Finsbury Food Group
Operations - Advanced Team Member
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Location: Ultrapharm, Pontypool
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Shift: 4 on 4 off days
We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Team Member to join our Manufacturing team at Ultrapharm.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll play a key part in keeping our production lines running safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. Working closely with the Manufacturing Advanced Team Leader, you'll support and guide your team, coordinate day-to-day line activities, and help deliver exceptional operational performance.
This is an exciting time to join the business as we continue to grow, invest in our people, and develop our manufacturing operation. If you're looking to build your leadership skills and take the next step in your manufacturing career, this role offers genuine opportunities for development and progression.
Finsbury Food Group is a leading specialty bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. Nicholas & Harris has over 180 years of heritage in craft baking methods. If you like artisanal, organic, and specialty breads, or have special dietary preferences, our bakery Nicholas & Harris bakery in Salisbury has you covered!
This is what you’ll actually do!
As an Advanced Team Member, you'll take responsibility for the day-to-day operation of your assigned production line, ensuring safety, quality, output, and compliance standards are achieved. You'll lead by example on the shop floor, supporting, coaching, and motivating team members while creating a positive, collaborative working environment.
- Monitor line performance, including run rates, downtime, and efficiency, taking prompt action to keep production on track.
- Support product changeovers, line set-up, and basic fault resolution, while ensuring all production, quality, and compliance records are completed accurately.
- Working closely with the Manufacturing Advanced Team Leader, help train and onboard new starters, provide guidance to agency colleagues, and support effective communication across the shift.
- Contribute to workforce flexibility by providing ASH (Absence, Sickness & Holiday) cover one level up and one level down when required.
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Maintaining the highest standards of Food Safety, Health & Safety, GMP, hygiene, and housekeeping will be a key part of your role. You'll identify and escalate any issues, hazards, or non-conformances, while supporting continuous improvement initiatives to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and standardize processes across the line.
Ideally this is you!
- Experience working across multiple production lines within a food manufacturing environment
- Previous experience leading or supporting small teams in a fast-paced manufacturing setting
- Strong understanding of Food Safety, GMP, HACCP, and quality standards
- Confident completing production documentation and compliance paperwork accurately
- Mechanically minded with the ability to support line set-up and basic fault finding
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office and operational systems
- Positive, approachable, and supportive leader who leads by example
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Reliable, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Committed to high standards of safety, quality, and operational performance
- Proactive with a continuous improvement mindset and willingness to learn new skills
- Flexible and willing to provide ASH cover to support the wider manufacturing team
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This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to take the next step in their manufacturing career, develop their leadership capability, and make a real impact within a growing business that invests in its people and their future.
What’s in it for you?
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – T&C’s dependent)
- Employee Recognition Awards
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
- An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!
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