Package Description
What you’ll receive
This is a role for those who take real pride in their work and enjoy working in a challenging but rewarding environment. When you start your career with Bigham’s you’ll receive:
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A competitive salary of £15.53 per hour
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Overtime payments
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28 days annual leave
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Quarterly bonus
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Healthcare Benefit
Main Responsibilities
Job Purpose:
- Leader tasked with delivering results that make significant contribution to department or project delivery
- Leader engaged with their team performance which is reflected in annual GPTW survey
- Leader able to work effectively in each of the Production kitchen roles; ensuring all food we make upholds Bigham’s brand values and sustains customer expectations of quality, whilst working to eliminate wastage, meet line throughput targets and meet legal, GMP and H&S requirements
Responsibilities:
- Safety of yourself and others – support safety and Good Manufacturing Practice
- Food Safety & Quality – delivering the Bigham’s standard and driving quality improvements, whilst maintaining a food safe working environment.
- Service level – ensure service level is delivered in excess of 99%
- Plan Attainment – ensure we deliver on our production plans & agreed sequences collaboratively
- Performance – continuously look to reduce wastage & improve operational performance
People
- Ensure new team members are effectively inducted & trained whilst ensuring new team members have a buddy within the team.
- Provide regular feedback to the team on their performance through daily / weekly briefings and ensure any feedback is acted upon.
- Conduct daily welfare check in’s with your team to ensure everyone is in the best condition to work.
- Ensure Team Members follow our policies, ensuring holiday requests, progress & probation reviews, training logs and RTW Interviews are performed on time & in an appropriate manner.
- Ensure people management systems are always accurate to ensure issues regarding pay are always avoided.
- Work with your Production Manager to ensure we are delivering on our GPTW plans and offering sufficient development opportunities to our teams.
Safety & Environment
- Lead by example when it comes to demonstrating the right safety behaviours and ensure that your team take responsibility for their own safety whilst working in a way that protects others.
- Ensure that H&S standards are maintained by completing H&S walks, near misses are raised correctly to prevent accidents and safety conversations are held daily.
- Work with your Production Manager to ensure that near misses have an immediate Root Cause Analysis completed through to a permanent resolution.
- Ensure waste is segregated effectively & that product losses through drains is eliminated.
Quality
- Ensure quality standards in your areas are maintained by your teams in accordance to all key cards. Key cards should always be readable & in good condition with key cards being replaced if they are not.
- Work with your Production Manager to ensure all major non-conformances have an immediate RCA completed through to a permanent resolution.
- Ensure that all activities comply to GMP & 5S standards, incorporating GMP walk rounds to ensure we all always achieve as high a score as possible.
- Where necessary, TAYGO is fully followed & teams are embowered to make difficult quality decisions.
- Working with your team & production managers, take action & close any non-conformances that are raised in your area.
Delivery & Operation Performance
- Deliver the daily plan, ensuring all batches are produced to the required sequence, cycle times / throughput, weights and efficiency.
- Deviation from the daily plan should be dealt with collaboratively with other team leaders, resulting in a solution that prevents future issues.
- Review performance through the shift & highlight any concerns with achieving standard to your Production Manager.
- Manage breaks & holiday requests to ensure effective running of your team.
- Manage product change overs as appropriate to standard, beating it where possible.
- Ensure job postings in your area are completed regularly & accurately, pro-actively communicating any issues.
- Ensure you have full understanding of materials variance daily, making sure that the stock reporters in your area are communicating variances pro-actively. Communicate any large variances to your Production Manager daily.
Continuous Improvement
- Carry out basic equipment checks & escalate to the Engineering team should any checks highlight potential issues or if any breakdowns occur. Any issues that should occur should be raised on CMS.
- Record downtime information, accurately accounting for any lost time.
- Actively engage in problem solving, identifying opportunities for improvement.
The Ideal Candidate
What you’ll need:
Attributes
- High level Safety and Quality focus
- Highly motivated
- Confident, determined and ambitious
- Excellent communication skills
- Work to the Bigham’s values of Respect, Daring, Collaboration, Goal Focused, Passion and Pride
Skills and knowledge required
- An excellent understanding of Health and Food Safety
- Food production experience
- Ability to work, engage and communicate effectively
- Good level of IT skills
- An understanding of Bigham’s products and processes
GENERAL
- Work within the company’s rules and policies, introducing procedures where appropriate in conjunction with technical documentation requirements
- Work with a dedication of delivering products to the market safely, with authenticity, legality & quality.
- Adhere to the health and safety policy of the company and work within its guidelines to ensure personal safety of staff at all times
