Job Title: Machine Minder
Reporting To: Team Leader
Company: Flamingo Flowers
Location: Sandy
Shift A: Sunday to Wednesday week 1 Sunday to Tuesday week 2
Shift B: Wednesday to Saturday week 2 Thursday to Saturday week 1
Working hours 06:30-18:30
Pay rate : £13.83
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Job Purpose
To lead a small team responsible for setting up production lines, product quality, presentation, specification, packing efficiency and hygiene. To ensure that aims are achieved, and targets are met in a safe and efficient manner, whilst continuously improving systems, performance and operations.
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General Areas of Responsibility
Policy & Strategy
- · An understanding of the Health & Safety Act and its implications to you, your colleagues and the business as a whole.
- · Maintaining a safe working environment and follow safe working practices.
- · Adhering to the Company’s Hygiene standards as detailed in the Company Hand book and Quality manual.
- · To assist with the introduction and development of mechanisation and automation in this area.
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Principle Accountabilities
· Efficiency
- i. To action any production or quality issues which are affecting output.
- ii. Report any production or quality issue which you are unable to resolve to your Team Leader
- iii. To communicate and achieve daily targets.
- iv. Recommend areas for improvement within your team to achieve maximum efficiency
- v. Ensure lines are balanced to gain maximum efficiencies
- vi. Monitor line performance highlighting problem products to business departments
· Productivity
- i. Maximise line productivity through good organisation and motivation of your team.
- ii. Working with your team to achieve agreed targets.
- iii. Reduce all waste type (See Flamingo LEAN)
· Rework
- i. Minimise the level of rework through a Right First-Time approach.
- ii. Any product that doesn’t meet the correct specifications or is an over pack should be either re-worked or unpacked in the agreed time span.
· Product Quality
- i. To ensure all products are packed in line with the current product specification / quality contracts including; flower quality, Price labelling, packaging, hardware and box ends, or any agreed variance as instructed by the Team Leader
- ii. Be responsible for the line output, including bouquet length, spread, trim, head and stem level.
- iii. To report any quality concerns to the team leader or QA Team
- iv. To ensure all products are stored correctly during productive/non-productive times
- v. Ensure bouquet quality is to highest standard
- vi. Monitor waste and feedback to technical team on ongoing quality issues
· Administration
- i. To follow the label check procedure, ensuring correct label usage.
- ii. To enforce and implement the knife control policy.
- iii. To ensure you and other staff are wearing the correct work wear.
- iv. To follow, enforce and train all Standard operating procedures (SOP’s)/Safe Systems of Work (SSOW).
- v. To complete all paperwork, clearly and accurately
- vi. To ensure pre-start check sheets are completed where applicable
- vii. Complete line performance data in a timely and accurate manner
- viii. Assist with site audits including FPI, hygiene and H&S
· People
To support other key staff with the following
- i. To report disciplinary issues to your team leader or supervisor.
- ii. To assist colleagues in the development of the wider team to reach their full potential, through communication, coaching and identifying training needs.
· Flexibility and Attendance
- i. To support & work with other teams as and when required.
· Hygiene and Housekeeping
- ii. Ensure that the Hygiene of the line, including all the machinery & surrounding area is maintained at the highest level
- iii. Enforce site ‘clean as you go’ policy
· Health and Safety
- i. Take reasonable care for your own health & safety and that of others who may be affected by your actions.
- ii. Identify and communicate any areas of concern to your team and if necessary other key staff.
- iii. To ensure all health & safety policies are adhered to on and around your working area.
- iv. Ensure that you are briefed regarding health & safety issues & trained on relevant SSOW.
- v. To ensure any accident is reported & investigated following the procedure in place.
- vi. Report breaches of health & safety to your team leader/management team.
- vii. Report potential health & safety issues to the SHE Officer/ management team.
- viii. To keep all workspaces clean & tidy, by following Clean as You Go procedure.
- ix. Ensure all water spillages are cleared away immediately.
- x. The fire exists are always kept clear.
- xi. To ensure you are always wearing the correct PPE.
- xii. Make sure all pre-start checks are completed.
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Contact with others
Maintain a high level of communication with your Team Leader, your own team, other Line Leaders and QC Staff. Working together, ensure all the above points are met. ______________________________________________________________________________
Experience, Knowledge, Qualifications
Generic Competencies/Skills:
- - Work as part of a skilled team
- - Communicate effectively
- - Adopt a problem-solving approach
- - Be flexible and proactive
- - Good level of English
- - Good numerical skills
- - Good literacy skills
- - Good computer skills
Specific Competencies/Skills:
- - Effective running of machines reporting / recording faults and down time
- - Work with engineering team to prevent downtime reporting issues to them
- - Machines kept clean and in good working order, complete pre-start checks
- - End of shift clean down
- - Change overs are slick, efficient and prepared
- - Specifications are adhered to by using correct programs and date checking
- - Administration completed to high standard, on time and in full
- - Data systems are up to date and relevant giving clear information
- - Machine and production area prepared for commencement of each shift to minimise disruption to production and maximise efficiency
- - Ensure only trained staff permitted to use machinery
- - Line performance records completed manually and OEE
- - All documentation filled in accurately and in accordance with Quality procedures
- - Be responsible for area in AUL’s absence
- - Liaise with packing team to clarify requirements and relevant pre-start checks carried out and signed off
- - Report any follow up actions to AUL
- - Work with AUL to ensure supply of raw materials
- - Reduce raw material waste and record
- - Housekeeping standards meet good manufacturing practice
- - Work in a safe and responsible manner and abide by health and safety procedures
- - Provide cover as requested for Line Leader
Deputising Information
- In the absence of the Team Leader, the Machine Minder may take on some of their day to day activities. In the event of a serious issue or concern, they will revert to the Production Manager for support and guidance and/or the Senior Production Team.
- In the absence of the Machine Minder, another member of the Production Team will assume this lead role.
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Generic Responsibilities
Health & Safety: Employees must not endanger themselves, or others, by their acts or omissions. In addition, they must co-operate with their employers, as long as this co-operation does not lead to an increased risk to health and safety, or is an illegal act, so that the employer can comply with their statutory duties, thereby making the responsibility for safety a joint effort between employer and employee.
Food Safety: Employees must ensure they adhere to all procedures and policies relating to food safety in line with customer requirements.
Lean: Employees must ensure they endeavour to support the key lean initiatives relating to waste minimisation and continuous improvement.
Quality: Employees must ensure that they take a quality approach to fulfilling the requirements of their role and endeavour to get it right first time.
Ethical: Employees must ensure that they fulfil their job role in an ethical manner and that they adhere to the Company’s policies relating to ethical practices in their dealings with other employees.
Environmental: Employees must ensure that they are continually mindful of the Company’s environmental aims and that where possible whilst fulfilling their job role they minimise their personal impact upon the environment.
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This Job Description is not a definitive list of the responsibilities associated with this role and may therefore be added to and/or amended according to business needs, in line with the reasonable remit of capabilities you would expect to be associated with this type of position.
- Due to high levels of applicants we may not be able to reply to all applicants
Pay: From £13.83 per hour
Work Location: In person
