Team Leader - Chipping Norton, United Kingdom - AB Agri

AB Agri

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Chipping Norton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role & Key Responsibilities:

Job Title:
Production Team Leader**
Location:Enstone, Oxfordshire, UK

Contract Type / Shift:
Permanent / **12-hour days / 12-hour nights - 3 weeks rotating.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Production Team Leader to lead our mill production team in the efficient operation of plant, equipment, and processes from raw material intake to outloading.

You will ensure feed safety, maximize process efficiency, provide service, maintain feed consistency, and ensure a safe working environment within a best-cost framework.

Role Objectives & Responsibilities:

To lead and supervise the daily operations to ensure compliance with site & company procedures.
Monitor the production process to ensure optimum throughput.
Manage the performance of all shift staff daily.
Identifying and allocating tasks to staff throughout the shifts required
Supporting the continuous improvement program and creating a culture of engagement across the team
Communicating with other functions to ensure customer expectations are met.
Identifying plant problems/issues and liaising with the maintenance team for prompt resolution
Assisting in completing stock takes and investigating variances.
Maintaining mill hygiene standards and meeting internal and external audit requirements
Supporting the maintenance of HACCP systems to company standards
Monitor KPI's, budgets, costs, and performance assessments for the mill.
Evaluate internal employee survey scores.
Assessing continuous improvement though the Personal Development Plan
Reviewing monthly QA results for feed analysis
Addressing customer complaints

About you:

Experience in a supervisory or people management role (essential)
Previous knowledge / experience of working within a manufacturing environment (essential)
Familiarity with process control computer systems (essential)
Effective communication skills (essential)
Lean management / CI experience (essential)
Basic Maintenance skills (essential)
Performant Managements Skills (essential)
Experience of working in an agricultural and/or animal feed industry (desirable)

About The Company:

Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.

From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

What we can offer you

A competitive salary with annual review.
Incentive bonus for everyone
Matched employer pension contribution up to 10%.
Enhanced benefit for holiday, family, carer, adoption and parental leave.
Employee Assistance Programme.
AB Agri benefits portal offering discounts and vouchers at 100s of retailers.
Discounts available on ABF sister company products.
A company passionate about training, development and creating a truly inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.
A wide range of flexible, optin benefits including dental, private medical and personal travel insurance using salary sacrifice.

About us
ABN is the UK's number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We're part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we're passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.

What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that's because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we're building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

Application Notes

Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don't accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them