Production Assistant Team Leader – Night Shift in Trefriw

Production Assistant Team Leader – Night Shift

About us

We believe nature holds the key to our emotional and physical wellness, providing gentle yet effective remedies. At Nelsons, we harness these powerful ingredients and infuse them with centuries’ worth of expertise to offer traditional treatments for a modern world.

We’re an award winning, family-owned business, whose passion for providing natural healthcare choices since 1860 continues to drive us today. Nelsons is one of the UK’s leading and Europe’s longest established manufacturer of natural healthcare products, having built up an impressive portfolio including the world-famous RESCUE® Remedy, Spatone® and Teetha®

We have boots on the ground in the UK, Europe, and the US as well as a distribution network of over 70 countries globally and we’re not stopping there. Our phenomenal, international teams are collaborative, high achieving, and high energy.

The Role

Contract Details:

• Working Pattern 10pm to 6am-Monday-Friday
• 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
• Salary – £15.25 ph plus 30% shift enhancement
• Initial training will be alongside the day shifts and paid at the standard rate

The Role:

You will be working as part of a small production team in the production of Spatone products.

As acting team leader, you will assume responsibility for the management of the production team, ensuring the team continues to perform efficiently in the absence of the Team Leader and continue to always perform as a leader within the group.

You will work according to all necessary Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Hygiene and Health & Safety (H&S) requirements to ensure high quality products are produced in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) and regulatory requirements.

You will accurately complete all required documentation as specified in the relevant SOP’s and undertake routine preventative checks and cleaning of production equipment, utensils, and premises to ensure that the highest standards are maintained. You will also be responsible for delegating production and cleaning activities to team members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the production team, in the absence of team leader and delegate activities when and where required, and continue to support the Team Leader as a leader within the group at all other times
• Manage production team, to maintain production outputs, ensuring targets and quality standards are met, and all processes used are compliant, as per the SOP’s
• Maintain, and enhance working relationships within the team and across departments.
• Be responsible for absence and sickness management within the team and ensure adequate staffing levels on the shift
• Report and work with the site administrator, quality department and production manager when quality or H&S incidents occur to make sure these are covered off in an acceptable and timely manner.
• Ensure all activities are conducted in compliance with Good Manufacturing
• Practice (GMP) standards
• Complete and review all documentation in a timely manner and ensure accuracy is maintained in line with batch right first-time targets (BRFT)
• Drive a strong Health and Safety culture within the team and ensure all operations are conducted in accordance with Health and Safety regulations.
• Work and help lead team in accordance with the relevant SOP and Batch Production documentation
• To undertake and assist all training requirements as required to maintain GMP compliance, H&S adherence, and production efficiency
• Work with and develop production operators to develop their knowledge and skills base of the equipment and processes, in order to develop a well-trained highly efficient team.
• To ensure that the production area, utensils, and equipment are maintained to the required standard of operation and cleanliness and to maintain a high standard of overall housekeeping
• To lead and assist production equipment line changeovers
• To collaborate with the other team members and Team Leaders to ensure and improve production efficiency and maintenance of quality standards
• To comply with all relevant personal hygiene SOP requirements
• To undertake any other reasonable task requested by company management.
• To complete any end user inputs into ERP system
• To attend monthly team briefings and 1-1’s

We’d love you to have

• English and Maths to GCSE Grade C or above (or equivalent)
• Ability to work accurately, to have a keen eye for detail
• Experience working in a manufact