Production Team Leader - Morpeth
12 month fixed term contract
Structured career development + Annual performance related pay bonus and pay reviews + Share scheme + Competitive pension contributions + Range of flexible benefits and Corporate discounts, holiday buy/sell scheme, optional health care and life assurance + Free parking + Free hot and cold + Excellent parental benefits
What You’ll Be Part Of
Morpeth Operations is the only PET bottled water site within CCEP GB, capable of producing 54,000 bottles per hour and over 1 million bottles each day. With a close‑knit team of 38 colleagues across Manufacturing, QESH, and Engineering, Morpeth offers a highly supportive learning environment and fantastic opportunities to grow your career within the site, across GB, and into wider Pan‑European roles.
What You’ll Do
As Production Team Leader, you’ll lead a manufacturing team to deliver safe, efficient, high‑quality production performance. You will own both the people and line performance for your area, ensuring targets for output, quality, resource planning, and cost are met.
Key areas of responsibility include:
Operational Leadership
* Lead day‑to‑day running of production lines, ensuring output targets, yield, and CRS standards are achieved.
* Proactively manage planned and unplanned downtime, using real‑time monitoring systems and established routines to optimise performance and cost.
* Collaborate closely with Engineering, Upstream and QESH teams to improve plant reliability and productivity.
Materials & Syrup Management
* Oversee movement, usage, and quality of raw and packaging materials to meet production schedules.
* Escalate supply or quality issues promptly.
* Manage syrup production to meet utilisation and quality standards.
Cost & Resource Control
* Ensure all activities adhere to budget and cost‑control expectations.
* Optimise labour deployment in line with the core crew model, and build team flexibility to adapt to changing production needs.
* Manage resources responsibly — from labour to utilities, materials, and spare parts.
Maintenance & Standards
* Support timely completion of maintenance plans, including cleaning and CIP.
* Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental and risk‑assessment processes.
* Promote zero‑accident behaviours and maintain personal hygiene standards required in the food industry.
Quality & Continuous Improvement
* Ensure on‑line quality checks are completed to standard and results actioned.
* Lead basic incident investigations and embed learnings.
* Champion continuous improvement culture — sharing best practice, engaging your team in CI activity, and driving functional excellence.
Team Leadership
* Recruit, train, coach and develop your team, giving clear direction and support to help them perform at their best.
* Create a culture of cross‑functional, flexible working and role‑model behaviours aligned to site objectives.
* Manage performance, capability, absence, and team welfare in line with people processes.
* Ensure all changes relating to pay, overtime and well‑being are completed accurately and on time.
What We Expect From You
* Ideally degree‑level education or equivalent experience, with a background in engineering or manufacturing management.
* Demonstrated experience leading or supervising teams (typically 10+ people) within a production/manufacturing environment.
* Knowledge of labour planning, yield management, asset utilisation, raw‑materials inventory, and quality assurance.
* Understanding of HR processes and people‑management systems.
* Ability to coach others, lead through change, and drive high levels of performance and engagement.
The closing date for applications is 28/01/26. 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.