Team Leader – Making

The Company: Whittaker’s is New Zealand’s biggest chocolate manufacturer and has won New Zealand’s ‘Most Trusted Brand’ 14 times in a row. They live by the belief that ‘best is always better’, insisting on using only the finest ingredients, the best methods, most precise machinery, and the best people to keep making good honest chocolate.

 
The Opportunity: We’re looking for a Team Leader to run day-to-day operations in the Making team, overseeing a team of around 30 direct reports. You’ll be on the floor leading shifts, keeping roasting, refining, and production processes moving, and making sure product goes out safely, efficiently and to spec. This isn’t a background role. You own your shift’s performance and outcomes, and you’re the one people come to when something needs sorting – whether that’s a process issue, a resourcing gap, or quality issue.

Day to day, you will: