Shift Leader

Biffa; Aldridge; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Career development

Generous pension

Medical and dental scheme

Discounts on retail and leisure

Holiday and travel discounts

Bike to work

Plus much more...

Job summary

Biffa is seeking a Shift Leader to oversee the Plastics Recycling Facility (PRF) as a 24/7 operation. The role includes coordinating 12-hour day and night shifts (7:00–19:00 days; 19:00–07:00 nights) on a 4 on/4 off pattern, ensuring health, safety and environmental compliance, and driving continuous productivity improvements.

The Shift Leader will manage staffing, maintain high housekeeping, and provide detailed operation records to support maintenance and optimisation efforts at the site.

Qualifications

• Experience as Shift Supervisor or similar responsibility in waste management.
• Experience managing people and health & safety in a unionised, multi-shift environment.
• Understanding of the waste industry and relevant laws.
• Proven track record of meeting defined service delivery KPIs.
• Ability to communicate with conviction and plan with precision.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and control all resources (people, equipment, stock) to maximise productivity and plant performance.
• Ensure productivity and availability meet defined standards while driving cost control and improvements.
• Manage material flow to minimise downtimes and optimise throughput.
• Maintain accurate records of plant operations, settings and stoppages; identify causes of downtime.
• Support engineering in planned maintenance, inspections and cleaning to minimise downtime.
• Demonstrate strong man-management skills in a demanding environment.

Skills

Shift supervision

People management

Health and safety

Communication

Continuous improvement

Job description

Help us make a difference as a Shift Leader.

Hours: 40.25 hours per week, working a 4 on / 4 off shift pattern.

Shift Pattern:

• Week 1: 07:00 – 19:00 (Days)

• Week 2: 19:00 – 07:00 (Nights)

Salary: £42,110 per annum.

A quick look at the role.

The Shift Leader will efficiently organise and supervise the operation of the PRF (Plastics Recycling Facility) which will be a 24/7 operation (4 days on/off alternating 12 hour day and night 7:00 - 7:00), ensuring health & safety and environmental compliance, whilst showing continuous improvement in productivity, plant availability and the requirements of sub-products (Glass Cans Plastics ) produced in accordance with the site licences.

Your core responsibilities.

• Monitoring and controlling all resource within the plant in terms of people and equipment, including stock control, maintaining a high level of housekeeping in all areas, to maximise operational productivity, plant availability and plant performance.
• Ensuring productivity and availability exceeds minimum defined standards in terms of tons processed per hour and quality remains above the minimum standard required during the process, whilst driving best practice and continuous improvement in cost control and processing operations.
• Controlling the material which flows into and out of the process to ensure downtimes are minimised.
• Providing accurate and detailed records of all plant operations, settings and stoppages and to attribute causes to all unplanned downtime.
• Supporting the engineering functioning in developing a programme of planned preventative maintenance, inspection and cleaning to minimise downtime and provide records of recurrent faulting.
• Must have good man management skills and be able to stay focussed in a tough and demanding environment.

Our essential requirements:

• Experience as Shift Supervisor or position of similar responsibility ideally in waste management.
• Experience of people and health and safety management within a unionised and multi-shift environment.
• Understanding of the waste industry and relevant laws.
• Proven track record of working to clearly defined service delivery KPI’s
• The ability to communicate with conviction, plan with precision and, most importantly, Work well with others.

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.

• Competitive salary
• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Medical and dental scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Plus much more...

Changing the way the world thinks about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.