Production Shift Manager

E3 Recruitment; Lutterworth; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a Production Shift Manager with an industry-leading multinational firm. In this pivotal role, you will oversee all production activities, ensuring safety, quality, and budget adherence. Collaborating closely with the Plant Manager and other shift managers, you will drive performance improvements and foster a culture of accountability among your team. This position offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for accredited training and personal development. Join a respected manufacturer and play a key role in shaping the future of production excellence.

Benefits

8% Pension

25 Days Holiday

Comprehensive Employee Benefit Package

Accredited Training Opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in health and safety management within manufacturing.
• Strong leadership skills to manage and develop production teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all production activities, ensuring safety, quality, and output.
• Train and develop the production team while maintaining high standards.

Skills

Leadership

Health and Safety Management

Performance Improvement

Team Development

Communication

Education

IOSH Certification

Experience in ISO 45001

Tools

Google Workspace

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Production Shift Manager based close to the Lutterworth area in Leicestershire. The position is working with an internationally respected manufacturer who has multiple sites across the UK.

Responsible for all Production activities when on site (safety, quality, output and budgeted costs). This includes reporting KPIs, explaining performance to budget. When no other senior management is on site (‘out of hours') acts as Site Duty Holder (H&S, security, maintenance etc).

Pro-actively working with the Plant Manager, other Production Shift Managers and Maintenance to improve plant performance. Train, coach and develop staff and create shop floor responsibility and accountability for safety, quality, line performance and output.

What's in it for you as Production Shift Manager

Basic salary of £50,600 per annum plus a shift allowance totalling £55K. Included in this package is 8% pension, 25 days holiday, Comprehensive employee benefit package. Accredited training and personal development opportunities are also available within this position.

The role is 48 hours per week, 12-hour shifts, rotating Monday to Thursday, 6am till 6pm one week, then 6pm till 6am the following week.

Main Responsibilities of Production Shift Manager

• Sets and maintains high standards for Health and Safety, Quality, housekeeping, and output to plan.
• Training and development of the production team.
• Ensure work activities consistently meet quality, safety, cost, and delivery specifications.
• Provide feedback to team members during the working shift on the things most likely to maintain and improve performance. Promptly identify poor performance/unacceptable behaviour - and bring it directly to the attention of the team member concerned, ensuring that the correct policy/procedure is followed.
• Actively encourage team members to freely report actual and potential variations in quality.
• Undertake the performance reviews of team members and identify training needs and solutions.
• Make recommendations for improvements involving people and processes.
• Keep immediate Manager informed about activities, results, and achievements.
• Ensure information about problems and opportunities is clear, accurate and provided with appropriate urgency.
• Discuss and address quality concerns with the people concerned using the applicable policy/procedure.
• Take responsibility for and keep informed the Plant/Production Manager of any potential or actual conflicts between people.
• Lead team meetings.
• Organise and co-ordinate cover (Breaks, Absence, Holiday) within their shift (or area of plant) to ensure efficient, smooth, and continuous running to meet production plan priorities.

Must have competencies, skills and experience as Production Shift Manager

• Experience within Health and Safety, IOSH preferably within the ISO 45001 framework.
• Experienced in providing leadership and line management to the shift team.
• Ability to plan a variety of tasks and activities to benefit the line.
• Ability to work with other stakeholders in developing improved performances.

Desirable competencies, skills and experience of Production Shift Manager

• Use of google platform including google mail, google sheets and presentations.
• Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure/cost of poor quality within an ISO 9001 quality management system framework.
• Substantive experience in using CI lean techniques, Green Belt preferably.

This Production Shift Manager role offers a fantastic opportunity to join an industry-leading multinational business. For further information please contact.