Team Leader

Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer are recruiting a Production Team Leader for our Milton Keynes (Northfield Drive) Site. You will play an important role in making sure some of the best-known drink’s brands in the UK are manufactured to the right quality and delivered on time to our many customers. Refresco is always changing, always innovating, always growing, creating endless opportunities for you to develop and grow your career with us in the future.

About the Role

you will report into the Production Manager and will be responsible for motivating and managing your own team to meet performance targets and the required Company Standards. You will be responsible for driving the performance of the Production and Packaging equipment and machinery to maximise OEE performance.

You will have the opportunity to participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives and Lean Manufacturing activities including leading short interval control and root cause analysis assessments.

As a Production Team Leader your main tasks and duties will be:

• Fulfilling the production plan requirements and always demonstrating an audit ready production environment.
• Auditing all monitoring systems required by the Company to ensure compliance with Company Policies/Procedures/Standards and identifying and implementing corrective actions.
• Managing non-conformance processes and corrective action activities to ensure compliance with Company Policies/Procedures/Standards.
• Lead effective handovers with oncoming Team Leads/Managers to provide an update on any safety, quality, people, delivery, or cost issues arisen during your shift.
• Ensure timely completion of Probation Reviews, Investigations/Disciplinary Processes, Return to Work Interviews and Absence Management meetings for your team.

See what it is like to be part of the Refresco Milton Keynes team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWQUT72RD1M

Salary and Benefits

You will be paid an hourly rate of £15.07 in addition to shift allowance, which as an annual salary is £35,414.26. Your shift pattern will be a 4 on 4 off pattern – 2 days, 2 nights and 4 off. 6am to 6pm & 6pm to 6am. In addition, you will have 2 x your annual base salary life assurance, a good company pension scheme, a sports and social fund and free on-site car parking.

We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid , a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical advice and counselling to people working in the grocery industry https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/ , and Perkbox , offering our employees discounts to many well-known brands https://www.perkbox.com/uk

About You

As a key member of the Production Leadership Team, you will be responsible for managing a small team whilst consistently demonstrating our Company Values and showing flexibility to support other teams/departments where required.

You will have operational experience gained within an FMCG environment with a good understanding of how equipment works and will have experience leading a small team and being responsible for developing others. You’ll be a natural leader with excellent coaching and influencing skills with the ability to motivate others and achieve outstanding results.

In order to successfully lead your team, you will be a confident communicator, well organised with the ability to keep calm under pressure making well thought out decisions.

You will have good IT skills with the ability to input data into in house systems (and / or SAP) and analyse this to provide meaningful data and reports for others e.g. downtime reports for the Production Manager. You will also be competent using the Microsoft Office suite of packages.

The Refresco Values are what has made us successful and will help us and you grow in the future. If you follow the Refresco Values, you can’t go wrong!

Find out more here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks but we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and have invested heavily to expand our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from nearly 80 manufacturing plants in 13 countries and we’re only just getting started…

Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing own label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets. We also manufacture many of the best-known branded drink’s such as Monster Energy, Innocent, Ocean Spray and Vimto. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and are on the customer tables for every occasion!

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.