We’re looking for a confident and hands-on Production Line Leader to join IPS at our Saint Helens site. You’ll be at the heart of a fast-moving co-packing and manufacturing operation, helping to deliver outstanding performance for some of the UK’s best-known retailers and FMCG brands. If you thrive in a busy environment, enjoy motivating people, and take pride in hitting targets while maintaining high standards, this could be the ideal next step in your career.
This role works across a rotating 3-shift pattern: 6am–2pm, 2pm–10pm, and 10pm–6am. We’re also happy to speak with candidates who may only be available for 1 or 2 of these shift patterns, offering flexibility depending on your availability.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Set up the production line each shift, carrying out start-up checks and health and safety checks to ensure everything is ready to run smoothly.
- Lead, motivate, and support your team to consistently achieve production targets and maintain high performance standards.
- Train and guide colleagues on the line, helping to build capability and confidence across the team.
- Make sure finished products meet client specifications and quality expectations at all times.
- Monitor KPIs such as output, downtime, and waste, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce bottlenecks.
- Drive productivity on an hourly and daily basis to ensure production plans are delivered in full.
- Champion best practice across health, safety, hygiene, and quality standards.
- Keep paperwork and systems accurate and up to date in line with company procedures.
- Ensure all areas are audit-ready and compliant with internal and external hygiene standards.
Apply on company website Saint Helens, United Kingdom On-site Full-time GBP 29,000 – 34,500 / year
Culina Group is hiring a Production Line Leader
About company
We are a market leading ambient and chilled food & drink 3PL specialist, providing warehousing, distribution, contract packing and a bonded division with extensive expertise in relation to dutiable goods across the UK and Ireland. We have recently added both Fresh and Food Manufacturing divisions and are looking towards the future and the continuation of being one of the leading logistics companies within the UK.
Using modern IT infrastructure, including warehouse management systems, satellite tracking and client interfaces we are able to offer unrivalled customer support, ensuring that you always know where your products are. Online up to date data is always available through customer web portals allowing you to track your goods from anywhere, while a significant investment of over £2.5m in customer service infrastructure over the last five years ensures that we exceed customer expectations not just once or twice, but every single time.
Working hand in hand with some of the globe's leading brands and manufacturers is an everyday event at Culina Group, plus with a multitude of own-label producers and developing companies, all are catered for with an efficient and flexible infrastructure. Importantly, our strategic focus is on food & drink logistics within a shared-user environment, which is driven by volume and critical mass. This ultimately delivers an efficient and cost effective solution for clients of all sizes.
We are committed to future proofing our business by investing in teams, network, systems, sector and the environment, which will ensure we continue to provide clients with a robust supply chain platform which performs beyond expectations every day. The latest two service additions of Fresh and Food Manufacturing are testament to this ethos, ensuring that we continue to become a leading light within the logistics industry.