Logistics STO

Vacancy Name Logistics STO

Employment Type Secondment

Country United Kingdom

Location Wisbech

Business Area Operations

Workplace Type Onsite

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Role Description

In summary principal accountabilities are as set out below.

• Optimises equipment performance to meet and exceed key performance indicators in the areas of Safety, Food, Product & Process Safety, Quality, Yield, OEE, Cost, Right First Time and Service. Initiates corrective actions where required standards are not being met.
• Monitors compliance with CCPs always.
• Monitors and ensures correct disposal of waste.
• Audits and verifies area of responsibility ensuring we are doing what we say we are doing against our processes, policies, and compliance requirements.
• Ensuring the cleaning of lines to a set standard is achieved. Hygiene audits to be carried out on time.
• Records information on shift reports and performs effective detailed shift hand over/hygiene walk round – following a structured format.
• Daily tours of area – auditing all KPIs.
• Liaise with internal suppliers over material problems and reports on quality issues (e.g., raise a QNC)
• Checks, fault finds, and problem solves, seeing any actions through to completion. Raise work requesters, if required.
• Demonstrates understanding of complex problems and can identify and implement solutions to resolve using basic problem-solving tools.
• Always obtains required standards for area of responsibility – taking positive actions to correct if sub standard.
• Communicates effectively with key stakeholders, including team members, peers, line managers etc.
• Understands effects, takes appropriate actions of their area’s performance internally, and externally.
• Continuously and constructively challenges current ways.
• Identifies and acts upon opportunities for improvement.
• Shares with peer group best practice and key learning’s to ensure optimum performance across a shift system.
• Will be self-motivated, committed to all aspects of their role and require little supervision; teamwork is therefore essential for success within a fully integrated manufacturing team.
• Identifies teams training needs and address with peers.
• Leads / supports people processes as directed by Shift Coordinator i.e., absence management, investigation support.
• Enthuses and encourages others to work towards common goals and delivery of departmental objectives and KPI’s.
• Recognises own successes and areas for development.
• Prepares for own EDR and involved and supports delivery of operators EDR, giving constructive feedback.
• Ensures all SAP and MES transactions and reports are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensures operations engineering PMs are completed to the required frequency and standard.
• Leads, implements, and sustains new PMS standardisation methods, changing the way we operate in the department/site.
• Ensuring that training tasks are up to date from reviewing the training matrices, identifying, and putting in place training plans to cover any gaps in skills. Reviews and completes sign off for training documentation i.e., SOPs as required.
• Deputises for the Shift Coordinator due to holidays / sickness / training courses etc. and fulfil their duties and responsibilities of that role.
• Flexibility to be moved/trained across the site and to utilise skills in other departments.
  
  

These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the jobholder. Flexibility is required by the business & this will be agreed with the individual’s line manager

Role Requirements

Experience within a food-processing environment and understanding of hygiene standards is essential.

Competent numeracy/literacy skills

Demonstrable experience in driving continuous improvement.

Experience in managing/directing a team