Team Leader, Production (SIDCUP)

Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!
Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

What you become part of:

Sidcup Operations plays a pivotal role within the CCEP network, producing around 50% of the GB SKU portfolio. The site offers a one stop shop to the GB Market with a range of packages that are single sourced from Sidcup, Across their 7 manufacturing lines the site can produce 480,000 cans per hour, 132,000 PET bottles per hour and 48,000 Glass bottles. There are currently around 270 employees across Manufacturing, QSE and Engineering, experience here can lead to excellent career opportunities both in Sidcup and further afield across other GB sites and Pan-European locations.

What to expect:

Shift management of your area in every aspect (operational: Warehouse management , MHE fleet management, raw materials yields and system integrity; QSE: Health and Safety and Food Safety compliance, Labour: attendance, support and training) to ensure it delivers the output required within efficiency, quality, costs and CRS targets, through a high level of engagement. Assuring a good transition in all aspects through the right communication with former and following Team Leaders.

Responsibilities include:

• Shift handover routines: receive and transfer all the information needed to run a smooth operations
• Labour attendance control and allocation of work at shift’s start. Labour planning changes communication
• Short Interval Control routines (SIC) to assure the operations are running on standard conditions and capture main on-going issues
• Support the team which is leading for daily reliefs and certain operational activities (Raw Material management, last minute changes, resolve issues, communication with other Cells/Areas)
• Confirm the Cell/Area routines and activities are executed (Shift resource schedule; Delivery schedule adherence; Material reconciliation verifications; MHE fleet management; Warehouse management; SOX compliance; Quality controls; Safety observations) and action plans are generated and executed
• Fulfil the shifts and daily reports for the Cell/Area and Plant routines
• Data driven and Continuous Improvement analysis of Performance, stock accuracy, system integrity, MHE pre use compliance, Quality issues
• Management of the labour resources available within the Cell/Area to optimize the area output based on the scheduled plan and inbound delivery schedule
• support of the Technical Trainer(s), plan, prepare and execute the training and succession plans for the (regular) team of the Cell/Area
• Finding the right balance between short-term (daily, weekly) & medium-term (monthly) focus and activities

Skills & Essentials:

• People management of an operational unit, within a unionised environment
• Operational management, preferably an experienced warehouse professional in a FMCG business including health & safety, raw materials/yield management, environmental and food factory quality standards
• SAP System knowledge of both EWM and ECC
• A knowledge of MHE equipment operationally including the management and controls

The closing date for applications is 28/4/26. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.