Technical & Packing Operations Supervisor
Location: Darton, Barnsley
Department: Operations / Technical
Hours- 40 hours per week covering the day shift which is 6am-2pm 5 out of 7 days.
Salary-£33'623
Are you an experienced supervisor within food production or packing, with a strong understanding of food safety, quality and technical standards?
We’re looking for a Technical & Packing Operations Supervisor to join our team at Darton, taking responsibility for the safe, compliant and efficient running of our open product packing room.
This is a hands-on role combining operational leadership with technical responsibility. You’ll lead the day-to-day packing operation, support and develop your team, and ensure our products meet the highest standards of food safety, quality and legality.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading the packing operation: Planning daily production, allocating labour, coordinating line activities and ensuring packing targets are achieved.
- Food safety & quality: Maintaining high standards of hygiene, GMP, allergen management, traceability and contamination prevention within a controlled packing environment.
- Technical compliance: Overseeing labelling, coding, product checks, weight control, packaging integrity and product changeovers, ensuring all products meet the required specifications.
- Team leadership: Coaching and supporting colleagues, ensuring training is completed and addressing any performance or compliance issues.
- Driving performance: Monitoring output, waste, downtime and product giveaway, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce losses.
- Health & safety: Ensuring safe working practices, correct use of PPE, machinery checks and cleaning schedules are followed at all times.
- Problem-solving: Investigating non-conformances and process issues, implementing corrective actions and escalating any concerns around product safety, quality or legality.
You’ll also maintain accurate production and technical records, ensuring documentation is complete and ready for audit, while working closely with our wider Operations and Technical teams.
Requirements
What we’re looking for:
We’re looking for someone who can combine strong operational leadership with excellent attention to detail and a genuine commitment to food safety.
You’ll ideally have:
- Experience in a supervisory or team leadership role within food production, packing or a similar controlled environment.
- A strong working knowledge of food safety, hygiene, GMP, allergen management, traceability and labelling controls.
- The ability to plan workloads, lead a team and make sound decisions in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Experience working with production or warehouse management systems and Microsoft Office.
- Good communication and problem-solving skills, with the confidence to challenge non-compliant practices and escalate concerns when needed.
- A Level 3 Food Safety qualification, or a willingness to achieve this within an agreed period.
You’ll be organised, proactive and comfortable balancing production demands with the technical standards that keep our products and colleagues safe.
What you need to know: This role requires flexibility to meet operational needs, including shift working and working across ambient, chilled and frozen environments, potentially down to -20°C. Appropriate PPE will be provided.
When the packing room is not operational, you’ll also support the wider Technical or Operations teams in line with business requirements.
Benefits
What's in it for you:
- Free membership to Company Shop for you and 10 x nominees.
- 10% CSG colleague discount
- Doctor care Anywhere
- Annual Flu Injections, high street & leisure vouchers, and on-site Parking.
- Subsidised staff Canteen, Free Tea & Coffee, and Free Fruit Friday!
- Employee Assistance Programme – Grocery Aid.
- Eligible for Costco membership, Cycle 2 Work, Skoup skip hire, too good to go bags
- Medicash
- Simply Health Dental Plan
- Eye tests
- Contributory pension scheme with Life Assurance.
- Octopus EV Scheme
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Charitable giving
- PLUS Family friendly benefits.
Why join Company Shop Group?
At Company Shop Group, we’re passionate about making a difference by redistributing surplus food and household products, helping to reduce waste and making products more accessible to our members and communities.
You’ll be joining a business where operational performance, food safety and quality all play an important part in what we do.
If you have the experience, leadership skills and technical knowledge to help us keep our packing operation running safely and efficiently, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today to take the next step in your career with Company Shop Group.