Night Shift Production Supervisor

The Sterling Choice; Greater Lincolnshire; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sterling Choice is recruiting two Production Supervisors to take ownership of an area of around 20-35 people on permanent nights in North Lincolnshire. You’ll be on the floor, leading a fast-moving food manufacturing line from 10pm to 6am and ensuring productivity stays on plan with safety and quality in sight.

You’ll develop the operators beneath you, drive improvements, and tackle problems before they grow.

Qualifications

• You’ll need to have managed people in a manufacturing environment and ideally in food manufacturing.
• Possible titles include Production Supervisor, Area Leader, Team Leader, Shift Supervisor or Area Manager.
• Ability to manage 20-35 people in a fast-moving food factory, including night shifts.
• There is some administrative reporting (line performance, returns to works).

Responsibilities

• Keep the line moving and manage a 20-35 person team on nights.
• Deal with problems before they become bigger issues while maintaining quality and safety.
• Develop the operators beneath you and drive improvements to standards.
• Handle line performance reporting and admin as required.

Skills

People management

Manufacturing experience

Food manufacturing experience

Job description

No traffic. Fewer meetings. Less noise from people asking for another spreadsheet.

Just production.

And there’s plenty of that here.

Four lines running through the night. Around 100 people on shift. Fast-paced food manufacturing where hitting the plan actually matters.

I’m recruiting two Production Supervisors to take ownership of an area of around 20-35 people.

One works Monday-Friday, 10pm-6am.

The other works Sunday-Thursday, 10pm-6am.

This isn’t a clipboard-and-watch-from-a-distance type of job.

You’ll be on the floor.

Keeping the line moving. Managing the team. Dealing with problems before they become bigger problems. Making sure productivity is where it needs to be without quality or safety disappearing out the window.

And they don’t want someone who simply inherits an area and keeps it ticking over.

They want someone with a bit of drive.

Develop the operators beneath you. Get more from the line. Improve standards. Question why something keeps going wrong rather than accepting that "it’s always been like that."

There’s some admin.

Of course there is.

Line performance. Return to Works. The usual reporting.

But the majority of your time is spent where a Production Supervisor should probably be.

In production.

You’ll need to have managed people in a manufacturing environment before and, ideally, that experience will have been within food manufacturing.

You might currently be called a Production Supervisor, Area Leader, Team Leader, Shift Supervisor or Area Manager.

The title isn’t particularly important.

Being able to manage 20-35 people in a fast-moving food factory at 2am is.

North Lincolnshire.

Permanent nights.