Shift Lead

Müller UK & Ireland; Market Drayton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading dairy company is seeking a Shift Lead for the Butter Department in Market Drayton. In this role, you will coach and develop your team to meet targets and improve performance. Responsibilities include creating development plans, managing performance reviews, and implementing operational excellence initiatives. Ideally, you will have a Level 3 leadership qualification and be skilled in coaching and problem-solving. Offering a competitive salary, benefits include up to a 10% annual bonus and holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Up to 10% yearly bonus

Salary sacrifice Pension scheme

Health care cash plan

33 days holiday per year

Qualifications

• Ability to create and deliver development plans.
• Experience in coaching front line team members.
• Knowledge of operational excellence principles and tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage performance reviews, development, and coaching of the team.
• Collaborate with other teams to enhance business performance.
• Identify and implement operational excellence initiatives.

Skills

Coaching

Problem-solving

People management

Operational Excellence

Education

Level 3 Fit for Leadership Apprenticeship Programme or equivalent

Job description

Who we are

We're Müller UK & Ireland, a family-run dairy business and we're experts at what we do. Dairy is a key part of a healthy and balanced diet and we're super proud to help meet the nutritional needs of millions of people, every, single, day. To do this, our business has been split into two areas: Müller Milk & Ingredients (MMI) and Müller Yogurt & Desserts (MYD).

Join MMI and step into a culture that’s fast-paced and full of opportunity. With great benefits, exciting challenges, a dream team of people, this is your chance to make a real impact.

Over here, we’re processing enough milk to make 66 billion cups of tea every year. And we’re so much more than just milk. This is the place to come for cream, butter, milk drinks and ingredients products (a lot, we know), all made from milk from over 1,000 supplying farmers in Britain.

Why Müller?

Milk flows through everything at Müller – from farm to factory to fridge. But the true impact comes from our people, in each and every corner of the business, working hard and as a team to put smiles on faces everywhere, making each day delicious for our shoppers.

As the UK's most popular dairy brand, we’re always striving to make a real difference for our planet, our partners and our people, making sure we’re helping to create a more sustainable dairy future. We’re growing to keep up with the millions of people reaching for our branded and private label products on shelves everywhere. Join a culture full of pace that’s bold and entrepreneurial, with opportunities that are yours for the taking - and even enjoy every benefit and bonus to sweeten the deal.

We are currently recruiting for a Shift Lead within the Butter Department at Muller Market Drayton to enable the team to deliver targets and continuously improve performance by coaching and developing our people.

Shift pattern

4 on 4 off

Location

Market Drayton (Butter)

Responsibilities will include

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Ensures own activities are aligned to overall business objectives.
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues.
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business.
• Deep knowledge of Operational Excellence, coaching team on use of the principles and tools.

Key Tasks

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Creating succession pathways both up through and across the organisation.
• High level problem solving capability and facilitation skills.
• Go, look, see issues by visiting the workstation when called upon.
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Uses PDCA techniques to follow problems through to 100‑year fix in real time.
• Encourages others to seek out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own operational excellence projects.
• Owns and delivers operational excellence initiatives and is recognised for these.
• Looks and encourages others to find waste opportunities in everything that we do.

Learning and Development

• Site and department induction.
• Operational Excellence Advanced.
• All Dairy Technical Competency Workshops.
• Train the Trainer (inc coaching & facilitation).
• People Essentials.
• Developing Teams Using Pathfinder.
• Level 3 Fit for Leadership Apprenticeship Programme or equivalent Fit for Leadership modules.

Compensation and Benefits

In return for your contributions to our success, Müller offers a competitive salary package.

We value our people and are proud to offer a wide range of benefits:

• Up to 10% yearly bonus
• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme with Müller matching up to 4%
• Life Assurance at 4x your annual salary
• 33 days holiday per year
• Health care cash plan
• Access to 1000s of rewards via the Müller Rewards platform

Contact Details

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ