Team Leader - ABN

Location: Walsingham, Norfolk, UK
Contract and Shift: Permanent, rotating 3-week shift pattern over 7 days (24-hour operation)

• Week 1 – Monday to Thursday, nights (6pm - 6am)


• Week 2 – Monday to Wednesday (6am - 6pm), Friday to Sunday, nights (6pm - 6am)


• Week 3 – Thursday to Sunday, days (6am - 6pm)


• Week 4 – Off shift

Are you...

• An experienced leader with a background in production, feed milling, or agriculture?


• Skilled in leading teams to achieve safety, efficiency, and quality?


• Ready to take on a challenging, hands-on role in a small, close-knit team within a well-established company?

If you answered yes, we want you on our team as our Production Team Leader!

As a Production Team Leader, you’ll play a critical leadership role on a shift team of 6.

You’ll be responsible for overseeing the mill production team, ensuring the safe, efficient, and consistent operation of the plant from raw material intake to finished product out loading.

You’ll lead by example to ensure a safe, productive environment that supports feed safety and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor and optimise the production process for maximum throughput.


• Direct the daily operations of your team, ensuring all tasks follow site and company protocols.


• Maintain food safety as a top priority across all operations.


• Provide daily performance oversight and distribute tasks to team members as needed.


• Promote a culture of engagement and improvement within the team.


• Consult with other departments to ensure customer requirements are met.


• Find and address equipment or plant issues in partnership with the Maintenance Team.


• Enforce adherence to all site and company Health and Safety regulations.


• Assist with stock takes, investigate variances, and uphold hygiene standards to meet audit requirements.


• Ensure compliance with HACCP systems as per company standards.

What You Bring:

• Proven leadership experience in a production, agricultural, or feed mill setting.


• Familiarity with process control computer systems.


• Good Health & Safety knowledge.


• Good communication and organisational skills.


• Experience with performance management and training.


• Problem-solving abilities and basic maintenance skills.


• Lean management or continuous improvement experience.


• Proficiency in basic Excel and report handling.

Why This Role?

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys a hands-on, varied role in a safe, collaborative environment. You’ll be an important part of a small team, making a direct impact on production goals and contributing to the growth of our business.

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary with annual review.


• Incentive bonus for everyone.


• Matched employer pension contribution up to 10%.


• Enhanced benefit for holiday, family, carer, adoption and parental leave.


• Employee Assistance Programme.


• AB Agri benefits portal offering discounts and vouchers at 100s of retailers.


• Discounts available on ABF sister company products.


• A company passionate about training, development and creating a truly inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.


• A wide range of flexible, opt-in benefits including dental, private medical and personal travel insurance using salary sacrifice.

About us:

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes:

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales:

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.