Manufacturing Team Leader

Company: apetito UK

Location: Trowbridge

Posted: May 6th, 2026

Team Leader Sweets Department – PM Shift

40 hours per week, 1400 – 2200 Monday to Friday.

Your role as Team Leader within our Sweets Department will be delivering plan completion; controlling costs, ensuring that KPI targets are achieved, and coming up with continuous improvement ideas and implementation. You will ensure that the department runs to its maximum efficiency with right first‑time quality productivity. The department is keen to promote excellent teamwork by employing people who have a positive (can‑do) attitude. By achieving this, the department is in the best position to produce products in an efficient manner. We aim to not only achieve our targets but improve on them as well.

Your role will be to look after the Sweets Kitchen starting the process on making the mix’s and cooking the products, the production lines throughout sweets ensuring the lines are getting the materials they need and dealing with escalations that arise. Taking ownership of the department and the wash‑up ensuring it is always left in the best position it can be. Sweets produce around 330,000 units a week of finished product but make around 500,000 units a week when you include all the WIP (work in progress) tasks which makes it unique within Apetio Trowbridge. You will manage a team of 15+ with the skill sets to achieve tasks; training and upskilling is a must for the team success.

Salary

£17.10 per hour + shift allowance + bonus + benefits.

Responsibilities

Essential

Desirable

Personal Qualities

Benefits

This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the skilled worker route as it does not meet the minimum requirements set out under the UK Immigration Rules.

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