Despatch Shift Supervisor

Role overview
At The Compleat Food Group we’re on a mission to create tasting food that’s better for people and the planet, we call it ‘Food to
Feel Good’. We pride ourselves on being a business that gives equal emphasis to HOW we operate as well as the financial results we
achieve.
Our 3,500 (and growing) fantastic people are what make this possible. They are passionate about creating delicious products for UK
consumers, leading retailers and our exciting, market leading brands, which include Wall’s Pastry, Squeaky Bean and Unearthed.
We have a great opportunity for a Despatch Shift Supervisor to join our team at our Riverside Bakery Site in Nottingham.
This is a fantastic role for a natural leader! Your role will be to supervise the daily work of a designated team and ensure all
necessary resources are in place to maintain a safe and effective operation.
Job Purpose
The management of people, product, stakeholders and despatch controllables to successfully deliver/exceed our customer and teams
expectations.
The key requirements of the role are;
* Ensuring our team are operating safely and driving a safety culture.
* Quality is at the heart of everything we do – as a Shift leader you will set the standards and be an advocate of Quality on
Shift.
* Integrity – Integrity is what we do when others aren’t watching!
* Day to Day Management of a direct team of 10-14 team members.
* Delivering and exceeding Desptach KPI’s.
* Responsible for completing logistics processing on schedule
* Management of the team regarding preparation of Product for Departure to external storage.
* Utilising in-house computer systems for all aspects of inventory control – Lawson.
* Maintaining and updating inventory records – ability to work with others to problem solve and discover discrepancies.
* Management of Stock rotation - FIFO.
* Removing barriers to team performance
* Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
Key Accountabilities include;
Health and Safety – Ensuring that the team are working safely, any issues are escalated to the H&S team / engineering.
Management of stock through accurate booking in of all incoming goods into the Despatch Area from Wrapping.
Management and Control of Rejects from the factory into Staff Shop.
Management and Control of Product into the Blast Freezer / movement of stock into the freezers.
Shift Planning – Daily review of orders / picking / production schedule vs despatch times.
Lead the 8.30 Despatch / Recon Stock Meeting / Daily Objectives Meeting
Despatch Representative at the Daily KPI Meeting
Despatch Representative at the Daily Material Variance Meeting
Despatch Traceability Records
Supplier Compliance – Management of the team Despatching Product according to the customers requirements.
Equipment Management – Manage the team to ensure we have enough to meet customer demand.
Yard Management – Management of the FLT / Yardman
QA Compliance
Management of Team Members – Development / Scheduling
Drive Quality Standards