- Leading your section on all food safety, health & safety and quality standards adherence.
- Being the Section lead for customer visits and audits, ensuring effective planning, co-ordination and delivery.
- With direction from the Production Manager, implement continuous improvement initiatives across a range of areas.
- Carrying out line side SICs to filter information to the Production Manager for the shift SICs.
- Escalate shortfalls in resource, supply chain or asset reliability when required.
- Implementing processes and procedures to ensure the effective capture of data for further analysis by senior management.
- Ensuring consistency in the application of the company's policies and procedures.
- On request, deputise for the Area Production Manager.
- Experience of continuous improvement in a production environment of implementing change through effective management.
- Proven people management skills in a diverse and demanding environment with the ability to lead and motivate the team.
- Excellent time management skills, analytical skills.
- Avara Foods is one of the UK's largest food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the nation's most popular supermarkets and restaurants. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which include feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employ more than 7000 people. This is achieved by investing in people, utilising the latest technology and being uncompromising in our commitment to high quality and food standards.
- Private medical cover
- Life assurance
- Various lifestyle benefits, including wellbeing resources and shopping perks and discounts
Production Section Manager - Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom - Avara Foods Ltd
Description
Are you an experienced Section Manager with a proven track record in people management? Do you have experience working within a FMCG environment? Do you thrive working in a fast-paced manufacturing operation?As an inclusive, forward-thinking business, we take pride in our approach to Operations across Avara Foods and are looking for a highly competent and motivated Section Manager to join our Site Operations team, based at our advanced processing site in Telford, Shropshire.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of ever-growing advanced site, to help lead and motivate a skilled and diverse team and be an integral part of the site Production as we grow and develop.
As a Section Manager you will be accountable to the Production Manager for the operational output within your designated section to effectively manage all operations and ensure KPIs, targets and business objectives are met.
You will meet all requirements in terms of legislation & company policy, ensuring the safety of employees, equipment, infrastructure and products.
This is a predominately factory-based role, inside a large FMCG chilled and highly automated factory environment.Being responsible for the management and development of Team Leaders and colleagues within their zones.