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Our client is a leading and prestigious supplier of sustainable roots, potatoes, and organic vegetables, due to their continuous growth and development they are seeking to employ a Shift Leader for their Sutton Bridge site to start asap.
Reporting directly to the Production Manager.
Permanent position
Competitive salary offered dependent on experience.
Shift is 4on 4off – 6am – 6pm although Shift Leaders start slightly earlier at 5.30am.
Responsibility for ensuring operational excellence.
Key accountabilities include:
Conscientious and able to be a decision maker and work under pressure.
Excellent Communicator with the ability to plan ahead and organise.
Positive attitude and committed to continuous improvement (CI).
Confident in Microsoft Excel and Word.
Excellent accuracy and attention to detail in compiling and recording data.
Reduce packaging waste.
Optimising manufacturing functions.
Improving quality performance.
Improving yield performance, reducing waste.
Nurturing a high-performance workforce
Cost reduction/lean manufacturing/continuous improvement programmes.
Improving safety and wellbeing.
Delivery of labour budget for your respective areas.
Improving the engagement level of employees.
Delivery of departments KPI’s and own PDR objectives.
Audit ready at all times.
Key responsibilities:
Empower your team to provide input and suggestions, which lead to continuous improvement and development, promoting a customer first culture.
Ensure teamwork within the sites policies and procedures by leading by example.
Attend daily meetings with information on previous days performances.
Deliver year-on-year cost reductions in order to retain/ improve margins.
Work in collaboration with the Technical team to ensure departments [GMP] standards.
Optimise year-on-year quality improvements.
Attend site / group operational meetings as required.
Report department performance daily/weekly using the sites reporting systems/ Navision.
Formally communicate with team weekly/monthly to feedback team performance.
Ensure all H&S / HR (people) documentation is in place and regularly reviewed.
Responsible for the departments H&S and people (HR) agenda, promoting ownership and growing trust within the department.
Conduct investigations and disciplinary hearings up to final written warning.
Conduct Accident Investigations
Key performance indicators:
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Labour Productivity
Labour cost per tonne
Packs per minute
Tonnes per hour
Agency utilisation
Quality and delivery of annual PDR’s and 121’s, support and drive performance and responsibility, ensure you are fully trained for all tasks your team carry out.
CI savings
Total productivity
Operations safety performance (accident frequency & severity)
Operations quality performance
Other operational KPI’s as measured by the business.
No non-conformances in any external or internal audit
Ensure pre shift checks are carried out.
Ensure all new employees receive the necessary on the job training.
Ensure all holidays are planned, agreed, communicated.
Ensure all necessary input and supervision is carried out to correctly operate the Navision System.
Deliver a detailed shift handover.
Play an active part in Projects and their delivery.
Communication:
Actively communicate and seek feedback from colleagues and customers.
Communicate daily and weekly delivery performance levels to your team.
Play a participative part in Team Briefs.
Promote and be fully conversant with the client’s vision, values, and behaviours.
Be proactive in the provision of feedback and the delivery of ideas to develop and improve solutions relating to your department.
Personal Development / Growing Our Own:
Actively engage in personal development initiatives and training as required.
Lead & coach your team, ensuring that individuals are developed, and business objectives are clearly communicated.
Manage the continuous development of your direct reports and wider team to ensure a succession planning culture.
Fully engage in your own annual objective setting process
Ensure annual objectives are mapped out for your direct reports, measured, evaluated and discussed in line with Company standards via PDR's and 121's.
Constantly strive to meet the key business strategies under the 'Growing Our Own' umbrella:
Talented workforce delivering better results, increasing motivation for all.
Developing a “growth” and “performance” culture that is attractive to all colleagues and customers.
Long term succession planning to reduce business risk.
Nurturing key skills in areas that are more difficult to replace.
Actively work to reduce recruitment costs by retaining skills and reducing staff turnover.
Requirements for the role:
Supervising Teams experience
Food Manufacturing experience
Coaching and Leading experience
FMCG
CEQ Training
Good level of English and Maths
High level of computer literacy
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Outlook
Strong numeracy levels
Exemplary spelling and grammar
Additional Responsibilities / Skills
Health & Safety
Play a pivotal role in observing Company health, safety, and wellbeing rules.
Take all reasonable steps to promote health, safety, and wellbeing at work.
