Advanced Team Lead (Quality)

Location

Lightbody's of Hamilton, Hamilton

Shift

4on 4off, 07:00 - 19:00

Salary

Competitive + Benefits

We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Team Lead to join our team at Lightbody’s of Hamilton, supporting the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient production across site.

135 years of craft baking skills lie behind the quality of the special branded cakes, sweet snacks, and slices we produce in Hamilton and 55 million products are produced each year. Lightbody’s is the UK’s largest supplier of celebration cakes to UK retailers, with Disney, Mars, Universal, and Thorntons all within the portfolio of branded cakes made under licence. We also make a variety of supermarkets’ well-loved own-label cakes and in-store bakery bites.

This is a key frontline leadership role where you will support the Manufacturing Shift Leads in driving team performance, developing capability, and ensuring KPIs are achieved across Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People. You will lead from the front, building a strong, engaged team culture that strives for manufacturing excellence.

This is an exciting time to join the business due to continued growth, new customers, and ongoing investment in automation and operational improvement. The environment is fast-paced, evolving, and offers genuine opportunity to make an impact.

This is what you’ll actually do!

• Take ownership of process adherence on shift, leading and supporting your team to deliver high-quality products safely, efficiently, and consistently.
• Lead by example, ensuring standards are maintained and behaviours always reflect company values and culture.
• Drive performance against KPIs, including waste reduction, throughput, yield, and quality.
• Motivate and engage your team to meet and exceed targets while ensuring strong operational discipline across all activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to reduce process variation, embed best practice, and improve Health, Safety, and Environmental performance, using tools such as A3 methodology and action teams to support structured improvement activity.
• Use Leader Standard Work to ensure daily and weekly routines are consistently followed and contribute to Short Interval Control meetings to help drive hourly and daily performance improvements.
• Maintain compliance with GMP, Food Safety, Health & Safety, and site standards, championing a ‘Clean as You Go’ and safety-first culture across the bakery.
• Ensure hazards and near misses are raised appropriately and support accident investigations where required.
• Review workforce planning requirements in line with labour budgets, ensuring optimum staffing levels while considering seasonal demand.
• Support production planning and effective changeovers to meet operational requirements.
• Oversee time and attendance monitoring and, with support from the Shift Lead, address performance or attendance issues in line with company processes.
• Monitor training for new starters, ensuring all development requirements are completed within required timeframes and supporting ongoing skills development and succession planning through the team skills matrix.
• Champion Health & Safety, Food Safety, and Quality standards across the site, while working flexibly to support changing production needs and ensure smooth and efficient operations.