WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
This is a rare opportunity to work for a trusted household brand with a proud heritage and growing international presence. Our client is now seeking to recruit a confident production supervisor/teamlead who enjoys leading people, solving problems, driving standards, and delivering results in a fast-paced food production environment.
YOUR NEW JOB
You will be a critical member of the Operations team, responsible for ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production while leading and developing a high-performing team.
This role offers the opportunity to make a direct impact on operational performance, continuous improvement, and the success of a well-established and growing food manufacturing business.
- Lead day-to-day production activities to deliver production plans, output targets, quality standards, and operational KPIs.
- Coordinate staffing, workflow, and production schedules to maximise efficiency and minimise downtime.
- Identify opportunities to improve productivity, efficiency, and operational performance.
- Allocate work, set priorities, and ensure performance standards are consistently achieved.
- Support Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives and Encourage team participation in process improvement activities.
- Ensure safe working practices at all times and maintain strong safety focus at all times.
- Ensure compliance with all food safety, quality, hygiene, allergen control, and GMP requirements.
- Monitor product quality throughout the manufacturing process.
- Work closely with Quality teams to investigate and resolve quality issues
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
The ideal candidate is seeking a role where their innate leadership ability will be recognised and valued within a progressive manufacturing organisation.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a similar supervisory or management role within a medium to large manufacturing organisation.
- Hands-on leadership experience in a unionised, manufacturing environment, with a proven ability to promote positive employee relations and build high-performing teams.
- Experience implementing operational improvements, continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, quality, safety, and employee engagement.
- Knowledge and experience of BRC, FSSC 22000, ISO 9001, and product compliance requirements is an advantage.
- Ability to work independently and make sound decisions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, with strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience within a food manufacturing environment is desirable.
Full job spec available for interested candidates. This is a shift position and is one of a number of similar roles.
If you have an interest in this role please email a copy of your CV to audrey@matrixrecruitment. or call 051 511720 for an informal chat. INDMS
Candidates must be resident in Ireland. By applying, you are giving consent for Matrix Recruitment to contact you about this job. We collect your data for recruitment purposes only and will retain it for the duration required as outlined in our privacy policy. All CVs are kept confidential and will not be submitted to any clients without your knowledge and permission. Please note that due to the expected high volume of applications we can only reply to applicants suitable for the position.
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Work Location: In person
