Production Bottling Supervisor

Department/Section: Production

Salary range: £21,500 - £24,500 (Depending on experience)

Place of work: Tonbridge

Business unit: Atom Brands

Reporting to: Production Shift Manager

Shifts: 8am - 4.30pm 

About us

Atom Brands is the product development and manufacturing business unit within Atom Group which also includes Maverick Drinks (UK distribution) and Master of Malt (global online retail). Our brands include Ableforth’s (Bathtub Gin), That Boutique-y Whisky Co, That Boutique-y Gin Co, The Blended Whisky Co, Origin Single Botanical Gin, The Handmade Cocktail Co, 1897 Quinine Gin and Darkness!

In the last 5 years, our brands have won dozens of global awards (World’s Best - Blended Whisky, Blended Malt, Grain Whisky, Liqueur, Gin, Spiced Rum & Pre-mixed Cocktail - many on multiple occasions) regularly triumphing in blind tastings against some of the world’s largest and longest-established products from businesses three orders of magnitude larger than ours. This speaks to our no-compromise approach to creation and crafting. We make the best - we don’t work backwards from price-points or seek to ‘fill gaps’.


Job purpose

Complete production forecast orders against set specifications and KPI’s whilst reporting on shift activity, health and safety management and HMRC compliance requirements.

Essentials of the job

  • Support the Production shift manager by managing the shift activity of a small to medium number of permanent and temporary staff members to ensure that work is being completed to the expected high standards required whilst meeting all set KPI’s
  • Monitor time-keeping and breaks, raising any issues to the Production management team
  • Manage reports daily of the activities that have been completed, and provide an overview of any issues around staffing, materials or equipment
  • Assist with staff shift allocation and any accompanying issues in the absence of members of the Bottling Team through holiday or sickness
  • Ensure that health and safety, quality and HMRC standards and requirements are implemented and upheld within your area
  • Support the Production management team to ensure that the relevant efficiency requirements are met for your area, and in continuously evaluating and improving our production efficiency
  • Lead by example in supporting the company to keep our facilities and equipment safe and in good order in line with our policies

Experience, skills and qualifications 

  • Solid, proven experience within a supervisory or team leader position in a production warehouse environment
  • Some experience of full people management, including the recruitment and training of staff, would be an advantage
  • Knowledge and understanding of health and safety - and product safety - in a production environment, ideally along with experience in supporting the implementation of health and safety initiatives
  • Experience of working within the drinks industry would be preferable, ideally with some knowledge of the company’s own products and lines
  • Ability to evaluate and offer suggestions for improvements to relevant processes
  • Good logical, analytical and lateral thinking skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to be clear and concise and to use simple language where it’s needed
  • Understanding and appreciation of cultural differences, along with the ability to build rapport quickly with people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds
  • Good knowledge of IT, including Word, Excel and ideally also of Google Suite of apps

About you

  • A people person, with a great instinct for people management and a strong sense of fairness
  • Keen personal interest in spirits
  • Great team player alongside the willingness to support the management team
  • Passionate about supporting the growth and development of a modern, efficient production function
  • Energetic, intelligent, reliable, unflappable
  • Willing to adapt to changing priorities
  • Quick learner
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Customer service focused
  • Driven and committed to meet daily targets

Why work for us?

Other than the standard benefits you expect to see from a business (think pension, cycle-2-work scheme, free eye care vouchers, childcare vouchers) we also offer…

  • Flexible working - We’re focussed on productivity, not the clock. We’ll work with you to make sure you’re happy with how and when you work.
  • Free food - A hungry worker is not a happy worker. We stock our kitchens with what you need to get you through the day. 
  • Free fancy coffee - George Clooney endorsed, no less...
  • A relaxed working environment - There are no suits and ties here (unless you insist). 
  • A challenge - The opportunity to make a difference to the future of the business. It is our people who put us in the 2017 Sunday Times Fast Track 100.
  • Personal Days - Seven completely flexible personal days on top of your annual leave, because we all need a duvet day from time to time.
  • A healthy staff discount on our world-class range. Just in case that makes a difference.
  • (Un)healthy irreverence - National pizza/doughnut/pie/lemonade/etc day? We got it covered. 

If you think you have what it takes to be our next Production Bottling Supervisor send us your CV today! 

 

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