AddressWelcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.
We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.
ROLE PURPOSE: To be part of a team providing essential maintenance operations, whilst maintaining Health & Safety and Food Safety Standards, in order to provide maximum manufacturing efficiency at Forest Gate.
Key Accountabilities:
Key Activities/ Decision Areas
Customers
- Effective Communication within and outside team environment, carrying out team briefing and presentations where required
- Ensuring high standards of hygiene in despatch and surrounding areas, through the use of Clean as you go, liaison with Technical Services teams, or by using own team to accomplish tasks. Adherence to and improvement of hygiene schedules. Ensure total compliance with all applicable corporate and legal standards (personal safety, food safety, quality, hygiene and environment).
Strategy and Planning
- Control of Labour to meet budget / standard
- Holiday planning
- Staff recruitment
- Absence control (referral to high level Management in event of action required)
- Staff Performance (referral to high level Management in event of action required)
- Training of staff to be flexible between different disciplines and skill levels
- Team development
- Utilisation of labour across plants and functions to maximise efficiency and cost
Execution & implementation
- Ensuring all documentation is correctly completed and actions derived from recordings is executed. This may include the use of incident reporting
- Ensure the team are all trained to a good standard with cover for all areas in place & compliant to all appropriate procedures i.e. lock off procedure.
- Financial and Operational Control
- To adhere to company specifications and Targets.
- To monitor and take corrective action to maintain and in prove quality.
- To ensure all risk leading to customer dissatisfaction is eliminated.
- Manning levels budget or better
- Achieving capacity unit as targets set
- Life Long Customer Loyalty – Non Conformance/ Compliance to plant settings
- Cross functional planning
- To work as a member of the team with colleagues of similar status and responsibilities and across all departments
Key Outputs / Metrics
- Control of Labour to meet budget / standard
- Holiday planning
- Support Front Line Managers with Return to work Interviews
- Staff recruitment
- Absence control (referral to high level Management in event of action required)
- Staff Performance (referral to high level Management in event of action required)
- Training of staff to be flexible between different disciplines and skill levels
- Team development
- To work as a member of the team with colleagues of similar status and responsibilities and across all departments
- Utilisation of labour across plants and functions to maximise efficiency and cost
- Materials
- Controlling material usage and cost to ensure stock levels are appropriate.
- Minimise waste levels through correct stock rotation & good controls within the area.
OEE ( Overall effective efficiency)
- Maximise throughput
- Minimise waste
- To action any maintenance requirements by liaising with the engineering department and reporting through the works order procedure.
Quality
- Ensure total compliance with all applicable corporate and legal standards (personal safety, food safety, quality, hygiene and environment).
- To adhere to company specifications and Targets.
- To monitor and take corrective action to maintain and in prove quality.
- To ensure all risk leading to customer dissatisfaction is eliminated.
Essential role related knowledge, skills, qualifications and experience at selection
- Understands the production processes
- Team working & leadership
- Flexibility
- Ability to understand and learn new legislation, policies, procedures and processes
- Food Hygiene
- Team Leadership, People development
- Communication (written & verbal) & Team briefing skills
- Knowledge of relevant Statutory requirements
- Operates within operational excellence competencies
- Safety leadership training
- ALARP risk assessment training
Desirable
- Root Cause Analysis
Why work for us and our benefits:
At Hovis, we understand the importance of looking after our colleagues, so we provide a variety of benefits in addition to their salaries. The benefits we provide at Hovis are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries
There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.
Our benefits scheme is called Hovis Choice, which offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes our Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving
We offer competitive annual leave entitlement and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance
We celebrate loyalty with our generous long service and colleague recognition schemes
We offer three levels of pensions
Hovis values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.
