Job Description

Arla Foods Taw Valley Creamery, North Tawton, Devon, EX20 2DA

Shift based role (4 on, 4 off: 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.
• Subsidized staff canteen
• Access to discounted Arla products

Situated in West Devon, Taw Valley produces award winning cheeses for our retail customers.

What will the role look like?

Reporting into the Core Team Leader, you will be responsible for optimizing resources and managing performance, safety, quality and cost savings. You will be delivering operational plans and setting day to day objectives including delivery of the site business plan and resolving day to day issues/escalation points.

Other responsibilities include:

• Ensuring a healthy, inclusive and safe working environment and safety mindset
• Assisting the team to achieve their own objectives including training through coaching, hands on support and organisation of resources
• Responsible for KPI development including safety, quality, delivery, productivity & sustainability
• Ensuring a cost efficient and stable production process with emphasis on SIC/KPI
• 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

The ideal candidate will have;

• Extensive experience within people management
• Knowledge of Lean principles (Six Sigma qualification would be preferred but is not essential)
• Experience with manual data entry and data interpretation
• High levels of enthusiasm and a positive attitude to change & problem solving
• Management and production experience within a relevant sector (Experience in the Food Manufacturing or Dairy industry would be desired but not essential)
• Ability to work on a 12 hour shift pattern, including both days and nights

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.

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 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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