Production Team Leaders - Harthill, United Kingdom - Lazy Day Foods Ltd

Lazy Day Foods Ltd

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Harthill, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to work for one of Scotland's leading food and drink companies, nominated for employer of the year 2023.

Due to continued growth, Lazy Day Foods are looking for competent inspirational Production Team Leaders to help lead our ever-expanding Food Production Team for our Backshift and Nightshift Operations.

Over the last few years our customers have been so delighted with our delicious products they keep coming back for more We have reached a stage where we need to provide additional leadership support to our highly skilled food production team to make sure we can cope with the demand

The role

As the Production Team Leader, it's your job to support to plan, coordinate, lead and control our production team and processes to make sure we are providing the tastiest, highest quality products at the right time, in optimum quantities, at the best cost.

It's also your job to make sure that our processes and systems run reliably and efficiently, productivity is consistently improved, and waste is kept to an absolute minimum.

We want you to:

Understand and be able to implement our food production processes from start to finish, ensuring that all schedules are met and that you and the team are resilient and can flex to changing priorities at the drop of a hat
Be our enthusiastic first point of contact for any employee or management questions in relation to the Production function.
Track best practices across the business and maintain a breadth of knowledge about current trends, emerging issues and opportunities to advance our production processes, communicating findings regularly across the various departments.
Provide a complete answer in response to production queries and concerns on a daytoday basis. Take accountability, acknowledge mistakes, issues, and delays, and provide all relevant information accurately.
Develop and report on Production's key performance indicators, noting trends, issues, and patterns that will help us celebrate our successes and resolve our challenges.
Bring a fresh perspective on how best we can support the Production Team and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Always communicate kindly and respectfully with all members of the team.

To succeed you'll need

To be passionate about bringing the Lazy Days smile to peoples' faces every day.
Great team spirit and the commitment to be a valued part of a high performing team.
To be a strong, independent, confident, and kind person with a great sense of humour and the ability to see things from others perspectives to get the best outcomes.
12 years of leadership and management experience and the ability to shape, create and implement innovative food production plans and continuous improvements.
An excellent understanding of food safety, security, and compliance, including allergen awareness, along with extensive knowledge of BRC Food Safety Standards, Customer Audit Standards and Standards of Ethical Trading.
Experience of coaching and facilitating performance improvement that enables your team to feel confident that they know what is expected of them and that you are there to support them.
Food production 'savviness', you'll need to understand and be able to explain our freefrom production methods, processes and systems inside and out.

About Lazy Day Foods
Lazy Day Foods has a single mission - to create delectable treats for everyone to enjoy. That means all our gorgeous goodies are gluten-free, milk
- and egg-free, and vegan. Our founders, Dr Sally Beattie and Emer Bustard, are both food scientists who know first-hand all about food allergy and intolerance; they also happen to love a really good slice of cake, and that's how Lazy Day was born.

Lazy Day Foods has grown organically from our founder's kitchens and farmer markets in 2006, to a dedicated 26,500 sq ft BRC AA+ accredited state of the art free from facility employing over one hundred people.

The Lazy Day brand is listed with seven major UK retailers (including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons), in addition to supplying wholesalers and the food service industry with our individual portion-sized packs.

We are very proud to be an award-winning bakery, having most recently been awarded the Food and Drink Business Award at the Lanarkshire Excellence Awards 2023 as well as winning Bakery Product of the Year with our Mini Vic Vegan Caterpillar at the Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards.

Some of the benefits of working for Lazy Day Foods

This is an exciting opportunity if you love being part of a growing organisation that has the creation of the tastiest treats, products of the highest quality and the delight of our customers at the heart of everything we do.

This job enables you to work in a small but perfectly formed and ever-growing team of highly skilled and committed people.

You'll be able to build your career in food production leadership, flex your expertise and grow