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Ready to lead from the front, motivating and managing a high performing production shift in a forward-thinking business?
Look no further! We are excited to be recruiting our next Shift Manager based out of our Ellesmere Port site, at Northwood!
Your leadership and management expertise from the FMCG industry will be utilised, providing daily opportunities to ensure safety first, excellent output, high quality, and efficiency are demonstrated on your shift, motivating and developing your team to achieve and exceed results.
Your shift pattern will be 4-on-4-off, working days (6am to 6pm) and night shifts (6pm to 6am).
About the RoleHow you will add value to Northwood:
You will lead from the front, motivating and mentoring a production team in achieving targets, maximising line efficiency and minimising cost. You will promote and foster safety and quality, managing daily SOR meetings to enable open communication and build a collaborative team environment.
We'll rely on you to manage daily staffing levels, ensuring crewing sheets are completed accurately, and communicating available resources to all departments.
To ensure your team are performing well, you will communicate daily and hourly line performance targets in a clear and professional manner, taking responsibility for outcomes.
To develop your team, you will utilise the performance management framework, ensuring all of your team are fully trained to perform their assigned tasks, and that all sign-off documentation is complete and verified.
It's essential that we are compliant, therefore a key part of your role will be ensuring legal and company regulations and compliance standards are adhered to. This includes H&S and Environmental standards, and liaising with the Quality team to ensure communication and adherence to QC procedures.
Departments you will often collaborate with include Engineering, Quality, Health and Safety, Stores, and HR, to ensure we're operating as efficiently as we can.
We are keen to speak with you if you have strong experience within an FMCG production/manufacturing environment in a team leadership capacity (e.g. Shift Manager, Team Leader, Production Manager, Line Manager, or similar).
Apply today, and we'll look forward to speaking with you regarding your Northwood career!
Benefits
Company pension
Life assurance
Free company products
Free on-site parking
Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
Free early access to pay scheme
Salary sacrifice schemes
Employee referral scheme
Requirements
Experience and skills you will bring:
Leading and mentoring a team of at least 20 people
TPM/Lean manufacturing knowledge and application
Proven experience within a fast-paced FMCG manufacturing environment
Critical thinking, coupled with efficient problem-solving skills
Experience in implementing CI initiatives
Proactive with excellent time-management skills
Big-picture mindset, enabling you to relate events, processes and procedures to the wider business mission and purpose
Ideally, you will hold qualifications in people management, and health and safety
Recruitment Process
Should you be shortlisted, you will receive an email from TalentCentral SHL with an invitation to complete our candidate assessment. This will ensure we can accurately evaluate your competencies and skills.
If you require any adjustments to complete the online assessment, please get in touch
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