Intake Team Lead

Position Title: Intake Team Lead

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Grade: Scale NO GRADE 

Requisition ID: 42372 

Overall Purpose

The Potato receiving Team Leader plays a crucial role in manufacturing and supply chain environments, overseeing the procurement, quality, and smooth flow of raw materials necessary for efficient production. This position combines leadership, organizational, and technical skills to ensure operational effectiveness and compliance with company and industry standards.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

1. Lead a shift team of multi-skilled operatives to deliver production targets whilst ensuring that all safety, food safety and OEE targets and standards are met.
2. Work collaboratively with other Stake holders to ensure the effective running of the operation.
3. Work supportively with our colleagues to drive our continuous improvement through MDI:
   1. Lead team huddles.
   2. Support CID routes & Centreline management for your area.
   3. Conduct Safety and Food Safety Coaching conversations and audits.
   4. Support uptime by taking an active role in our defect handling process.
4. Respond pro-actively to hour-by-hour variance to plan “abnormality management”
5. To coach and support team members to achieve full multi-skilling of all operatives, through the creation of opportunities for up-skilling and training which support this
6. Undertake safety and food safety investigations as required
7. Manage the performance of team members, addressing areas for improvement and undertaking performance reviews in line with the annual performance cycle (P@M).
8. To ensure optimum staffing levels are achieved through the pro-active management of holidays and other absences.
9. Work with Team Leaders and Shift Managers to ensure that operatives are flexible and utilised across the department to support the whole team.
10. Manage day to day issues relating to your team, including absence, disciplinary matters and grievances in line with Company policy
11. Undertake project work at area, site, department or regional level, as required ensuring it is delivered to agreed standards and timescales.
12. Ensure that SOP’s and SWM’s are in place, that all colleagues are working to them and take responsibility for ensuring that opportunities for optimisation of working practices are implemented and documents updated to reflect them.
13. To ensure that daily and weekly cleaning schedules are completed in line with 5s, Health and Food Safety and Environmental standards

Person Specification

Experience

• Working in a manufacturing environment – Essential
• Leading a team of people – Essential
• Working within a food manufacturing operation – Desirable

Knowledge

• Understanding of continuous improvement - Essential
• Basic Food Hygiene - Essential
• Health and Safety Requirements within FMCG - Essential 
• Advanced Food Hygiene – Desirable
• Lean manufacturing principles- Desirable

Skills

• Leadership - Essential
• Customer focused - Essential
• Literacy and Numeracy- Essential
• Self and team Organisation and Prioritisation- Essential
• Influencing Skills – Essential
• Communication skills, written and verbal – Essential
• Cope effectively with pressure – Essential
• Deliver against targets and meet deadlines – Essential
• Coaching skills – Desirable
• PC skills – Essential

Key Stakeholders

Internal: Production Manager, Planners and schedulers, Agricultural team, Shift Manager, Technical Manager, HS&E Manager, Operatives

External: Auditors, Consumers,

WHAT HOURS WILL I WORK?

The role is primarily Monday to Friday dayshift, 40 hours per week You’ll be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together our small, but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain 
Department: ​Production ​
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne 

Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd