Job Description

Job description:

We’re recruiting … Lab Team leader

We are currently looking to recruit a Laboratory Team Leader to join our Manchester Dairy within our Muller Milk & Ingredients business.

The purpose of this role will be to support the team to deliver quality targets and continuously improve quality performance by coaching and developing our people.

Contract: Full Time Permanent

Shift Pattern: Monday – Friday

Location: Manchester - Trafford Park 

 Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Provides expertise through chemical & Microbiological technical knowhow
• Strong influencing and communication capability
• Uses leadership competencies to guide, motivate and develop team
• Acts as a coach and mentor for team and others across site
• Advanced Problem solving facilitation skills using various methodologies
• Role models and drives performance management systems
•  Responsible for laboratory budget, management, certification and other QMS duties
• Create purpose and direction around OGSM deliverables
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems
• Supports and process confirms operations quality control responsibilities
• Responsible for development of direct team

Muller Responsibilities:

• Drives CI opportunities through team
• Looks and encourages others to find “waste” opportunities in everything that we do
• Encourages others to seeks out improvement opportunities within the
• workplace and converts to own CI projects
• • Owns and delivers CI initiatives and is recognised for these
• Utilises all available opportunities, enabling others to improve the way we do things
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business
• Supports team to demonstrate CI contribution through PDP process

Demonstrable skills, experience and knowledge within the following:

• HACCP Awareness (Level 2-3)
• Basic Food Hygiene
• Microbiology and aseptic techniques
• Internal Audit
• Yellow and Green belt problem solving
• A3 problem solving
• Word and Excel
• Electronic Data Capture
• Eden Technologist
• Dairy Science
• Leading - Building relationships, growing capability and critically reflects
• Entrepreneurial Agility – Operating with discipline, showing commerciality as well as embracing and enabling change
• Strategic Thinking – Use technical knowledge to achieve results, encourage and facilitate sharing of best practice, think and act decisively.

Benefits 

Benefi

• A competitive salary, monthly paid
• Access an exclusive rewards platform including your Müller money, health and lifestyle benefits, Company pension, healthcare cash plan, dental insurance, home technology and cycle to work.
• 33 Days Holiday
• Have pride in what you achieve as a member of a team
• Be provided with a free corporate uniform
• Free onsite secured colleague car parking

Skills Required

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