Group Team Leader

Job Advert Group Team Leader Join Our Team at The Compleat Food Group We’re excited to offer an excellent opportunity for a Group Team Leader to join our dedicated team in Market Drayton.

About The Compleat Food Group At The Compleat Food Group, we’re proud to be a food business built on purpose and passion.

Formed in 2021, we’re on a mission to create Food to Feel Good

• great quality, tasty and affordable food that people love to eat.

We’re home to some of the UK’s most exciting and loved food brands, including Wall’s Pastry, Pork Farms, Wrights, The Real Yorkshire Pudding Co., unearthed, Vadasz, Squeaky Bean, Palace Culture, and Harvey & Brockless.

Alongside our branded portfolio, we’re a leading supplier of delicious own-label pastry, sweet bakery, party food, olives and antipasti, added-value egg products, continental meats, dips and sauces and plant-based food to the UK’s major retailers, as well as across food service.

With over 6,000 talented colleagues across 17 sites, and an annual turnover of £1.3bn, we’re united by a shared ambition to shape the future of food for the better.

We are backed by European private equity firm PAI Partners.

Working Hours:

4 on 4 off: 6am
-6pm

Location:

Market Drayton Salary: up to £38,000 per annum DOE

Job Purpose:

The Group Team Leader will take ownership of leading a line, area, or team, driving performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people.

With a strong focus on hourly and daily results, you’ll play a key role in keeping operations running safely and efficiently.

Key Duties, Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
Safety, Health & Environment Ensures all team members are supplied with adequate PPE and that they wear it at all times. (E.g.

Hearing protection, gloves, masks) Can effectively deal with accidents.

Knows how to access first aiders and first aid facilities.

Investigates accidents and near misses.

Follows reporting procedures.

Ensures actions are implemented to prevent a recurrence.

Ensures pre start checks completed and any issues followed up.

Ensure that plant, machinery and equipment in use is safe, dangerous parts are guarded and properly fitted.

Ensures team are familiar with and follow site evacuation procedures.

Ensures fire doors and equipment are not blocked.

Ensures clean as you go is in place consistently to reduce the risk of slips and trips Food Safety & Quality Ensures team comply with factory dress code standards at all times.

Immediately deals with non conformances. (E.g. correct hair nets, jewellery removed, jackets buttoned correctly) Ensures prohibited items not being taken into factory (e.g. sweets, chewing gum, phones). Initiates pocket searches if required.

Ensures product produced is made to the SOP and meets customer specification.

Works in partnership with Quality team to improve quality standards and close out non conformances within timeframe given.

Ensures area constantly at audit standard and CAYG in place.

Ensures successful audits of own area, deals promptly with any non conformances Knows what HACCP is, implications in own area and ensures all appropriate controls and paperwork is in place.

Ensures paperwork is accurate, fully completed, delivered on time and enables full traceability.

Understands the legal implications of not doing this properly.

Ensures compliance with allergen and speciation control on changeovers.

Clearly understands the health risks to consumers and the recall implications. (e.g. product crossovers) Leading People Able to effectively train, coach and mentor team members.

Ensures training matrixes are up to date and all required training and refresher training completed.

Knows how to best motivate and retain each member of the team.

Keeps team members informed of what is going on in the team.

Delivers huddle in absence of manager.

Effectively manages time off requests balancing employee requests and business needs Instigates investigations when required.

Able to conduct a fair and balanced investigation.

Keeps report factual.

Able to conduct an effective disciplinary hearing and grievance hearing

• first stage Regularly reviews own performance in ensuring Ethical trading principles are embedded.

Demonstrates honesty…