Manufacturing Night Shift Manager

Our client has a permanent vacancy for a Manufacturing Shift Manager - Nights (6pm - 6am x 3 nights weekly rota). This role is responsible for managing the shifts manufacturing process and production meeting all cost, quality, delivery and safety targets set by the Company, efficiently and consistently. The Manufacturing Shift Manager drives performance, productivity improvements and develops both machine and staff utilisation lowering the company’s cost per unit (CPU).
Essential Job Duties:
* Effectively manage all operations to ensure KPI’s targets and business objectives are met and maintained within production, quality, cost, delivery.
* Provide leadership and direction to all Manufacturing Shift Team Leaders and operatives in all aspects of the manufacturing operation.
* Ensure operations are conducted in compliance with global quality specifications, whilst meeting customer SLA’s.
* Organise and facilitate daily Team Leader meetings, ensuring effective and relevant communications throughout all areas of responsibility, prioritising workloads and ensuring maximum process efficiency
* Review and develop continuous improvement, leading and participating in working parties to involve and engage staff, with an aim to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Have full involvement in their implementation and success minimising downtime while increasing UPLH.
* Responsible for yield improvement & non value-added process reduction
* Initiate and implement best practice process, techniques and drive lean manufacturing and 5S
* Create innovative solutions to problems and opportunities to increase productivity
* Work alongside the other 3 Manufacturing Shift Managers to ensure ‘4 shift manufacturing consistency’, correct manning levels, holiday cover where applicable and identify cross functional training needs for development of all shop floor staff and Team Leaders, completing training records to the required standard.
* Ensure there is an appropriate level of multi-skilled colleagues to perform tasks in an effective and efficient manner.
* Develop others to support the site talent and succession plan
* Organising shift cover when required, providing flexible working requirements to achieve KPI’s and carry out return to work discussions with team members returning from sickness
* Continually look to develop staff within the section to ensure that staff are fully utilising their skills
* Update Manufacturing Shift Team Leaders on required targets / rates, and quality checks, providing training and feedback, acting on poor performance where required.
* Measurement of Quality, Cost, Delivery and People and produce statistic reports
* Accurately complete full duty handover to the next Manufacturing Shift Manager – days to nights and nights to days.
* Ensure all activities on site are carried out in a safe manner, in line with policies, ensuring that all Health, Safety and Environmental statutory requirements are met
* Encouraging a total safety culture using observation and feedback techniques, and implementing improvements.
* Ensure consistency in the application of the companies disciplinary, grievance and absence procedures
* Ensure appraisals and reviews are effectively carried out with staff.
* Record accident information as required, followed by, completing any incident reports; carrying out follow-up investigations
Skills:
Good interpersonal, leadership and motivation skills
Intermediate level excel
Experience working in a FMCG environment or any exposure of fast-paced manufacturing operation
Good knowledge of Continuous improvement & the Lean Principles
Good awareness of supply chain
Ability to delegate
Possess safety qualification preferable IOSH or NEBOSH
Be computer literate
Excellent communicational skills are required at all levels
Experience:
At least 5 years’ experience as a Manufacturing Shift Manager or similar position
At least 5 years’ experience working with a Warehouse / Production / Distribution Management System
At least 5 years’ warehouse experience in a fast paced, high volume environment
Due to the large number of responses we receive it is not always possible to respond to every application straight away. Should your skills and experience be a match for this role, or any other vacancy we may have, we will normally contact you within 72 hours of receiving your application. If you wish to apply for further roles please do so