Production Shift Manager

Quickslide Ltd; Brighouse; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A manufacturing company in Brighouse is seeking a Production Shift Manager to oversee production operations and manage multiple teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong supervisory background and excellent decision-making skills. Responsibilities include ensuring safety standards are met, managing stock levels, and conducting performance reviews. This full-time, permanent position offers opportunities for continuous improvement and team leadership.

Qualifications

• Strong supervisory background and experience managing multiple teams.
• Good people management techniques with a continuous improvement mindset.
• First Aid trained or willing to become a First Aider.

Responsibilities

• Manage production output for the shift across multiple departments.
• Ensure staff health and safety following SOPs.
• Conduct performance reviews and manage staff training.

Skills

Excellent decision-making skills

Excellent communicator

Excellent product knowledge

Strong influencing skills

Self-motivated

Target driven

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

We currently have a vacancy for a Production Shift Manager on a full-time permanent basis. The successful candidate must have a strong supervisory background, experience of managing multiple teams, demonstrate good people management techniques, with a continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

• Manage production output for the shift potentially across multiple departments, ensure daily targets are achieved by the team
• Manage stock levels within the department
• Health & Safety Management; ensure that staff are working safely in line with SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and wearing required PPE where required
• Ensure production quality is to the highest standard, quality audits/remake management
• Planning daily schedules, organising staff resourcing and escalating any issues that may arise, when required
• Addressing key issues such as downtime making sure this is valid.
• Responsible for informing and expediting critical data. This will cover labour, machines and materials as well as line balancing, reporting any issues to your line manager.
• Be able to give live reports on achievements/outputs and deviations from required goals and targets
• Carrying out performance reviews with staff and returns to works, ensuring that any absence issues are reported to supervisors on a daily basis
• Attend daily production and shift handover meetings, escalating any urgent orders checking 1st & 2nd runs
• Managing the training matrix, carryout regular reviews, arranging cross training to ensure a fully flexible workforce
• Lead by example exhibit the correct behaviours and display the correct attitude
• Carry out any other reasonable management requests
• Review systems/processes to achieve continuous improvement in your department

The Necessary Skills, Qualifications And Experience Include

• Excellent and timely decision-making skills
• Independent problem solver
• Excellent communicator at all levels
• Excellent product knowledge of all areas in your production area
• Demonstrate good people management techniques in motivation, development and communication.
• Computer literate Microsoft Office
• Good organisational skills
• Strong influencing skills
• Self- Motivated
• Target driven
• First Aid trained or willing to become a First Aider