Production Line Lead – Cooked Meats | Carnmore, Oranmore, Co. Galway | Full Time | €17.50–€18.00 per hour
Ready to take the lead on the production floor and make a real impact on quality, performance, and team success?
Our client is a long-established Irish food business with a strong reputation for quality, consistency, and craftsmanship. Cooked meats are a key strategic focus for the business, with significant investment in people, processes, and performance. This role plays a central part in driving shift performance and maintaining high standards across the operation.
The Role
This is a hands-on supervisory role with responsibility for leading shift operations across cooked meats production, from cooking through to packing. You will oversee daily performance, maintain high standards, and ensure production runs efficiently while keeping teams focused, motivated, and accountable.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead shift operations across all cooked meats processes, from cooking through to packing
- Manage staffing levels, line set-ups, and resources to meet production plans
- Conduct shift start-ups, toolbox talks, and end-of-shift handovers
- Monitor performance against KPIs for output, quality, safety, and efficiency
- Track yields, waste, downtime, and labour efficiency, ensuring accurate reporting
- Ensure compliance with HACCP, GMP, BRC, allergen controls, and site procedures
- Verify cooking and chilling controls, hygiene standards, and documentation accuracy
- Work closely with QA and Maintenance to resolve quality and equipment issues
- Promote a strong Health & Safety culture across the shift
- Drive continuous improvement in waste reduction, process flow, housekeeping, and team engagement
Requirements
Essential
- Proven experience supervising or leading teams within a food manufacturing or processing environment
- Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMP, BRC, traceability, and food safety controls
- Experience managing KPIs, including output, yields, waste, labour efficiency, and downtime
- Confident people leader with the ability to motivate, coach, and hold teams accountable
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot production and quality issues in real time
- High attention to detail, particularly regarding food safety documentation and controls
- Proactive approach to Health & Safety and compliance
- Calm, organised leadership style with a strong presence on the production floor
Desirable
- Experience with Lean and continuous improvement tools
What’s In It For You
- Stable Monday–Friday working pattern, 05:30–17:00
- Full-time contract, 42.5 hours per week, with flexibility required to complete production
- Two 30-minute breaks per shift
- Employer pension contribution through the Management Pension Scheme
- Training in Lean and continuous improvement tools
- Machinery and line training across cooked meats operations
- Ongoing development in food safety and leadership
- Opportunity to grow with the business as cooked meats become a core strategic focus
- Salary and performance review after six months
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