the cleaning and maintenance of all production assets including building fabric to meet site GMP standards. This asset maintenance involves both operations and engineering.



• Work closely with the relevant Engineering Supervisor to ensure asset maintenance and breakdowns are effectively dealt with in an acceptable timescale


• Ensure all changes to plan as notified by Scheduling department are managed in the most time and cost effective way making certain that all relevant people are aware of the change



• Manage (or ensure) effective materials and ingredient control budget delivery


• Ensure relevant documentation is completed in a timely and accurate manner in their assigned process area.


30

Continuous Improvement

• Support / Implement continuous improvement activities within departments driving the Lean 6 sigma strategy.


• Involved in data gathering, ideation and submission of future CI projects.


• Support any uptime/downtime opportunities for value adding activities


15

Communication

• Conduct Weekly Team briefings to inform staff of Safety, Quality & Performance and any plans / action required by them to improve these areas


• Use team 1to 1's mentioned above to support and refine the communication process


• Hold effective shift hand over sessions and coach the short interval control meetings by managing by walking around and regular review of the process and facilitating action resolution.


• Follow the Glass / Allergen escalation policy if an appropriate incident occurs
  
  Education Level (i.e. Degree, Prof. Quals., etc)


• Demonstrable good standard of education


• Level 3 Food Safety In Manufacturing - desirable


• Relevant Safety qualification


• Computer literate


• Full UK Driving Licence


Years Experience (i.e. Relevant experience, Industry Experience, Management level experience, etc)

• 2 Years experience in a supervisory / management role in the Food Industry


• Ability to deliver work requirements in a timely and efficient manner


• Experience of working withunions


Key Capabilities and Characteristics (Interpersonal skills, specific competencies, specific skills, etc)


• Dynamic Decision Maker who is prepared to take responsibility for decisions


• Knowledge and understanding of GMP standards for major retailers and to BRC accredited standards


• Good Communicator


• Demonstrable People Management skills


• Ability to analyse problems / issues and come up with novel workable solutions to improve department performance
  
  The Hain Daniels Group is one of the UK's leading food companies. We create food and drink products with natural goodness at their core. We're the business behind a host of household brands - Hartley's jams and jellies, Sun-Pat peanut butters, New Covent Garden Soup Co., Linda McCartney's meat free food, and Yorkshire Provender to name a few. Nearly half of our business is private label - we create quality freshly prepared fruit and juices, desserts, soups, sweet spreads and meat free products for our retail partners.


Our Vision

To make it easier for everyone to lead a healthier, balanced lifestyle. Without our great team of people, this vision couldn't be our reality.

Top Talent across the UK

Over our sites up and down the UK, we employ circa 1,200 people in roles within Production, Supply Chain, Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and through to our Finance, HR, IT and beyond. Each of our colleagues is vital to our continued success. That's why we target the best talent, and help to develop them through the ranks. In fact, almost a third of our vacancies were internal promotions and transfers last year.

Our Business behaviours

As a business we strive to promote from within and our underlying business behaviours really enable us to drive this strategic objective. We believe we can provide an opportunity for all individuals to grow and achieve with Hain Daniels through demonstrating core behaviours such as ambition & energy, collaborative working, honest communication, innovation, delivering excellent quality, embracing versatility and equality

If Hain Daniels sounds like the company you'd like to contribute your energy and enthusiasm towards, and come on an exciting journey with us, then we can't wait to hear from you!