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Production Team Leader
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Production Team Leader
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 44750
About the Role
This is a shop floor Team Lead position within the Production team at our Wombourne plant. This role is a great opportunity to support in leading the area’s performance, efficiency and quality whilst working to deliver exceptional results in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
What you’ll be doing
- Managing and recording area deviations — identifying, reporting and resolving any non-conformances or issues that arise within your area during your shift.
- Working as a hands-on area leader rather than a traditional line manager — you will guide, support and coordinate colleagues within your area on a day-to-day basis, with formal reporting lines sitting with the Shift Manager.
- Playing an active role in driving shop floor performance and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Working as part of a wider shift team, reporting into and supporting your Shift Manager to ensure seamless production operations across the site.
What you’ll need to be successful
Essential
- Previous experience in a Team Leader or similar leadership role within a fast-paced manufacturing, production, or FMCG environment.
- Proven ability to lead, engage and develop a team.
- A solid understanding of health & safety responsibilities.
- Flexibility and commitment to work a rotating days and nights shift pattern (2 days on, 1 day off, 2 nights on, 3 days off).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and support colleagues at all levels.
- Right to work in the UK.
- Food Safety or HACCP awareness.
Desirable
- Experience working in a food manufacturing environment.
- Familiarity with MDI, Lean, 5S or other continuous improvement methodologies.
- A relevant leadership or management qualification (e.g., ILM Level 2/3 in Leadership & Management or equivalent).
Benefits
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods, you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. Alongside your salary, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:
- Private single healthcare.
- An excellent salary sacrifice pension scheme where we'll contribute double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your salary.
- 25 days' annual leave from day one plus bank holidays (increasing with service), giving you plenty of time to recharge with the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
- Life insurance cover providing peace of mind for you and your family.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, because the moments that matter outside of work matter to us too.
- Medicash health cash plan, helping you claim money back on everyday healthcare costs, with access to a virtual GP and wellbeing support.
- TELUS Health employee and family assistance programme offering full wellbeing support - including a 24/7 confidential counselling line, legal and financial guidance, and a range of employee discounts.
- Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.
- A paid 'Chips In' Volunteering Day, giving you the opportunity to support projects that make a positive impact in our communities.
- Flexible/hybrid working arrangements where the role allows.
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About the Team
You’ll be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together our small, but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds.
About McCain
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Leadership Principles
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
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At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
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