Shift Manager

WEPA; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A European family business is seeking a Production Shift Manager in Blackburn. In this dynamic role, you will oversee the operations of the converting floor during your shift, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency. The ideal candidate should have proven experience in the paper converting industry, strong leadership skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. This position offers a night shift schedule of Thursday to Sunday with 44 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in the paper converting industry.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operations during assigned shifts.
• Lead a team of production employees to meet targets.
• Ensure safety, quality, and efficiency standards are met.

Skills

Leadership skills

Problem-solving abilities

Knowledge of converting machinery

Ability to work in fast-paced environments

Job description

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Job Description

Would you like to advance your career and work in a dynamic environment? Join a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

We are seeking a Production Shift Manager with proven paper converting knowledge and experience to join our team manufacturing hygiene paper products This is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing production operations during your shift, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency targets are consistently.

As a Shift Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the converting floor during your assigned shift. You will lead a team of production employees, ensuring targets are met while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency

Responsibilities

• Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient workplace is maintained at all times
• Achieve the required company quality standards ensuring both internal and external customer satisfaction
• Ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored and targets achieved
• Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications
• Communicate with the teams by utilising the visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement
• Undertake performance management responsibility for team members, conducting appraisals and giving direction to aid good performance
• Ensure safe working practices are maintained and 'Standard Operations' adhered to
• Ensure that non-conformance is challenged and countermeasures are agreed and implemented
• Lead and motivate the team to create a high-performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced
• Strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis
• Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians
• Ensure housekeeping is kept to a high standard

People Management

• Manage manpower resource effectively maximising keys skills in the right areas
• Drive company Absence Control Procedures to ensure maximum attendance levels
• Manage time and attendance within Company procedures
• Motivate and coach the team to operational success
• Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance
• Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviours expected of them
• Ensure KPIs are met by working to the overall plan, including management of, and reporting
• Provide product expertise within team, and respond to operator queries
• Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, the Company Handbook, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in the paper converting industry (essential).
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Knowledge of converting machinery and processes.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Shift Pattern

Thursday - Sunday Nightshift - 44 Hours per week

7pm - 7am

About Us

The WEPA Group is a future-oriented European family business specialising in the production and distribution of sustainable hygiene paper. WEPA offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that provide a safe feeling of hygiene and contribute daily to the well-being of millions of people. With around 4,300 employees, the WEPA Group manufactures hygiene products such as toilet paper, paper towels, tissues and napkins at 14 European sites.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years. We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We are convinced of one thing:

our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.