TEAM LEADER ADVANCED SWEETS
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** Team Leader Advanced Sweets**

** Competitve Salary + Bonus + Benefits**

* Location: Wiltshire-Trowbridge, UK |

* Contract type: Permanent (Full-Time) |

* Closing date: 4th March 2022

**Overview**

**The Role and Team**

**This position is working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 14:00-22:00.**

Your role as Team Leader within our Sweets Department will be delivering plan completion; controlling costs, ensuring that KPI targets are achieved, coming up with continuous improvement ideas and implementation. You will ensure that the department runs to its maximum efficiency with right first time quality productivity. The department is keen to promote excellent team work by employing people who have a positive (can do) attitude. By achieving this, the department is in the best position to produce products in an efficient manner. We aim to not only achieve our targets but improve on them as well.

**Who We Are**

**About apetito**

apetito is the UKs leading supplier of food to the health and social care sectors. Servicing over 400 hospitals, 450 care homes and thousands more through our work with Local Authorities, we produce delicious, nutritious and sustainable meals for people at home or in care. Through our food we look to ***make a real difference*** to all our customers, up and down the country.

**Our Values**

Established in 1958, as a family-owned business, our values sit at the very heart of what we do. We are proud to be a business that ***makes a real difference***, committed to producing ***great food to be proud of***. We have developed a range of products designed to ***enhance health and well-being*** for all our customers. We are proud supporters of British food and farming and focus on using the best ***ethical and sustainably*** sourced produce.

We are driven by a ***passion for service***, dedicated to feeding some of the UKs most vulnerable people, offering healthy and delicious meals to customers across the UK.

**Ethical & Sustainable**

As a business which operates within food manufacturing, we believe we have an obligation to make a positive contribution on society. With over 300 products in our range, we ensure our produce is ethically and sustainably sourced, working only with suppliers who share our commitment to making a positive impact.

Were a proud member of the (ETI), a leading alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs, that promote respect for workers rights globally. All our new suppliers now operate under the ETIs guidelines.

We are also a member of , an initiative looking to transform the plastic packaging industry in the UK. As part of the initiative, we have committed, along with other ambitious targets, to eliminate unnecessary single-use plastic completely by 2025.

We have also made a commitment to our employees were recognised as an accredited Living Wage employer by the . Joining an elite group of FTSE 100 companies and public sector organisations.

**Giving Back**

Here at apetito, we take our duty to give back to our local communities and chosen charities very seriously. In 2018, we raised over 30,000 for Alzheimers Support and Alzheimers Society alone, thanks to the incredible efforts of our employees and charity committee. We also support our communities through the apetito Staff Foundation, which gives financial support to the chosen charitable causes of our staff and their children. Since 2005, weve raised over 175,000 for these charities.

**Responsibilities**

* Ensure departmental hygiene standards are in-line with external audits and compliant with allergen production and product changeovers to prevent cross contamination.

* Knowledge of the areas CCPs and ensure 100% compliance.

* All Materials within your area to have full traceability details.

* Engage with QFSA during Hygiene + Housekeeping audits agree timescales for corrective actions and deliver on time.

* Proactively work with QFSA to ensure adoption of any changes to the BRC std that affect your area, to maintain AA status.

Health and Safety

* Report Near Misses and Safety events you see.

* Thorough accident reporting and investigation.

* Create a safety awareness culture e.g. through training.

* Actively participate in departmental risk assessments.

* Create S.O.Ps for the processs in your area, create training plan to ensure all relevant staff operate to agreed standard.

Hygiene

* Ensure all operators follow correct personal hygiene procedures (e.g. changing processes, hand washing procedures).

* Ensure all operators operate to a clean (and tidy) as you go policy.

* Undertake Intermediate Food Hygiene training: a pass level must be obtained.

Housekeeping

* Take an active role in implementing 5 S ethos.

* Actively promote continuous improvement in hygiene standards in particular on product change overs to avoid allergen and component cross contamination.

* Adopt a clean as you go policy

People

* Lead, motivate and develop a team of people

* Conduct One to Ones with all the team every 3 months

* Identify and facilitate ways for team members to develop and increase their contribution (training).

* Carry out return to work interviews

* Ensure adherence to rules & procedures, and standards

* Keep team members regularly informed of the teams performance/production target

Communication

* Actively encourage feedback from team with open and honest discussions on production targets

* Conduct daily reviews of performance with team in order to drive improvements, labour and material utilisation.

* Promote and work within the apetito Code of Conduct.

* Ensure communication is conducted with other departments when required in relation to issues in your area of work.

Other

Assist with NPD Trials when conducted in your area on your shift and report back to Shift manager how it went.

Support and be involved with Project teams working on improvements in the department. Scanning in all areas a focus going forward

Help the business be environmentally friendly:

- by ensuring that waste is segregated appropriately so it can be sent to the correct point of disposal/recycling

- by keeping waste to a minimum (e.g. making products right first time)

* Have a can do attitude; will try to learn other tasks in the department if required

* Promote good team work help others. Its not my job does not promote good team work

* Have a desire to help the team meet the department targets

* Undertake any training made available/organised

* Lead by example

**About you**

**Essential:**

* Good standards of English and Maths

* Basic computer skills in word and excel

**Desirable:**

* Level 3 Food Safety

* IOSH Managing Safety, Behavioral Safety

**Personal Qualities:**

* Positive can-do attitude.

* Lead by example.

* Proven understanding of written and verbal English.

* Be proactive.

* Motivate and develop a team of individuals to achieve and improve standards.

* Give clear direction, goals & objectives.

* Recognise and celebrate our fellow team members contributions and achievements.

* Take direct responsibility & be accountable for actions.

* Challenge poor performance or inappropriate behavior appropriately.

* Ensure team members understand their roles in achieving the vision.

* Give feedback to fellow team members & senior management.

* Undertake any training made available / organised

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