Job Description:
The Senior Line Leader role is designed to oversee and guide packing team towards achieving project and organizational goals with efficiency and coherence. This position involves a strategic blend of mentorship, project management, and operational oversight to ensure that team efforts align with broader company objectives. By fostering a collaborative environment, the Senior Line Leader ensures that each team member is engaged and contributing effectively, while also serving as a liaison between the team and line manager. This role requires a nuanced understanding of both the big-picture goals of the organization and the day-to-day challenges faced by the team, enabling the leader to make informed decisions that drive progress and improvement.
Essential Responsibilities
Senior Team Leader Responsibilities:
- Preparing work according to production schedule and assign workers production line tasks.
- Evaluating incoming orders and setting up the production line accordingly.
- Optimizing packing line efficiency by monitoring productivity and quality.
- Identifying and resolving production line problems in a timely manner.
- Training and supervising new packing line workers.
- Collaborating with other departments to ensure that orders are completed on time.
- Maintaining a fully operational, safe, and tidy work environment without being “told”.
- Ensuring compliance with company policies and industry regulations.
- Participating in SOP creation and review process.
- Complete a comprehensive shift report at the end of each shift, record accurately all downtime and inform line manager.
- Recognize high and low performance, and feedback to the line manager.
- Support the line manager on continuous improvement activities.
- Complete weekly stock checks for your department and flag low stock levels to your line manager.
- Excellent knowledge of D365, ability to complete tasks without supervision.
- Identify problems which may occur and take appropriate action to resolve the situation, updating managers or other departments as necessary.
- Ensuring housekeeping (clean as you go) and 5S system is strictly adhered to.
- Ensuring all team members are trained in all areas of the KR department.
- Monitoring, controlling, and minimizing waste. Feedback all issues as well as improvements suggestions.
- Undertaking such other duties as may be required from time to time, that reasonably fall within the scope and grade of the post e.g. Covering supervisor absence.
Sustainability Responsibility
- Ensure all duties carried out and actions completed in every aspect of your role, contribute to the short and long-term Sustainability Goals set-forth by the ELEMIS - Climate, Biodiversity & People Pillars
Qualifications & Characteristics
- Good level and standard of UK/European education or equivalent
- Clear and confident communication skills both written and verbal
- Experience in leading teams preferred
- Goos PC skills, especially MS Excel
- Strong planning and organizing skills
- Results oriented
- Ability to work well under pressure and achieve deadlines
- A flexible approach and a proactive attitude.