Relief Night Shift Manager

Ornua; Nantwich; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading dairy production company in Nantwich seeks a Relief Shift Manager (Nights) to oversee production lines, ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards. The ideal candidate should possess Food Hygiene Level 2 and have leadership experience in a food manufacturing environment. This part-time role involves managing a team, conducting quality checks, and maintaining production efficiency. Join a mission-driven organization focused on growth and innovation, and help shape the future of dairy production.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Food Hygiene Level 2 preferably Level 3.
• Experience in leadership within a food manufacturing environment.
• Proven people management skills including recruiting and training.

Responsibilities

• Run the shift in the absence of the Shift Manager.
• Complete daily shift reports.
• Ensure quality checks and adherence to safety procedures.

Skills

Food Hygiene Level 2

Leadership experience in food manufacturing

People management experience

Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation

Written and spoken English

Knowledge of MS Office and food manufacturing software

Tools

M3 Redzone

Job description

Overview

Relief Shift Manager (Nights)

Location: Nantwich Ornua Ingredients - Main Rd Worleston Nantwich CW5 6DN.

Hourly Rate: 17.60 per hour

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday - 22:00 to 06:00

Ornua (meaning new gold) is Ireland's largest exporter of Irish dairy products proudly bringing the unique taste of Irish dairy to the world for over 55 years.

Are you a Shift Manager looking for the challenge of taking a mission driven organisation to its next level of success? Ornua is actively seeking a Shift Manager to join Ornua Ingredients UK as we continue our growth trajectory.

The Relief Shift Manager will play a key role in:

• Fully running the shift in the absence of the Shift Manager, attending meetings and taking actions.
• Completing daily shift reports.
• Carrying out return-to-work (RTW) and informal/disciplinary hearings.
• Investigation and completion of work-related accidents.
• Leading the development of improvements and line effectiveness of operations & Production through cross-functional performance improvement initiatives and development of operational processes.
• Ensuring all employees adhere to Quality, Hygiene and Health & Safety policies & procedures, and driving near-miss and good-catch cards.
• Ensuring paperwork accurately records production activity.
• Monitoring and driving quality, hygiene and GMP KPIs.
• Monitoring production lines for faults and improvements; reporting to the Shift Manager/Engineer as required and capturing on Redzone.
• Monitoring and driving production output against daily planned targets.
• Ensuring quality checks are performed routinely and policies & procedures are adhered to.
• Raising non-conformances and closing assigned non-conformances in a timely manner.
• Working with the Shift Manager and Site Trainer to ensure new staff induction and ongoing training, identifying gaps in training and upskilling requirements of the production team.
• Material area checks and investigations.
• Attending and investigating daily material variances meetings.
• Leading daily huddles on lines.
• Control of labour/skills using shift planned rota.
• On occasions required on-line and cover break cover.

Why Ornua

• Ornua operates from 10 business units worldwide including 16 production facilities with sales and marketing teams across the globe.
• The Group is structured across two divisions: Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients.
• Ornua Foods is responsible for marketing and sales of Ornua’s consumer brands including Kerrygold and Pilgrims Choice.
• Our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business as a purpose and values-led organisation creating value for Irish dairy farming families.
• Our values encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care and Achieve Great Things Together.
• We invest in our people and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Career progression including global mobility opportunities.
• Comprehensive benefits with regional specific offerings.

Why This Role Is Valuable

The Shift Manager will oversee the running of the production lines, ensuring production targets and efficiencies are achieved against planned production and line running speeds.

What You Bring To The Role

• Food Hygiene Level 2 preferably Level 3
• Leadership experience within a food manufacturing environment
• People management experience including recruiting, managing, motivating and training staff
• In-depth knowledge of Health & Safety and Technical legislation / procedures / SOPs
• Demonstrated level of spoken and written English
• Knowledge of MS Office and food manufacturing software e.g. M3 Redzone

Our interview process is designed to be thorough yet supportive. This process includes a first stage via Teams to understand your skills and experiences and, if successful, a second stage face-to-face interview to build upon the first stage and give you insight into Ornua and the environment you will be working in.

Ornua has ambitious growth plans and we are building a team to help enable and accelerate that growth. We are looking for people who share our values, are curious, forward-looking, take ownership and work together to build a future for themselves and Ornua.

Would you like to make an impact?

To learn more please visit Ornua at

Ornua values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. We strongly encourage women and other underrepresented groups to apply. Your unique perspectives are highly valued and will contribute to the company’s continued success. Join us in shaping a more innovative, inclusive and sustainable future.

O R N U A C O M P E T E N C I E S:

• Ownership — Includes: Action Focus, Empowerment, Accountability & Quality, Tenacity, Sustainable Growth, Managing Performance
• Be Our True Selves — Includes: Listening, Impact, Informing, Honesty, Psychological Safety, Adapting Communication Style, Influencing Leadership Style
• Achieve Great Things Together — Includes: Working Together, Co-operating, Active Collaboration, Encouraging Others, Relationship Building, Team Effectiveness

Required Experience:

Manager

Key Skills

Restaurant Experience, Kitchen Experience, Inventory Control, Hospitality Experience, Dayforce, Lean Six Sigma, Management Experience, Facilities Management, Warehouse Experience, Supervising Experience, Restaurant Management, Commercial Cleaning

Employment Type : Part-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1