Shift Manager (Thursday-Sunday Nights)

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)