About the Company:

Panelto Foods is an Irish Food company based in Longford and established in 2004. Panelto produces a range of high quality contemporary sandwich breads for the UK and Irish and food service markets, from a highly automated world class bakery. Panelto has recently experienced a successful major expansion, doubling the size of the existing factory and workforce. Due to this expansion we are looking for a Production Supervisor to lead a production team.

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About the Role:

We are looking for a Production Supervisor to manage the day to day running of the shift through a number of production operators, delivering an operation that excels across the bread production process and delivers a level of operating efficiency that is best in class. To ensure adherence to and a desire to strive beyond defined standards in the following areas, Quality, Health & Safety, Process Management, GMP, and People Management.

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Responsibilities and Objectives: ​​

• Evaluating, planning and implementing improvements in processes and practices on a daily basis.

• Provide leadership to all production staff especially on evening and night shift, where the most senior person in the operation could be the production shift supervisor.

• Taking an active part in day to day problem solving on the process and in more focussed process improvement projects.

• Being a leader in the Continuous Improvement ambitions of the operation and encouraging this continuous improvement culture with all staff on the shift.

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Personal Attributes: ​​

• Challenging in outlook to avoid adherence to the status quo.

• Excellent negotiation and presentation skills.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

• Analytical and insightful in looking at factory performance trends, with a proven track

• record of translating such insight into appropriate actions.

• An ability to work both independently with limited guidance, and to recognise the benefits of being a key member of the factory management team.

• Recognises the benefits of achieving objectives through the team and is able to role model appropriate behaviours.

• Managerially astute, reads situations well.

• Looks to lead a situation with a supervisor or employee to address key issues

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Technical Attributes: ​​

• Third level qualification in a food science / engineering or related discipline.

• Demonstrable experience in manufacturing management.

• Demonstrable experience in the area of people management.

• Some experience in continuous improvement and lean manufacturing.

• Some experience of scaling new products from development to full scale production.

• Ability to analyse market trends, develop market insights and create resulting business strategy.

• Demonstrated successful project planning and implementation.

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Remuneration: ​​

• Excellent salary and benefits package - negotiable.

 

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CV and Cover Letter submission should be sent to:

Martina Fitzpatrick, HR Manager, via email: mfitzpatrick@paneltofoods.ie