Shift Manager (Thursday-Sunday Nights)

WEPA; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

WEPA is seeking a Production Shift Manager to oversee the converting floor, lead a team, and ensure safety, quality, and efficiency on a Thursday–Sunday night shift (7:00 PM–7:00 AM). The role requires proven paper converting knowledge and strong leadership to drive continuous improvement across production targets and performance metrics.

You will coordinate with support functions, manage resources, and uphold health and safety standards while aiming to exceed productivity and quality goals in a

Qualifications

• Proven experience in the paper converting industry.
• 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.

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 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
• 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

Skills

Leadership

People management

Paper converting

Machinery knowledge

Problem solving

Fast-paced environment

Job description

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?

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?

Job Overview

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 Night Shift (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM)

About Us

We are WEPA, a forward-thinking European family business with a clear sense of purpose and high standards for our own conduct.

We have been developing, manufacturing and distributing sustainable hygiene papers for generations, thus contributing each and every day to the health, wellbeing and quality of life of millions of people across Europe.

What makes us special: we bring together business strength with responsibility – for our customers, for the environment, and above all for the people who work at WEPA. Across 15 sites in Europe, approximately 4,500 employees design and develop innovative solutions for everyday hygiene ranging from toilet paper and towel paper to tissues, utilising efficiency, sustainability and high quality standards. In doing so we adopt a long-term perspective, invest consistently in sustainable technologies and continuously evolve our company – together with the people who make WEPA what it is.