Operations Team Leader - Oswestry

Arla Foods, Maesbury Road, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 8NL

Shift based role (3 on, 3 off: mixture of days and nights)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual Pay review
• Employer pension matched up to 6% (12% total contributory)
• X4 annual salary life assurance cover
• Flexible Benefits- buy up to 5 days annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.
• Strong career development & training (internal and external training)
• Subsidized staff canteen
• Access to discounted Arla products

Things we’d love to tell you about our Oswestry site

• Our Oswestry site is a best in class cheese packaging facility that cover 8 acres of land and package 350 different types of products.
• We send cheese out to Europe, North America, Africa & Asia
• Supplying branded products like Castello, BOB and Arla Pro, along with private label to Waitrose, M&S, Asda & Aldi
• If we lined up, side-by-side, all the 20kg blocks of cheese our Oswestry site process each year, we could plot the entire UK coastline
• We #feedthenation, producing and delivering 99.8% of our customer orders on time.

What will the role look like?

This is an exciting opportunity which reports into the Core Team Leader. As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for managing performance, safety, quality and cost savings. You will be delivering operational plans and setting day to day team objectives including delivery of the site business plan and resolving any day to day issues/escalation points.

You will be responsible for:

• Ensuring a safe, clean and good working environment utilising 5S principles
• Ensuring GMP standards are being implemented and monitored
• Assisting the team to achieve their own objectives including training through coaching, hands on support and organisation of resources
• Responsibility for resource utilisation and the management of all 17 direct reports including investigations and performance management
• Ensuring a cost efficient and stable production process with emphasis on SIC/KPI
• Working closely with M&E team leader to ensure full alignment on performance and to ensure that technical issues are resolved promptly
• Contributing to the development of current processes and ways of working
• Challenging processes and practices identifying opportunities for Continuous Improvement
• Implementing the department Business Plan including own objectives
• Conducting walking tours and process confirmation
• Enabling daily direction setting meeting (DDS) in order to drive performance
• Ensuring that your department complies with Arla’s standards in terms of Food Safety, H&S, Environment and carry’s out internal audits to ensure compliance.
• Responsibility for controlling any emergency issues/situations on site

Background/experience

We are seeking an Operations Team Leader with excellent people skills, high levels of enthusiasm and a positive attitude to implementing change and problem solving. The ideal candidate will have a basic understanding of food manufacturing/FMCG as well as experience managing large teams in a fast paced environment. Knowledge of Lean Principles (Six Sigma qualification) would be preferred. Previous experience within an FMCG or dairy industry would be advantageous but not essential as training will be provided.

Things We’d Love To Tell You About Arla

• We are a farmer- owned cooperative. That means we are committed to partnering with farmers so they are guaranteed a fair price for their milk.
• We experimented with poo powered trucks (google it- you won’t regret it), and built the world’s first ever 100% carbon neutral dairy. All as part of our ongoing commitment to combatting climate change.
• We are the producer of Lurpak, one of the world’s most iconic butter brands.
• We are a Danish business, operating across the UK, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, North America, South America and other regions across the globe.

Next steps

Please apply using the link or reach out to Olivia Pine (Junior Talent Partner) at olpyn@arlafoods.com. The closing date for this position is 16th June 2023.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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