Senior Group Leader

3 days ago


Timaru, New Zealand Silver Fern Farms Full time

**About the Role**

The Senior Group Leader is a senior production leadership role and is responsible for whole shift delivery in the Internal Products department at our Pareora site. Critical to the effective operation of the entire department, the Senior Group Leader provides direction to their people, daily operations, health and safety, quality, and compliance. Strong leadership skills are imperative to the success of this role and we are looking for someone who has run a department with up to 40 direct reports.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Providing leadership direction to the department to achieve daily production targets whilst developing a positive team culture
- Review daily production performance, investigate and provide corrective actions with department leaders when required
- Build an uncompromising safety culture
- Champion continuous improvement and encourage team members to find new ideas to improve work practices

**About You**
- Minimum of two years’ experience in a senior production leadership role, ideally within the food manufacturing or FMCG industry
- Proven background in training, coaching and mentoring team members to increase the skill level in all areas of your department
- Successful experience with influencing others and proactively driving a strong culture that aligns with the Silver Fern Farms values - Unstoppable Together, Improving Tomorrow and Always Caring
- Knowledge of employee relations principles and confident with assisting your Team Leaders with workforce management
- Excellent knowledge of regulatory and hygiene compliance requirements and issues
- Competent to an intermediate/high level in Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Outlook

**Why work at Silver Fern Farms?**

Silver Fern Farms are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means, how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill & expertise of our Farmers and our customers around the globe. ‘Goodness’ is also about being good to people and communities, animal welfare, and showing care and respect for the environment.

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