Production Team Leader

Posted on April 29th, 2026
location Hyde briefcase Temporary £18.58 per hour

Apply today to work as a Production Team Leader for our client site, which manufactures well-known meat and meat-free products.

Staffline is recruiting Production Team Leaders in Hyde.

The rate of pay is £18.58 per hour.

This is a part-time role working weekends, Saturday and Sunday, plus Bank Holidays. The hours of work are:
- 6am to 6pm

Your Time at Work

As a Production Team Leader, you will be responsible for:

- Leading and promoting a strong safety culture, ensuring risk assessments, safety checks, training, and "Go for Zero" behaviours are embedded in daily operations.
- Managing day-to-day production performance, delivering against safety, quality, cost, throughput, and people metrics in line with the master schedule.
- Building, coaching, and developing a high-performing team, including training, capability tracking, problem solving, performance management, and absence management.
- Drive continuous improvement
- Optimising labour, minimising waste, and improving OEE, ensuring efficient start-ups, changeovers, and effective shift handovers.
- Ensuring product quality is maintained, preventing poor quality from progressing to the next stage of the process.

Our Perfect Worker

Our perfect worker will have:

- People management and coaching skills - ability to lead, develop, motivate, and manage performance within a production team.
- Problem-solving and analytical capability - confident using data, root cause analysis, and structured problem-solving to improve performance.
- Health & Safety leadership - strong understanding of risk assessments, food safety, HACCP, and the ability to embed safe working practices in daily operations.

Experience in a similar role is required.

This is a food manufacturing site; candidates must be comfortable handling pork.

Key Information and Benefits

- Earn £18.58 per hour
- Weekends
- Temp to perm opportunity
- On-site support from Staffline
- Canteen on site
- Free car parking on site
- Good links to public transport
- PPE provided
- Full training provided

Job Ref: 1PHYD

About Staffline

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