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Section Leader
Bakkavor Meals - Abbeydale
We rise to challenges together.
Shift: Tuesday - Saturday, 07:00 - 16:00
Salary - Competitive depending on experience plus benefits (listed below)
40 hours per week


Why join us?
We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Section Leader. We will support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.
In return for your hard work and commitment, we’ll give you the development and support to take your career as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company


What we do.
In London, Bakkavor Meals employs over 2,400 people across three sites and a distribution centre in the Park Royal area. These sites specialise in making chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products and savoury accompaniments, and are part of Bakkavor's Meals sector which has eight factories in total in the UK.

About the role.

• To encourage a safe working environment for all employees in their area by supporting and enforcing standards as set out in the Group Health and Safety policy.
• Ensure team are performing to quality standards in terms of GMP, food safety, product quality and presentation and housekeeping.
• Manage performance and attendance of the team including first level formal written disciplinary action, performance review, absence management (including return to work procedures)
• Ensure that operatives are coached and trained in all aspects of their role, including health and safety and food safety standards and quality procedures.
• Participate in NPD processes and production trials where required to ensure that they run successfully
• Manage improvement activities including KPIs, waste management and production control processes and associated administration and record keeping.
• Ensure that their team are correctly deployed and are performing to standards in adherence to the plan. Manage breaks and the shift changeover process to ensure it does not disrupt productivity and workflow
• Ensure mechanisms are in place and supported to provide effective communication, upwards, downwards and sideways
• In conjunction with HR participate in staff recruitment processes and induction.
• Carry out necessary administrative tasks and produce data / reports as required including DWOR, T&A, holiday management and any other relevant data
  We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
• You will ideally have experience in a food manufacturing environment and be used to working at a fast pace.

About you.
The ideal successful will have;

• Experience in working in a Food Manufacturing environment
• Experience in working in a fast paced environment
• Experience in supervising / managing / leading / coaching teams and driving performance

What you’ll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.


You’ll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 23 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• My Bargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service)
• Free Carparking

Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!


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