Job Description

Join our team!

Do you want to work for one of Scotland's leading food and drink companies, named Employer of the Year at the Excellence Awards 2024?

At Lazy Day Foods, we're passionate about creating delicious treats that meet the highest standards of safety, quality, and inclusivity. We're a market leader in allergen-safe, gluten-free, and vegan baked goods, and we're growing rapidly. We're currently seeking

Dayshift & Nightshift Production Team Leaders

to join our dedicated Operations Team and help ensure we always deliver on our promise to customers and consumers.

The role

As the Production Team Leader, it's your job to support to plan, coordinate, lead and control our production team and processes to make sure we are providing the tastiest, highest quality products at the right time, in optimum quantities, at the best cost. It's also your job to make sure that our processes and systems run reliably and efficiently, productivity is consistently improved, and waste is kept to an absolute minimum.

You'll be based on-site at our Bakery in Harthill, located between Edinburgh and Glasgow just off the M8.

Dayshift 6am - 4.40pm Monday - Thursday

Nightshift 6am - 4.40pm Monday - Thursday

We want you to:

Understand and be able to implement our food production processes from start to finish, ensuring that all schedules are met and that you and the team are resilient and can flex to changing priorities at the drop of a hat!

Be our enthusiastic first point of contact for any employee or management questions in relation to the Production function.

Track best practices across the business and maintain a breadth of knowledge about current trends, emerging issues and opportunities to advance our production processes, communicating findings regularly across the various departments.

Provide a complete answer in response to production queries and concerns on a day-to-day basis. Take accountability, acknowledge mistakes, issues, and delays, and provide all relevant information accurately.

Develop and report on Production's key performance indicators, noting trends, issues, and patterns that will help us celebrate our successes and resolve our challenges.

Bring a fresh perspective on how best we can support the Production Team and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Always communicate kindly and respectfully with all members of the team.

To succeed you'll need

To be passionate about bringing the Lazy Days smile to peoples' faces every day.

Great team spirit and the commitment to be a valued part of a high performing team.

To be a strong, independent, confident, and kind person with a great sense of humour and the ability to see things from others perspectives to get the best outcomes.

1-2 years of leadership and management experience and the ability to shape, create and implement innovative food production plans and continuous improvements.

An excellent understanding of food safety, security, and compliance, including allergen awareness, along with extensive knowledge of BRC Food Safety Standards, Customer Audit Standards and Standards of Ethical Trading.

Experience of coaching and facilitating performance improvement that enables your team to feel confident that they know what is expected of them and that you are there to support them.

Food production 'savviness', you'll need to understand and be able to explain our free-from production methods, processes and systems inside and out.

About Lazy Day Foods

Lazy Day Foods has a single mission - to create delectable treats for everyone to enjoy. That means all our gorgeous goodies are gluten-free, milk- and egg-free, and vegan. Our founders, Dr Sally Beattie and Emer Bustard, are both food scientists who know first-hand all about food allergy and intolerance; they also happen to love a really good slice of cake, and that's how Lazy Day was born.

Lazy Day Foods has grown organically from our founder's kitchens and farmer markets in 2006, to a dedicated 26,500 sq ft BRC AA+ accredited state of the art free from facility employing over one hundred people.

The Lazy Day brand is listed with seven major UK retailers (including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons), in addition to supplying wholesalers and the food service industry with our individual portion-sized packs.

Some of the benefits of working for Lazy Day Foods

This is an exciting opportunity if you love being part of a growing organisation that has the creation of the tastiest treats, products of the highest quality and the delight of our customers at the heart of everything we do. This job enables you to work in a small but perfectly formed and ever-growing team of highly skilled and committed people.

Competitive Salary

4 Day working week - 3 day weekend (Yay!)

Guaranteed holidays for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day

Employee Assistance Program for you and your immediate family

Flexible working

Company pension

Discounted products

Is this your dream job?

Sound interesting? Apply today!

We are a warm and friendly team, and we look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you soon!

To know more, take a look at our website www.lazydayfoods.com

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 27,476.00-30,284.00 per year

Experience:

Food Manufacturing: 1 year (preferred) team leader / supervisory: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:

Driving Licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person